User blog comment:The Milkman/Grand Theft Auto V Review: Everything We Wanted?/@comment-1037580-20140613103609

Oh, I also want to elaborate in the issue of buying business. Only a few of the properties unlock some cool based missions like the Private Taxi Fares (where you can get a nice booty call, for example) or benefits (like free taxi rides, free car customizations or free drinks and lap dances in the Vanilla Unicorn), but I don't like the fact that most businesses are:

1) You owe nothing. They're paper companies pretty much! You don't feel you owe anything but a lifeless pile of uninteractive concret. You don't know your staff or managers but only nagging you by SMS or phone calls. Can't go for drinks inside Pitchers or take your buddies there just like in the Vanilla Unicorn? Why not watching live gigs in Tequila-la (and Tequila-la HAS interior! Why can't we get INSIDE our own property that has an actual interior!?)? Vice City had a better approach to use purchasable properties and even enjoy inside them.

2) Useless. No matter how many side missions you do: revenue NEVER improves! Taking again the Vice City example, you do very interesting (mostly all of them) side missions that in the end would make the revenue improve (buying plates for the printworks, selling "ice cream", help to film and promote a movie in your studio, etc.), and then the place would generate more money from it. Buying booze? Scaring thugs? Pfft~! The same piss poor amount of cash will be granted regardless how much you work for YOUR manager.

3) Boring. Really, those managers annoying you with boring trivial jobs that any person from your (non-existent) staff can do. It makes you feel you ARE working for the managers instead of the opposite! There's so much potential in running asset side missions with the places you owe: as in actually manage your place and hire/fire staff, invest in things that according to YOUR choices would either generate or lose income, etc. Or do more fun stuff like managing a gig in Tequila-la, throw a special party in Pitchers, create a gala show from a movie that Michael could produce in his movie studio, or run the classic theft car wishlist for your Los Santos Customs in order to get pieces for customizations, etc). The only ones I found interesting were the Private Fares from Downtown Cab Co. and the McKenzie Airfield, the others are simply bleh.