I've spent a few thousand hours of my life living in GTA Online. Well, actually, that's how long Steam tells me I've spent tearing up the streets of Los Santos and Blaine County. This lurching figure does not include my time living myriad Truman Show parallel existences within the bounds of FiveM's roleplaying scene.
In any event, at this stage I'm pretty au fait with both the official Grand Theft Auto 5 multiplayer offshoot playground and its unofficial player-made one. I enjoy both spaces for very different reasons, and as GTA 6 comes into increasingly sharper focus, I've spent a lot of time thinking about what I want from its next online variation—whatever shape it may take.
