Rockstar Cracking Down on GTA Online Hackers and Illegitmate Money

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Rockstar Games has had enough of hackers who have added funds to their virtual wallet via various mods and hacks in GTA Online. And so today, the developer announced what it plans to do to remedy this problem.

An update on its support page reads:

“To keep the gameplay environment fair we have removed illegitimately gained in-game money from player accounts. If you received an alert saying that your shared bank balance was adjusted, that is because you had illegitimate funds in your account.”

In the following paragraph, Rockstar assures that any GTA$ purchased via Shark Cards will remain on the account and are not affected by the removal of illegitimately gained in-game money.

To accompany the support page update, Rockstar also updated its suspension and ban policy:

“GTA Online suspensions are triggered by a number of factors, including modding in GTA Online, exploiting or abusing game mechanics, manipulating protected game data and code, or interfering with other players’ gameplay experience. Suspensions from GTA Online due to these reasons may be temporary suspensions or permanent bans depending on the severity of the infraction. If you receive a temporary suspension from GTA Online, the next infraction will result in a permanent ban. If you are temporarily suspended from GTA Online, you will not be able to access GTA Online from the moment you are suspended. Your suspension expiration date is shown on the splash screen after being returned to Story Mode following an attempt to play GTA Online.

In addition, your GTA Online character(s) will be reset. All GTA Online progress, property and inventory will be reset. All GTA Online suspension and banning decisions are final and may not be appealed.”

Posted: Oct 25, 2016 9:44 pm
Related Forum: Grand Theft Auto Forum

Source: http://www.dualshockers.com/2016/10/25/rockstar-cracking-gta-online-hackers-illegitmate-money/

Comments

HellboyTxPosted: Wed. Oct 26, 2016

Wait a minute... Ppl still play this broken game? Lol

DeftonesPosted: Wed. Oct 26, 2016

Not affected me but if it does I have 2 garages I had already prepared that are full of expensive cars I can sell

D93xPosted: Wed. Oct 26, 2016

Ol_Mate There goes my 80m on my xbox account, oh well, was bound to happen eventually. At least my account isnt banned.

I lost 200M lol. I still have all my vehicles, garage etc so I am selling most of them to get money back.

CyimkingPosted: Wed. Oct 26, 2016

ehf think its a little late for this. and nobody would need modded money if everything wasnt so overpriced in game... plus it takes forever to earn enough money to get things you actually want without spending irl money which is all they want. theyre just money hungry a holes

It's a good thing that everything in the game is overpriced... else you would have bought everything after 2 weeks of playing.

bsmPosted: Wed. Oct 26, 2016

There goes my 80m on my xbox account, oh well, was bound to happen eventually. At least my account isnt banned.

FairfaxPosted: Wed. Oct 26, 2016

I hope this hasn't happened to my modded account please noooooo!

732Posted: Wed. Oct 26, 2016

think its a little late for this. and nobody would need modded money if everything wasnt so overpriced in game... plus it takes forever to earn enough money to get things you actually want without spending irl money which is all they want. theyre just money hungry a holes

GearzyTVPosted: Wed. Oct 26, 2016

Now I'm glad I never purchased a money drop.

ZachPosted: Tue. Oct 25, 2016

Took them awhile to start doing this. Maybe they should take notice to the fact that earning money is difficult for what they have everything priced at. Hopefully they start adding more ways to earn cash.