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Rockstar Games will be conducting one-to-one discussions regarding its live service game, GTA Online, with a select number of players.
@disagrees
Didn't have a good rebuttal did you? We all know the select players are whales who waste thousands or hundreds of thousands on the games currency. You expect them to make the same kinds of demands as everyone else? Keep dreaming.
Rockstar Games is permanently banning players for using an account duplication exploit in GTA V's multiplayer component, GTA Online.
Why is this news? Is this supposed to be some sort of heads up to those involved?
Why shouldn't this be news? If you play the game at all, you'd know this has been a problem for a while. Tell me, how is it fair for legit low-level players to be grieved by players using modded accounts with disposable amounts of cash? It's about time Rockstar did something about these losers.
Not that I really played it in forever, but the way I used to roll on online once I realize I had no interest in actually doing heists and micromanaging property and shit, the moment someone decided to pick a fight I'd just leave towards north, jump the fence of the army base, steal a jet and grief away... Pro tip: they can't really make you pay for other players cars when you have not one single penny to your name.
EDIT: Got carried away... Anyway, my point was, you can grief without money, this is not stopping it.
@BISHOP-BRASIL
I get what you're trying to say, but it's a false equivalence. Anyone could jump the fence and grab a jet back in the day. The dynamic changed once R* started introducing militarized vehicles, such as flying motorcycles with homing rockets, a stealth helicopter, and most recently, a stealth jet. There's so many militarized vehicles now, you really have to keep up with the latest and greatest in order to defend yourself from that shit, which is really expensive to do. Sure, you could make the argument that Shark Cards give players the same advantage as a modded account. The thing is, they don't. Not even close. A modded account can have ANY amount of money, as well as ANY weapon and/or vehicle, even ones that aren't available in the game yet (as long as they're in the datafiles). Some of them even have glitched characters with invisible limbs/weapons. This is an unfair advantage to anyone who plays legitimately and nobody should have to risk getting their accounts permanently banned from stooping to the same level just to compete. Furthermore, making money is really easy to do now. Which begs the question: Why buy a modded account in the first place? I think the answer is obvious.
I think this is to get back at Rockstar for cutting how much you make in missions since it's obvious they want people to get fed up and buy their microtransactions.
It looks like the illicit money has been laundered far too deeply into the GTA world and the logistics of tracking this down are probably far too much for Rockstar.
Lol you gotta laugh though; it goes with the spirit of the game.
@Septic, My dear Watson, you are correct...it goes with nature of the game.
"Money being laundered" LOL
I doubt $973,000 in game credits costs $20,000 in real money somehow.
The stream that they showed in the article, Streamhouse, basically has a person from the house play the same character 24/7. They lost millions in assets when the servers were unstable. (level 70+ character with 400k apartment and 5 fully loaded premium vehicles) They contacted R* on several occasions and got a scripted response. Their character came back, but none of the assets. I wouldn't be surprised if the hacker fairies gifted them some cash (especially saying as though they have thousands of people watching just about 24/7 from all over the world).