It was hard to get it tho, me and my friend used to play all day at summer vacation (gta launch was at summer here, in the southern hemisphere) and he only was able to get it after a hacker gave him money
I remember watching my brother play (because I was like 6) and seeing someone drive past in a zentorno and being amazed. The simpler times man. What I would give to go back and spend time with my brother again
Thankfully you can make more money nowadays. The Nightclub can generate 50K per day in the game, not per-day in real-time. Add in other businesses that generate decent income helps too. Back then it was painful to generate money when you go around all over state for Gerald who paid you $7000. lol
That is what me and my friends do bc one time we lost almost a mil on some cars we were trying to get to a buyer because someone threw a sticky bomb onto us. After we respawned we just kept blowing the person up until they logged off.
Rooftop rumble will forever hold a special place in my heart. Some honourable mentions include A titan of a job Coveted Meth’d up Used to love playing these back in the day
2015 was the best year of GTA online for me man. Used to play on PS3 with my friends which I made from a crew i joined back then. It was Summer vacation time and we used have full 16 player sessions and just do fun and random stuff along with game modes like Races and TDMs. We used to play for the entire day, from 12 am to 6am then sleep for a while, wake up, do your stuff then get back online around 2 - 3 pm and play till 6pm. Then again start at 12 am. Best time ever! Dope days, chill nights!
Thanks for mentioning the Zentorno, before the original heists and the Kuruma that used to be the closest to an armored light, fast vehicle. Not being able to be shot from behind was huge
There was a time when the rhino tank didn’t have a indicator on the radar, so it just look like a normal blip. Those times when you turned a corner and saw a tank was terrifying. …// insert metal gear alert sound
The money glitches in 2013 were insane. You could sell your car, change lobbies, and the car would respawn. Not to mention that time everyone on consoles got billions of dollars from modders. Lasted about a month before Rockstar reset everybody to $500,000. Anyone else remember that one? Lol. I still have all the vehicles I bought with that.
I remember slightly differently, People were losing apartments and Cars so everyone was granted 500,000 at the time is what I remember. Around Christmas people were getting modded money put on their accounts just by being in the lobby and eventually most of that money was removed but you were still left with like a million or so. That’s just how I remember it
There was that method, but there was also the way simpler and faster method. -Enter LSC -"Sell vehicle" -Immediately hit pause -scroll to xbox/ps game store (as fast as you can) -unpause -You'd be put back outside and could repeat as many times as you liked. Literally the easiest money glitch the game has ever had. No loading screens, no clouds, no second person, nothing besides like 5 steps that took 10 seconds? Good ol days😂
@@jakeb7525 that was a classic glitch but my all time favorite was the frozen money glitch. Buy everything you need on character 1 then load up your second character on cars you can sell. Slowly sell the cars over time and you are set.
@@jakeb7525 No, the easiest glitch by far would be the Lester Plane glitch. Drive to the garage by LSIA, request a plane, then drive to where the plane would spawn and park. Since the plane wouldn't spawn in, you would get $1000 every few seconds. That was also back when putting a rubberband on your controller still worked. Now you get kicked if you do that. Made about $15mil over night just by setting it up at my grandparents and then going home and driving back the next day lol. No repeating anything, or having to scroll through any menus at any certain speed. It was so easy. I was struggling hard before that glitch happened. Spent many, many hours grinding Air Cargo in a solo-NAT lobby just to be able to afford a Mk2 so that I can redo all of it again but quicker lol. Was saving up for the B11 when Lester came through.
@@jarvismane6700 While yes, that was an easy glitch, it also wasn't as effective as you're saying. Believe me, I used to follow all sorts of glitches, for anything and everything. Whether I used them or not to bs on a secondary, that was a toss up. But the lester plane one was only really a good starter way for money. If you had money, had let's say the adder, fully customized, your profits were considerably higher per minute/hour. No, it wasn't an afk type glitch, but you could spend 15 minutes, or more if you wanted, and youd make more money, and faster.
Honestly I hate gta online nowadays I used to love the simplicity of it now there’s way too much going on. Casual players have no way of defending themselves or owning anything good without paying real life money. Was so much better back in the day I miss the rhino tanks and the lazer jet days. The way they completely ignored single player makes me hate it even more. They’ve milked online for 10 years now can’t wait for gta 6. Hopefully they care about single player and actually plan what they’re gonna do with the online instead of random updates and changing the entire game.
I'm 43 and I have owned and played all the GTA games, bought this when it first dropped. I played it all the time with a friend and had the best time. I got a call one day from his friend saying he took his life. I couldn't play GTA 5 no more because of the memories we had on this game. So I haven't played it since the Xbox 360. Last month I bought it from my new Xbox,and now I'm hooked. What a big difference from them to now. I love this game. Thank you TGG! YOU took me from rags to riches literally. Gg
I have a similar story. I guy I used to play bo1 with died due to a bench press bar crushing his throat. That was devastating and couldn’t play bo1 for awhile.
I’ve play the game for 10 years and only took off 6 months from the game once so I haven’t missed a single thing about the game in 10 in half Years and yet still playing the game 😁
@@AbolfazlShiraziI havent played quite as consistently as that guy. But i have played since pc release and have earned nearly 1 billion legit and i am rank 400ish.
The most underrated thing about old GTA is the fact that normal early activities were still playable and you could easily play full lobby Deathmatches, Captures, LTS, Survivals and simple stuff like that. Nowadays nobody plays deathmatches for example and everyone is just grinding heists and missions. All the focus is on the grind and the freemode while back in the day a good race or deathmatch was the highlight of the day. Rockstar is appealing to a different type of player nowadays which values fake money and grinding over simple fun.
I have the weirdest relationship with gta online. I grinded tf out of it, then quit around 2017 due to the steep increase in prices. I refused to play until recently (October 2022) and you have helped me so much. It’s crazy how much the game has changed and I’m still trying to catch up 😂
@@MrBlaze256 Personally for me that would just take all the fun out of the game. Like what's the point of playing anymore if you just own everything and never have to do missions and work for anything ever again?
Brings me the old times I remember the tanks was grieving and I hop on bicycle jump on the tank and though sticky bombs and blow the tank up and I was in my boxers lol good times
Definitely want to see a part 2. It’s incredible how far the game has come. You really didn’t have much back in the day. Can’t believe its almost been 10 years!
Honestly it was way better after like 2 years in. The online aspect was ruined by like 2017 by all the teenagers playing and Rockstar adding way too overpowered things and way too many options for people imo.
We had much imo, ppl was actually played survival, death matches, racing, playing golf or missions. Now everyone is killing another on flying motorbike 🙄
About the Mile High Club: in story mode one of the workers comments that it's a government contract and for that reason the constructors can take as much time as they want, because they're getting paid anyway. That's why it never gets finished.
@@Mohamed10226 even if we don't get to bring our money with us. Allowing us to bring out characters and our outfits and weapons over would be a good compensation. If we're gonna have to start at the bottom of the ladder again, at least let us have a little headstart. I hope there's businesses to buy from day one at least, even if it's just a cargo warehouse to get us started
Back when all my friends were still online, the only way to properly earn money was doing heists and buddying up with people. When flying bikes didn't exist and the most OP thing was the Rhino Tank. But now I always play gta online on my own and I grind air freight cargo. Time to time I look at my friends list to see 1-2 people online playing some other games out of my entire 60+ friends list.
I started to play gta online 2014/2015 on xbox 360. 2019 i went over to Xbox one. I couldn't transfer my character so i started to grind from the grind
Wish I could wake up and once more, live a Saturday morning back in 2015, still a kid in my parents house, eat some cereal, and play Gta online when it was in its prime
You forgot to mention that shark cards weren’t a thing either when it first came out. I remember grinding for weeks to save up money to buy the adder, when it was still the most expensive car, good times
I know things have to change and progress, but I will always prefer the days with GTAO was that street level crime setting as you mention. I recall playing with constantly with this random who would pop up each night. We never chatted but always seemed to work well together. One of the things we liked to do was put £10k bounties on each other, hop on the train and ride the map, fighting off whoever came hunting. Try that these days and within a few seconds there's a rocket up your ass!. I miss those days. Sadly Rockstar saw the big bucks and chased the dollar, increasing prices, reducing payouts, removing missions etc, all to encourage shark cards. I feel it's gone so far away from what it was that I don't see GTA6 Online being any different and it too focused on the super expensive crazy over the top missions, with mega expensive things to purchase.
The problem is that they would add stuff but not balance it. The game was very balanced in 2013 to 15. And some aspects of the game they completely threw away. All for the sake of money. If they want to make it as good as it was, balance all of it out. Make levels matter again. Make counters to all vehicles/ equipment. Bf4 doses a good job of it. Make things matter a bit more.
Man I remember back in 2013-2014 Roof Top Rumble had a little thing where all u had to do was climb the wall there the street is and over look the inside of the parking garage and blow everything up and bam mission complete
2013 was terrible, spending hours in loading screens going from contact mission to contact mission to get money Having the rooftop rumble playlist was considered a money exploit back then
I miss the old times where we fought overpowered rhino tank griefer and even lazer griefer (pre-nerf). Things were simple back then where we hard to make money from time to time until rooftop rumble mission where it was easy to makes money with that mission
Nerfing vehicle, raising prices for vehicles, tasking away over 300 cars….sell prices selling for less, ridiculous prices for vehicles and many more is the worst what rockstar has done for GTAO
I miss when the Kuruma was the best griefing option. Not many players wanted to blow up a car so you could drive around shooting people randomly and people would try their best to shoot you through the windows without much luck
I stopped playing in 2017 a few months after the import/export update. I started playing again on ps5 on a new account 2 months ago and was surprised by all the new businesses that had been added since. Also noticed how much inflation hit Los Santos but the money methods are so much better now.
I think 2018 was the best year for me personally. I had just gotten an Xbox One and its copy of GTA 5 at the beginning of summer break, and I had just discovered the various DOJRP content creators on RU-vid. I remember staying up all night and sleeping all day doing the Doomsday Heists and watching Bay Area Buggs and just not having a care in the world. I'd give anything to go back to that time lmao
Got this game day one, still actively playing today lol, all the people I played with along the way have all eventually stopped playing. Made the best memories tho 😂
Stood in line until midnight to get this on Xbox 360. The trailer came out a year before the game was released. Only the OG players understand the money making struggle. Roof top rumble and high priority case on replay.
I didn't even know Rooftop Rumble was an option back then lol. I used to make $3000 an hour from driving around looking for Gruppe 6 trucks and robbing convenience stores.
I remember my 360 era, when we did just random car meets on the map with full random lobby, no griefers, we all had cars like Carbonizzare, Rapid GT, Vacca, etc. I was browsing streets with my dark blue metallic Vigero! I miss those times, it was all about fun. Now it's all hackers and griefers... can't enjoy anymore with random people. Griefers were back then too, but it was like... a guy with a tank came and blew off all our cars and we tried to destroy him. We bullied him to leave the session. What a time that was.
I have played for about seven months I'm relatively new to GTA online but I know about the GTA franchise since I was a kid and I'm amazed by how far it has come from Vice City, the first game I ever played
It really was better back then... I loved to slowly work my way to criminal riches and fame. Today everybody is a godfather-type figure in only a couple of days
I met one of my best friends in gta. Back in 2013, I met my friend and we play together till this day and we finally met each other in 2022 and its incredible that I felt more connected with him then with people that I've seen my whole life and I'm grateful that I met my best friend in a random deathmatch back in 2013.
I still have my Adder along with a bunch of older cars from the PS3 version. Actually I had this VERY early when that crazy DNS online hack happened around Holidays 2013. People just giving away millions and millions, putting 9 million dollar bounties on various people...which caused everyone in the lobby to chase that single person. Anyway, I did grab the Adder with my $$$$. Rockstar eventually did take away all my gifted millions of dollars, but they left my cars alone.
7:56 This is actually what I miss so much about the start of GTA, and why I'm looking forward to a clean slate in GTA 6. Making money is so easy now, I'd love for it to go back to more street crime grinding and when someone actually buys an expensive thing you're like "oh yeah they actually WORKED for that". Stuff like heists should still have a massive payout when they're eventually introduced but maybe make it so you can only do it like once a week. It'll also introduce more reward for story missions with the balancing out so people with actually give af about it!
Ain't nothing wrong with a bit of grind and hustle in GTA. I'm with ya on that. I was even down with the Cayo Perico nerf. But the grind really was bit too much back in 2013-2019... It just wasn't the fair and fun kind of grind, y'know? Shit like the Auto shop & Agency was actually kinda fair tbh.
@@potatoesblink3299 the biggest problem was not the grind, but rather the lack of something to do with that grind. Grinding up to buy yourself a supercar was a thing, though in game about stealing cars it seems like an odd approach, the thing was there was no point in doing this; you could compete in super car races without owning a super car. Besides all of that the lack of missions, events and in world activities made a lot of the things you could spend money on just that, things to spend money on. Get yourself a super car so you have one, a badge of grind, but what was it gonna do for you? Rob more stores faster? Getting the new gear didn't really unlock anything (which they eventually fixed, sort of), it was just a trophy to put on a shelf. I don't mind grind, but good grind allows you to buy things that make the grind go faster, a well designed system has it to where some of the end game items you can buy seem insurmountably expensive, but as you unlock new tools to help you grind you become so much better at making money to where those impossible prices become a bargain. It's ok to have trophy items, but the problem was that the original game was ALL trophies, there was not purpose buying a super car because getting away from police is actually easier in a slower car (due to how their AI and spawning system works) the base guns shoot bullets just as good as the expensive guns, sure these things can sort of help you do the crimes you want but none of them are tools that "unlock" new gameplay. The issue was not the grind as much as it was a lack of a good goal, a new toy to unlock that rewards with new gameplay to change it up. I love the idea of robbing the stores to get started, but what about open world bank robbery once you get some hardware. The thing about heists that always bothered me was that it was just a mission chain of convoluted missions to acquire hardware you probably already had (with MAYBE a passing line of dialogue attempting to explain why your own gear wasn't sufficient) just for the main heist to be just another mission with an absurd payout that felt stupid because only the host of the heist gets above normal mission payouts. It's a great thing to have that "scale up" that we've had, it's just a shame that it's the game that escalated what we did and not the grind we committed to, a new player hops in and has access to bigger payouts immediately so all that grind was for nothing.
@@Whatismusic123 It was. wdym? Everyone wanted a lot stuff back then that cost only a million bucks and spent an optimized week getting that amount. Hell even getting an appartment took a bit of time in the ps3 days. then the businesses came in the next gen stuff with all the new assets and vehicles and upgrades. and this was before the MC ones You can deny that grinding was a requirement in the better part of the last decade. esp 2015-2019
4:28 well in all honesty the homing launcher was always available since rank 1 for a relatively low price, the thing is, back then too many people were noobs and would panic too quick to think of their homing launcher or even to aim their gun and press left on the d-pad to throw a sticky bomb
There is one thing you forgot. When GTA online first launched, the most expensive vehicle was actually the Z-type since it was still going off of the GTA 5 story lore as the most expensive/rarest car in the GTA universe and if you wanted it, you had to pay the $10m. Luckily money dupes were throwing $2b bounties absolutely everywhere on everyone so it was pretty easy to get every vehicle/wep/property that was available at the time
@VictorSpoils yup exactly. It's Rockstar.. you know they already had all this shit ready to release 7 years earlier lol, but as usual they wanted to see how much bread/lettuce/cheddah cheese they could squeeze out of it first, the most pathetic example of a multi-billion dollar sandwich baby 🥪
I'm honestly surprised I've been able to find fun stuff to do with almost no money, but you've helped me find many things to use to have fun in this game. Thansk, T.
I had quit when the diamond casino was added since the game was not properly optimized, even for the xbox one, which was still a relatively new console for the time. It really got me into pc full time.
Little piece about the Zentorno part, specifically for those of us who remember. It started with the Zentorno, but after a little while, people started using the Jester because it could do the same thing if goi equipped it with the panelling on the rear window. Making it the significantly cheaper option, but getting the exact same results. Good times they were back then. No ewo, no ewo looping rather, partly because there was no quick way to buy ammo on the go, but also because in the "era", if you will, yes KD was a stat that tracked, but no one cared about it. Tryhards didn't exist back then. And of course because you couldn't buy ammo on the fly, things were way different in most situations in general. Part of the reason the Zentorno/Jester back-up-killings quit, was people started using RPG's/MGL's/Stickies for getting rid of them, regardless of the costs. Then eventually the *buy ammo through interaction menu* came out and made it a whole different experience.
I remember when the speedlimit was actually based on real life. Adder went superfast in the game, with its 400 km/h. It was glitchy, and sometimes the game would crash, and they had to lower it. Was sick going that fast
I love GTAO so much but as a 14 yo I don’t have any money to pay for ps+ so last year I had to stop playing, I still miss it so much but watching you is almost just as cool as playing it!
Bro. I played this on my ps3 and just recently came back to start over on my ps5 and it's nuts. I stole a helicopter to fly across the map and started getting chased by flying bikes and war machines that didn't use to exist
The game would’ve been fine without all the armor tech and advanced weaponry. All it did was set up griefers with every tool to aggravate the online experience. The flash, the extravagance is fine and all, but loading up 30 players with the ability to nuke the map was a dumb decision.
