{"id":90984,"date":"2026-10-11T10:30:00","date_gmt":"2026-10-11T14:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90984"},"modified":"2026-10-11T11:44:23","modified_gmt":"2026-10-11T15:44:23","slug":"im-shocked-that-people-are-still-playing-how-gta-5-took-over-the-world","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/?p=90984","title":{"rendered":"\u2018I\u2019m Shocked That People Are Still Playing\u2019 \u2013 How GTA 5 Took Over the World"},"content":{"rendered":"<section data-transform=\"mobile-ad-break\">\n<p>There are over 230 million copies of Grand Theft Auto 5 in the world. As the second-highest selling game of all time, it has been played for billions of hours by players across the globe, making it one of the most significant pastimes in the entire world. That\u2019s an impressive achievement for what in 2013 was simply the highly-anticipated next entry in Rockstar\u2019s beloved (and notorious) open-world crime series. But GTA 5 proved to be much, much more than a typical sequel. It has become home to a huge, expressive, and loyal community, one which has made a digital hobby of everything from <a href=\"https:\/\/www.ign.com\/articles\/gta-online-alien-war-green-purple\">warring alien clans<\/a> to producing slick vehicle stunt movies. <\/p>\n<p>This is the story of how a video game became much more than a crime simulator. <\/p>\n<p>Ash Skyqueen\u2019s avatar weaves between the traffic of busy Dorset Drive on a motorbike spouting flames. Suddenly she veers, mounting the pavement at high speed and rebounding from the roof of a bus stop to achieve incredible air. Momentum carries her through a perfect circle, barely bigger than a human body, that forms the second \u2018O\u2019 of the \u2018LIQUOR HOLE\u2019 store sign. Pulling the ripcord of her parachute, she lands with<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are over 230 million copies of Grand Theft Auto 5 in the world. As the second-highest selling game of all time, it has been played for billions of hours by players across the globe, making it one of the most significant pastimes in the entire world. That\u2019s an impressive achievement for what in 2013&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":54,"featured_media":90986,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[56],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90984","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-external"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90984"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/54"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=90984"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90984\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":90988,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90984\/revisions\/90988"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/90986"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=90984"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=90984"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/vgvote.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=90984"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}