I'm sorry I posted this really early in the morning. I was editing this documentary all night long. I hope you guys enjoy it. If you do please drop a like on it. I am going to sleep now I am very tired I will reply to comments in a few hours.

Cayo Perico was the number one reason I came back to play online. I could finally play a heist by myself without failing 20 times because of randoms. This allowed me to finally afford the cars, bikes and businesses I couldn’t before. Loving this game again.

GTA Online Day 1 was a rare and unique day. Nobody had apartments or personal cars, everyone had only a pistol and either killed each other or robbed stores

Bro I never seen someone this dedicated for a game before, hats off to you man.

I remember the early days of GTAO; the Rhino and the Lazer were the most feared and deadly vehicles in the game, many people had to work for that chrome Adder and Entity with whitewalls and dollar rims, and you can't forget to equip Musical Horn 5 on all of your vehicles.

Rooftop rumble was the best grind back in the day. Also wish the mechanic can bring vehicles again. Meeting “god” when you died was unique too. I remember my very first death

I’m a 2013 player. I remember loving it, hated it, sold it, bought it back, loved it again….in that cycle throughout the years. Then finally all the other really good revenues came out starting in-game heists! Jumped back in loving it, making very good in-game $$ and played RDR 1, GTA 5, and RDR 2 as the best games of all time! Cannot wait for GTA 6! True fan of GTA 5, even had drama with it lol😂

Thank you for putting this much effort into explaining the game's history! I miss back in 2016 when I first got the game on PS4 when lobbies were a lot calmer, people driving around in Zentornos and Insurgents. Back then, the only danger was tanks and hydras.

Professional your one of the most hardworking KZfaqrs out there! I hope to see you continue posting content like this for years to come!👍 Edit: Comment kinda blew up boys😂 🍺

Wow, really good job on this video. I can't believe it's already 9 years old. Thank you for all the content you've brought so far. I think I started watching you in 2018 or 19 when you uploaded the Mr Boss parody, and with help from your videos and guides me and my friends would grind the business all night long and have so much fun. Thank you.

i remember when gta online only had missions and corner stores to make money

Been playing since launch, have plenty of time logged, lots of month long breaks throughout the years. This was a good nostalgia trip, like I'm sitting there waiting for the update to drop all over again

I remember back when if you saw someone who had an adder they were always surrounded by at least three people you would legitimately be popular and have people following you because of your adder

One of the things that keeps me hooked to GTA 5 Online are the player encounters. You never know what you'll get into whether it will be a fun or frustrating interaction. Whenever you log on, you wonder what's gonna happen today and if a player will attack or not. It's the something different can happen during any game session at any time that got me still playing.

Love this guy he puts in work homie apologies for uploading in the morning and he apologizes for missing any of his uploads even if it's a day late truly a legend

Wow! I’m glad you did this video. I’ve owned GTA since 2013 but I wasn’t dedicated to playing the online part til 2018 maybe 2019 and to see all the updates summarized in to one video makes me wish I had dedicated more time to GTAO years before I did. I’m probably one of my only friends who still play GTA religiously

I was an idiot and got put off by the hype in 2013. Finally started playing in 2018 and have been hooked ever since. Love your content, Professional!

We went from grinding rooftop rumble to now grinding cayo perico and agency contracts, its beautiful tbh

As a new player to GTA this past year, your summary and details covered were amazing in this video! Thank you!

I love the fact you always are one of the only KZfaqrs who constantly do fundraisers. Respect

I feel Online didn’t get interesting until the heist update, I remember trying to grind then at first then going for criminal mastermind. Funny part is now a days people usually kick me for using the same routes that we used for the criminal mastermind challenge because I didn’t follow the gps route xD

Cars are the reason I started playing gta online a year ago with the tuners update and is the only reason I still play today. I absolutely love buying and customizing cars and building themed garages

I did not expect this video but thanks for it because it was amazing!

Great video Pro! I really enjoyed how you discussed each update and gta onlines history throughout the years. Let's hope the next gta game is good and has a great story with a great online!

I remember way back when gta 5 came out me and my buddy used to just grind crate drops and armoured trucks

I really appreciate this retrospective on the online updates. I'm new to GTA Online , and really dont understand most of what's going on half the time 😅. its nice to at least know when things were updated and what was added. I still really wish updates were more integrated with story mode, but maybe that's an overstated take.

This is amazing content as usual Pro! A 1 hour documentary on GTA Online ahh gonna enjoy this

Great vid as always! Was nice taking a trip down memory lane as someone who's been on there since 2013

As controversial as GTA Online is as it’s the reason we haven’t got GTA 6 yet and the only game Rockstar continually supports, it’s definitely one of the best online games of all time as there’s no game like that hence one of the reasons for its massive success.

Man i miss playing this game as what it was back then in 2013/2014=something brand new and original I was 13/14 when this game came out so i will always remember it as part of my high school years,those years were something else from high school(a new place for me) to this gta 5 which back then even in ps3 had amazing graphics,multiple charachter switching,perfect vibes for the environment since u can almost feel like you are exploring the world especially if you go to to beach in venice at evening it feels like you are going yourself walking around and chilling in santa monica irl,nice fun and enjoyable story,all kinds of cars helicopters planes etc…Real revolutionary,as i was growing i was seeing all these stuff brand new. So i played story modes many times since i also couldnt play online more then few times a year i had no wi fi at home but a phone internet that was bad. So from 2015 to 2018 i pretty much watched gta online from youtube rather then play it myself and i always wished of doing modded amazing car races,deathruns and crazy activities with a lot of friends and people but unfortunatelly the expectations didnt meet reality since i didnt have more then a couple of friends to play with and other friends met in gta which i lost contact to. I m glad i made friends with people in gta even if not all lasted but i enjoyed it. But nowadays i barely play it because it just feels old,the lobbies are toxic often times and nobody plays anything outside free mode stuffs so no car races and no heists. I enjoyed gta online but not as much as i wanted and i will be always nostalgic about this game and story mode which cheered me up in some times in high school days. This game will always resemble my teenage years between joy and unrealized stuff. I will remember this game with his pause menu theme as nostalgic as this game But last thing:about gta online even i played like few times a year i remember i played the day the home heist dropped and i remember beside the hype on it also the trolls:a lot of people used to quit lobby as 4/4 reached,like the hosts used to do that or scummy people quitted in general i remember it was common

Thanks for this retrospective, I only started playing in 2020, and by the time there was already so many businesses and so many crazy vehicles that's it's interesting to think back on what came in when, imagine a time without the casino, imagine a time without the bunker... I also owe a great deal of what I have in GTAO to your guides, so looking forward to the upcoming one.

You did very well on this, thank you.

I didn’t really play online back in the day like 2017-2018 but I got it again a couple months ago GTA online is very fun especially with invite only to be safe from being repeatedly murk’d by grievers. There are way too many grievers no matter which public session it is

I started back in late 2013 to early 2014. I remember spending summers just playing with my cousin and his friends and just doing a lot of stuff getting money and vehicles. This came out when I started high school and now 9 years later I'm a senior in college. This game will always be one of my favorite games in my teenage years.

Very well made video that brought back so many memories.

This was incredible thank you -- just got back in GTA 5 and this video was what I needed

I feel like 2015-2017 was the strongest point for GTA Online because of how many great DLCs there were during that time and although the Criminal Enterprises was a fairly small DLC compared to others, it will always be one of my favorites because not only are all businesses now fully accessible in private lobbies but it gives me a lot of things to do in freemode without getting destroyed by MKIIs and it gives me a bit of nostalgia because I now do a lot of stuff within those businesses that I haven't done for over 3 years (basically before the Casino and Cayo Perico Heists were added).

While I didn’t start on day one, I do remember a lot of GTAO’s history. I myself started playing GTAV at the very end of 2014 when I got a PS4, and started playing online in February 2015, a month before the Heists update. I also still remember the Armored Trucks from the old Freemode events. I wish the old events remained and were mixed up with the new ones. I do remember the VIP Organizations for which you needed $1,000,000 (a lot of money for me back then), and the 4 hour timer, cooldown was 12 hours after that. Further Adventures in Finance & Felony was the first update that I was really hyping up for. I started liking how you collect crates and then sell them. Just takes long to fill your warehouses up, especially with those 3-crate-drop missions. The Bikers update was something that I only started some time after it came out. The most hated part of that are the raids that if when failed removes all of your product from the Business. Same with Import/Export, I didn’t start with that until a few weeks after it came out. The reason for that is that I was focusing a lot on high school at that time. It eventually became my main income source in 2017, having made more than $100 million from it. Then Gunrunning came around. I remember when that was announced 3 months before, so that’s when I actually started grinding, as in making good money. I really liked the Bunker business (and still do so today), and yes, I remember that it was mostly jets that were used as the main griefing vehicle, before the Oppressor replaced that. Smuggler’s Run was a surprise for me as well. Right as the Gunrunning content ended they announced it 5 days around the road. But the Hangar business became the worst business in my opinion and still remains so to this day. I remember how hard for example that Avenger setup was in The Doomsday Heist. I spent so many times doing that one. The best thing of the heists was indeed the 2-player possibility. Orbital Cannon became the stupidest thing that was ever added to GTA Online. SSASSS update came as a surprise, and yeah I wasn’t really that excited for it either. I really liked After Hours, except the popularity system, which you needed to do TEN (!) missions for it to fill up, or rebook DJs for $100k each. Nightclub Warehouse was the best thing this update added. It was also the last cargo business added. The Oppressor Mk II is the second stupidest thing added after the Orbital Cannon. I did like the Client Jobs, especially since how you can mix them up with VIP/CEO work, and the Terrorbyte which let you source crates without constantly going to the office all the time. Arena War was really bad. I mean I liked some game modes, but the Arena Ranks (ONE THOUSAND OF THEM) was the worst thing of that update, because you need to play DAYS and DAYS of Arena War and it would take forever if you aimed to hit rank 1000. The Diamond Casino & Resort was a good update, but yeah the Lucky Wheel shouldn’t have been locked. I feel bad for those players who were left out of most of that update. The Diamond Casino Heist was a really good “consolation prize” for those players. The way these heists were structured made me keep playing those heists. Los Santos Summer Special was what it was, an average small update. Very understandable looking back at how COVID-19 changed our lives completely. The Cayo Perico Heist really made its promise of being the biggest update ever (as announced in July 2020) true. It build on the casino heist, and the solo playability was what I like the most of that update, I’ve done most of my Cayo Perico heists solo. It also added the Master Control Terminal, which eliminated going to all of your MC Businesses/Bunker to buy supplies. A 10 minute chore was reduced to a 10-second pit stop at the Arcade. Only thing I hate with it is that you can get raided when you do this. The LS Tuners update was a good update, I most liked the Auto Shop contracts. The Contract DLC built on that, and I really like that Franklin was in that update. One of the few updates in which story mode was integrated into Online. The Criminal Enterprises was a very good DLC. The best thing of it was selling in those private lobbies, because you don’t have to worry about those toxic people that you encounter in public lobbies. Only sucks how they nerfed Cayo Perico. And that wraps up my history of playing GTA Online over the last 7 and a half years out of this game’s 9 year existence.

Great video , the Al Capone Roosevelt quick history lesson was very dope . Keep up the good work champ

Excellent video OG , we appreciate you 🫡

I remember you could press R2 and replay contact missions. I kept replaying a mission from Gerald and robbing stores over and over. I remember finally saving up for an Entity and it glitched and didn't charge me for it. I was so excited lol. Man such simpler times

This game has aged like fine wine

its really cool that someone did this, i love it. thank you

Wow Pro this is gonna be great Kudos for the amount of work!

I’ve been playing since day one. So many memories. Basically my entire childhood. 9 years.

My favourite part of the doomsday heist is how the orbital cannon is a mission only feature Can’t wait for the ultimate money guide

Great vid bruva 👌🏼 takes me way back to the good old days 👌🏼

Your videos are always awesome no matter what time you post it 😎

I will 100% agree that GTA Online compared to how it was in 2013 is a lot better than it was.

Still crazy it took almost 2 years for this game to finally get heists.

Very good video! Thank you

Well made, looking forward to your updated ultimate money guide.👍🏻

The futuristic stuff began back in GTA San Andreas, not Gunrunning. People zipping around in an Oppressor or MK2 is no more absurd than CJ casually flying around on a jet pack.

the criminal enterprise was the quality of life change we desperately needed. only thing left I'd like to see is Michael make a return in his own update.

played since the beginning and started seriously after 2016. thanks for the amazing video

Super excited for your new money guide

True OGs remember Rooftop Rumble!

I remember paying like $11.25M to clear all the research in a few days for Gunrunning. ⚜💯

Great video Pro, and can’t wait to see your new money guide video!

i started playing gta online right before the casino came out :3 i thouhht i missed out all these years but i realize i didnt !

Anyone remembers the time when players saw you as a millionaire when you owned the maze bank apartment and owned a t20? Good times

I think if rockstar announces the last DLC for GTA online (which is gonna been a while) they need a DLC with Michael involving the movie studio

Man I was feeling sad today then this popped up. Thanks pro!!

Great Job Pro! Keep up the Awesome Work!

Back in the day if you wanted to make friends on GTA you just needed to find a group doing heists be semi competent and stick with them till the end and you’ll get a friend request and party invite 9 times out of 10.

I love the Doomsday heist I had so many fun memories with friends 🔫

Just watched the whole vid, very nice 👍🏽

Heyyy nice u actually had a video planned idk if u said this in a stream or somthin but very nice!

Wasnt the PS3 version of GTA 5 bugged where it would always freeze, during the mission where Michael dresses up as cops and robs two guys of their cars?

I remember trying GTAO in 2013... it was horrible. Not being able to connect to lobbies, nothing much to do in lobbies besides contact missions and hard to make any real money to buy things... then my character was deleted so I stopped playing until 2019 with the casino update. I was working in a casino at that time so I was curious to see a casino in game. I was shocked by how different gtao was from the failures of 2013. Thankfully R* never gave up on GTAO (unlike with RDO) and was able to sustain this game with so many updates that it flourished into the game it is today.

I love this man, I wish you all the best in life

Always love and appreciate ur content!

I was there during launch of Online. Lol I remember when it first launched it was BAD foreal. What I want to know is if the custom character will transfer to GTA VI. Would be amazing if you’ll be able to travel back and forth between Los Santos and Vice City.

I was 14 when I started playing GTA Online (on Release Day) Since then I finished school, finished college and became a lawyer, got married and recently became a father. And I still play this game every now and then. So crazy!

I always appreciate the work you put into your videos Professional. While I wasn’t a big fan of GTA Online at any point, I do get why people enjoyed it quite a bit and I do get why many aren’t that enthused with it at this point, especially when there hasn’t been much news outside of GTA Online when it’s come to the GTA series, until recently with the GTA VI leaks. You’re defiantly one of the best KZfaqrs around. I and many others have enjoyed the hours of content you’ve made and I want to thank you for the work you’ve done throughout the years and I hope you’re doing well and have a great rest of your weekend man.

Great video ty

"GTA Online is one of the best online games I have played" how many online games have you played lmao, three?

Thank you for this video

Loved the history lesson, thanks pro😊

This was brilliant 👏 Thank you Professional.

Great video‼️‼️‼️‼️ glad you had this in mind Love this love gta videos

wtf,,, u goonn i love this and you! MISS U hope to see u this holiday

Professional thank you for making this video I quit online 2 years ago but I started playing since the first day as well it's nice to look back at the journey of GTA online

Wow can't believe you are still alive on this game after so many years! Hats off to you for your dedication on this game.

Great content as usual, thank you

I found this channel when I was searching on someone who buys the most expensive properties in GTA Online and I found one of your videos

thank u for this brother🙏🏼💯

I hope maybe one day I'll come across you in the lobby that would be crazy cool would make my day you have a good weekend Brotha 💯

I am enjoying the nice break down

watched all of it thanks Pro good job 💖💖🙌🙌

You are the Professional at making awesome videos like this. Everything you said is true.👍🏽😉💙

Great Video Bro good work👍

Professional great video keep up the great work man in GTAO & RDO

Great breakdown.

Gotta say. This guys an absolute GTA legend. He’s been here since day 1 and has some really good thoughts about the game

As always, you are the best gta youtuber ever and very accurate with your opinions 👍🏾

Great video as always

Great job on this video and I understand your explanations too. GTA Online does have its weaknesses, flaws, problems, and controversial moments yes, but I still like it. Happy Halloween btw since it's October.

Thax u very much 4 everything 🙂👍

From grinding rooftop rumbling to grinding cayo perico. Crazy how this game is 10 years old and it never died