GTA Online's map too small? Madness! Well, yes, that's what we would have said too... three years ago. When GTA 5 launched way back in 2013, the size of its map was a wonder to behold. The city on its own was pretty sizeable, and truly felt like a bonafide metropolis, and a vast wilderness stretched northward with a handful of other settlements and all kinds of interesting locations and secret places scattered around.
Sure, GTA 5 didn't have the biggest map out there, but it did have the most vibrant and detailed map — and let's face it, it was among the biggest. Even today, players are still discovering all kinds of little details lovingly left behind by the developers who crafted this vast virtual world, all of whom no doubt wanted to leave a personal mark behind.
Fast forward three years, and GTA Online has been expanded content-wise with 26 DLCs. That's right folks, Rockstar has supplied the players of their game with 26 individual pieces of free updates — feel free to remember that before you call them greedy. Some of those updates were minor, some were major and some were absolutely groundbreaking. However, all of them added something to GTA Online.
Joining a lobby today will look a lot different from three years ago. Yachts will line the shoreline, all-new kinds of events will spawn when roaming in Freemode, the decadent will be flying around in golden jets, biker gangs will ride about in formation and some Hydra griefer will probably be hounding an unlucky CEO trying to sell his or her crates in peace.
GTA Online has changed immensely since launch back in 2013, and while by virtue of the way game development works Rockstar probably had some kind of DLC roadmap planned out pre-launch, they couldn't have planned too far ahead in terms of updates. At one point, GTA Online started down a path the developers couldn't have envisioned before the title went live.
