240 in-game years in GTA 5 and the Mile High Club that was under construction when the game launched still isn't finished.
GTA 5 celebrated its eighth anniversary over the weekend. That's right, it has been eight years and two generations of consoles since we first stepped foot in Los Santos, and we have still not been given any indication on when we might be allowed to leave. What's even more shocking is after all this time, parts of the sprawling island are still under construction.
Granted, new buildings have popped up over time as GTA Online has evolved. However, there's one very tall building, the second-tallest in all of Los Santos as a matter of fact, that has remained unfinished for GTA 5's eight years and counting. To make matters even worse, since a GTA day takes just 48 minutes, that's 240 in-game years.
It's not even as if the building is just a construction site. The skyscraper being built even has a name: The Mile High Club. A clever play on words, and something that sounds very in keeping with everything else you might find on the Los Santos skyline. However, with each passing GTA year, which takes just 12 and a bit days in real-time, its continued incompletion becomes more unacceptable.
The continued wait for the Mile High Club to reach completion has been going on for so long that some players are comparing it to the eternal wait for GTA 6. The building has become a physical (or maybe that should be virtual) representation of the wait at this point. No sign of it will ever be finished, or even a hint at such from Rockstar, but players remain hopeful that one day, all of a sudden, the completed product will be presented to us out of the blue.
240 years later, you might want to give up on any hope you have of ever visiting a completed Mile High Club. The block is simply there to act as a building site for players to climb on and cause havoc with. Plus, after 240 Los Santos years, the only way a completed Mile High Club would ever live up to the hype is if it acts as a portal to GTA 6.