Following the release of GTA Online San Andreas Mercenaries, PlayStation have announced the removal of the PS+ requirement needed to play GTA Online this weekend.
In a Tweet posted on June 23rd via the official PlayStation Twitter account, the company state “Team up with your friends or take on other players in your favorite PS5 and PS4 games, without a PlayStation Plus membership.”
This means anyone who owns GTA Online can play GTA Online without having an active PS+ Membership through Sunday June 25th. We did wish online multiplayer access on consoles became free forever much like PC.
Why is this happening?
Every so often, PlayStation remove the need to have an active PlayStation Plus membership for some games during a weekend. This is their “Free Online Multiplayer Weekend”.
GTA Online is part of this because Rockstar Games and PlayStation have a close relationship and regularly offer this type of offer around the releases of new content updates.
It’s no surprise they want more players going online in southern San Andreas as the game has continued to sell very well and be downloaded a lot in the last few months on PlayStation. GTA V was the second most downloaded game last month on PS5 despite no new content at the time.
We expect to see GTA Online to have even more downloads this month given the release of the brand new GTA Online San Andreas Mercenaries content update.
Back in December, PlayStation gave players 2 weeks of access to GTA Online without the need to have a PS+ membership.
If you are checking GTA Online out this weekend to see what’s going down, check out our article covering everything happening in GTA Online this week.
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