[Rumor] Plans for Grand Theft Auto Online DLC may have been leaked

Rockstar just revealed Red Dead Redemption 2 last week and with it they announced the game will get an online mode in the same format of the wildly successful Grand Theft Auto Online. Many kind of assumed Grand Theft Auto Online would take the backseat upon RDR 2's release but it sounds as if Rockstar still has some big plans for the game, expanding into paid expansions that unlock new maps such as Liberty City from GTA III and IV and North Yankton (the snowy Midwestern town in the prologue of GTA V) in 2017.

Please remember these are rumors but they come from a reputable source. While we firmly believe that this some of this content is potentially possible, it doesn't mean it is 100% confirmed.

Back in August, a GTAFourms user who has a history of revealing things coming to GTA Online before they're announced posted a list of future updates coming to the online world of crime. The post was made a month before the Biker DLC released and ironically, the first DLC he lists is a Biker DLC which was a well kept secret at Rockstar at the time of the post. The user also revealed several things prior to the release of the game's release in 2013 and has only posted three times total in the last three years (presumably so they don't get caught by Rockstar or whoever is giving them this information). You can find the list of potential upcoming GTA Online DLC below.

"Biker DLC:
(Bikes, clothes, free roam missions)
*purchase clubhouse to activate biker free roam missions

Law and order DLC
(Police free roam and vehicles)
*Purchase police vehicles to activate free roam police missions

The Luxury Living DLC
(Mansions & Pets)
*Purchase Mansion to *purchase exotic pets (Mansion grounds only)

The Blaine County and Paleto DLC
(Animals in free roam)
Animals online syncing workaround via VIP mission type activation

*Purchase hunting license and equipment to activate hunting objectives
*Purchase New warehouses and properties

North Yankton and Liberty City (Online Map expansion)
$£ Paid DLC 1 2017 sept
*Not Yet Complete

San Fierro and Las ventures
(Online Map expansion)
$£ Paid DLC 2 2018 oct
*Not Yet Complete

Vice City…. Not until GTA VI, some time around 2020 At the VERY earliest!

San Fierro and Las Ventures were built alongside Los santos way back in the early development stages of GTAV, Scrapped on PS3/Xbox for obvious reasons!!
After more then 3 years of re building for PS4/XBO/PC,
Both are still being worked on with a release target of October 2018!

Single player DLC has been replaced with Online Map expansion model!
Mainly due to the unforeseen success of micro transactions and GTA online in general!

Liberty City will be released September 2017..
The DLC will included

A Open ticket (for city slickers) to Liberty City!

A Open ticket (for Snow Blowers) to North Yankton!

EXCLUSIVE VIP Membership (for High rollers) which grants Exclusive access to THE CASINO in Los Santos!

Pre Order Bonus of 1 million GTA Casino chips for pre order!!

Micro transactions can NOT buy GTA CASINO CHIPS!

Liberty City, North Yankton and the Los Santos Casino scheduled together to keep player migration relatively balanced!!

Liberty City will enable you to trade on the stock market, once a Office has been *Purchased! Similar to the current crate set up!

Both DLC's will be priced equivalent to a full game!!"

The mystery man (or woman) notes that San Fierro and Las Ventures (cities from Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas) were built with the Los Santos map in GTA V but were scrapped sometime during development (possibly due to size and being too ambitious for a console like the Xbox 360 or PS3) so it's entirely possible that some of these features will be tossed or reworked.

The stuff that seems most likely to release is the opening of the casino, The Luxury Living and Blaine County, and Paleto Bay DLC as it seems like the most viable next step for GTA Online. However, things like the Law and Order DLC seem a bit trickier to implement.

Players already go around murdering each other at a high rate, what's to stop them from doing that to a player who is a cop? It seems like it could get messy and the mechanics would take away from what makes GTA fun, do whatever you want with very little consequences. While a cop DLC would be fun, it seems a bit out of place for the series.

The biggest thing has to be the numerous map expansions. Grand Theft Auto V is MASSIVE there is so much detail and the game takes forever to load just because the map is so big and there's so much content. If you go speeding down the road in a really fast car, chances are the map won't be able to load in as fast as you are traveling. Add on two or even three additional maps and the game could potentially fall apart at the seams and be a technical nightmare. Liberty City is massive as well and of course they'll add more to it so it feels new. No one really knows how big North Yankton is due to the fact you go there only twice in GTA V and you don't get to explore it but obviously you'd want to make it pretty big to justify a brand new map.

Not only would it be a nightmare for a developer, but if they're releasing Red Dead Redemption 2 next year, why would they dedicate so much time and so many resources to this DLC especially if they're supposedly going to release almost side by side.

While this source has a good track record, it's possible some of these are just plans that were tossed around the office at Rockstar but never came to fruition. As previously mentioned, things like the casino seem entirely possible as there have been audio files found in the game that suggest that the empty casino in Los Santos will eventually open up and you'll be able to use it in GTA Online.

Do you think any of these potential updates sound logical or would you like to see another type of DLC for GTA V before we jump back into the wild, wild, west? Let us know in the comments below.