PROS AND CONS OF ROCKSTAR-SERVER-PLAYERHOST VS MULTI-THEFT-AUTO CUSTOM-RULES HOST.
I personally at this point, am sick of Rockstars terrible way of running the online game and community like a scientist who jabs rats with a potentially fatal needle of unwilling experimentation.
Rockstar Servers:
1.What i call, "Fun Police" algorithms: (designed to slow down or reduce how much fun youre having..... yeah literally, im not joking)
-Cooldown timers on ordering or replacing vehicles.
-Cooldown on ordering your mechanic (whome you FUCKING PAY TO WORK FOR YOU)
-High fee's for blowing up other players vehicles (in a grand..theft...auto game *rolls eyes*)
-High upper-tier weapon ammunition costs (having fun with an RPG for 20 seconds costs you 5-10 minutes of quick-mission farming to regain)
-Any PVP kill or self-defense kill gaining you police stars overdramatically.
-Any stealth melee kill or Silent-Weapon stealth kill still giving you police stars even though there are no witnesses or sign of actual detection.
-Minimum spec required: Broadband internet connection and 65gb HDD space right? Well Custom races are less than 200kb to download. Why Rockstar (for no good reason on next gen and PC) can you only place a small amount of objects equivalent to less than 200kb?....everyone with broadband (even 1mb) can download a 10mb file in less than 30 seconds. Not even MUSIC2000 for PS1 is as stingy as you are!
-Forced and very very limited game-modes.
-No true anticheat technology.
-Disabling the Stock market..
-insert about a thousand things here
2. Shoddy Business practices:
-Changed price to $79 on steam right before the summer sale and falsifying that there was actually a %off deal when infact it was the same price. DICK MOVE.
-Forceful marking trying to make you buy Shark Cards, gating FUN to REAL LIFE MONEY (again, point #1)
-Even having a leveling system at all in a GTA game to gate how much fun you can have, limited to how much KoreanMissions you have grinded, or Shark Cards you have bought (lets face it everyone modded money in or took money from other modders with NO REGRET)
I could add so much to this post (literally havent even got started on Rockstars bullshit) but i think you get the point. Multi-Theft-Auto was chaotic yes, but 1000 times more fun than this shit, and it was a hell of a lot more customizable.
Turning on Zombie Mod and playing online with friends, PRICELESS MEMORIES.
I made a kickass race track in the sky, on GTA5 if i try making a sky-racetrack the bitch is complaining 'i dont have enough memory' like its a fukin pre-gen consoles bitch.