Rockstar has blessed the GTA Online community with a massive update in Community Race Series. There are Double Rewards for the event, plus yet another round of player-created tracks to be blitzed on. This is the stuff that keeps players coming back to Los Santos year after year, all the while being caught up in GTA VI buzz.
So what is Community Race Series? It is basically a rotating selection of races created by the community of GTA Online. Rockstar picks the cream of the crop and weeds them into the Series while giving the creators some kind of spotlight and some triangle source of fresh motivation for the players. With double rewards, it means more GTA$ and RP for every race you compete in. Always helpful to grease those palms while saving for multi-million supercars or helicopters you’ve been eyeing.
You never want to miss an episode of madness, requests, and downright chaos whenever Rockstar comes up with something even remotely connected with GTA Online these days. The announcement of the race series was no exception. While a few players were caught dead excited—one user, cong mang, even replying, “Sounds awesome, can’t wait to check out the new tracks” —most of the posts were practically unrelated to racing at all.
The comment space was soon opens bar for every complaint and request imaginable. Numerous players pleaded for Turkish localization in GTA VI, one user pleading, “Please add Turkish subtitles to GTA VI. There’s a huge community of Turkish players who love the GTA series and want to enjoy the story in our own language.” This evolved into some…interesting discussions about language and accessibility in gaming.
Then came the complaints-for-when-are-there-not complaints-with-GTA Online: “Fix online pc servers,” one wrote, while another complained, “Can you fix your servers for gta online because every 45 minutes, it says saving failed on Rockstar games services on ps4.” These technical issues have been running for years, and the players have clearly just had enough.
Entertainment sprung straight off into a never-ending argument about whether GTA VI should technically run at 30fps or 60fps on the consoles. A whole thread erupted with users arguing whether the game should target 30fps or 60fps on consoles. One side argued that 30fps is “unplayable” in 2024, while others countered that Rockstar would have to massively downgrade the game’s graphics and physics to hit 60fps. Someone even brought up the Watch Dogs 1 downgrade controversy from like a decade ago?? The conversation got pretty heated, back and forth about hardware limitations and PC ports.
Then, amidst all the chaos, there were random requests like “Release the rest of the police vehicles!” and “Where Jesses Jetta???” because, of course, someone would ask about a Breaking Bad reference. There was even a weird marketing bot trying to promote some AI growth tool by talking about “enhancing human touch” or whatever. Just your usual Twitter rant.
Now what is really interesting, ladies and gentlemen, is how this symbolizes for GTA Online‘s community in 2024. You’ve got players that are still greatly involved in the current content and are thrilled to get updates like the race series. Yet there is a huge chunk that has long since mentally moved on to GTA VI and use every Rockstar tweet as an opportunity to voice their demands and concerns regarding the next title.
In a way, it’s pretty amazing that GTA Online gets meaningful updates such as this twelve years after being released for the very first time. Community Race Series gets double rewards, a pretty sweet deal for anyone still up for hopping in to cruise around Los Santos. New player-created tracks equal fresh fun, plus double pay makes the grind a little less torturous.
Meanwhile, Rockstar developers must be sitting there going, “We just wanted to talk about cool races guys…” But, well, that’s what happens when you’ve made one of the most anticipated games of all time: all the conversation ends up being about what is next instead of what’s out there right now.
For the time being, however, if you’ve still got an ounce of play in you for GTA Online, then the Community Race Series with double rewards is definitely worth checking out. Some of those player-created tracks can get anon-level insane—much more creative than Rockstar standard races. Plus, the double-money factor means you can fatten your virtual bankroll while having a blast. Just, maybe, don’t peek at the replies if you wanna stay on track with racing.
This entire situation, then, in a nutshell, is a perfect snapshot of how gaming communities evolve around long-going live service games. You’ve got the die-hards who are still mining current content for fun, you’ve got the impatient bunch who just sniff and whine until the next big thing is out, and you’ve got everyone in between spewing their opinions into a vacuum. Messy and chaotic though it may be, in a certain way, that might even be beautiful. Anyway, I gotta go run these races and grab those sweet, sweet double rewards.
