Rockstar Claims They Will Fix GTA Economy, But Can't Fix Modded Money

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Rockstar Games has sent out a surprising response to a fan who publicly received the illicitly generated money in GTA Online. Shocking as it may sound, they have no way of removing the money.

This hack was being perpetrated on modded consoles, and the money being brought into legitimate units, with the hackers going Robin Hood, spreading the money around everywhere.

The circumstances that led to this revelation are somewhat outstanding. Some fans put up a GTA Online stream a week ago, and were themselves the recipient of said money. They received a huge sum of money which in terms of microtransactions would have cost them a real life amount of $ 20,000. In this case, of course, they had to bring it up with Rockstar.

In Rockstar’s words, they are not able to remove the money from the player’s game. In case they get a ban or penalty, they should contact Rockstar again.

What makes this response extra shocking is that they made a public statement that indicated otherwise. On their official site, they claimed that they continued to balance the dynamic in-game economy and that they were working to adjust or close any exploits to get more cash. Rockstar also made it explicit that they were tracking down player data, as well as direct feedback, so that players can make sure everything in the game is done fairly and on the level.




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Source: http://www.gameranx.com/updates/id/18240/article/rockstar-unable-to-remove-money-from-gta-online-mega-exploit/

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farcry3321Posted:

everyone needs stop complaining about this shit seriously

Truth-Posted:

Give Rockstar some space, you pushed them to release it too early then!:P

VirtualRiotPosted:

People are being so tight on rockstar... Give them some time, jeez

BigRedMachinePosted:

So much modding on this game so quickly, rockstar should do better!

TywinPosted:

Vivador They should be able to take away the money, I don't see what the problem is about that.


They would take away money and then people would claim that it was legit and that would cause mass chaos.

junoPosted:

They should be able to take away the money, I don't see what the problem is about that.

Elite_TempPosted:

As long as I can still play with friends and not be harassed by someone with invincibility or a Mingun that fires rockets I don't really care about the whole money thing. But I'm also still confused on the fact that they can't take players money away like you think they would be able to since they have there own servers.

IlIuminatiPosted:

The first ticket is fake, an official rstar employee would not have a spelling error 'bed cause' I bet the other pic is fake to

burnleyesenihcPosted:

RunMiles
moddingpro210
ZENU96 I just wish they can do something about these modders.


So, your on a modding website that you paid money to. This said site was also made famous because of its modding. So you want something to be done about modders. Logic.


Who cares if it's a modding website? Logic is also that this site isnt ONLY modding. Only modding topic is Xbox/Playstation and the Modded lobbies on MW2. So this website IS NOT a modding website. It supports modding, But isn't. Is that enough logic for you?


This has nothing to do with the OP... TTG is generally a gaming community that discusses everything connected plus more in the aspect they do stuff about apple, conspiracies, technology related stuff rah rah rah.. it just so happens that a lot of the forum chat is about modding or exploiting consoles and games, the admins and creators do have the right to deny access to any known modders they could also stop any discussions on modding related topics and they could also remove the marketplace and a lot of other things but they don`t and its fair to say in some respects "modding/exploiting" is being promoted within the site... if you talk or game with modders they always say TTG or S7 is the best place for it...

Anyways unlucky for the GTA-O players who do want play it legit don`t blame the modder blame the developer, its there jobs to fix it quick given they have made over a billion dollars, i think a TU costs like $46,000 thats nothing and there excuses just cant not accepted at all.. People might slate COD but at least they sort out major problems in there games pretty fast, yeah they do still have things wrong though if its as crucial as what they say the microtransaction really is then it would be dealt with already and not only now....

RanoPosted:

Modding GTA is only fun for so long.. After a while it just gets boring.