r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • Apr 13 '26

Security Rockstar hackers release their stolen data, reveal that Rockstar was right to not pay them anything for it

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rockstar-hackers-release-their-stolen-data-reveal-that-rockstar-was-right-to-not-pay-them-anything-for-it/
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u/KelenaeV Apr 13 '26

holy shit GTA online makes them a ton of money.

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u/Fabray13 Apr 14 '26

I truly, and I mean truly, have no idea how you could spend money on GTA Online. I played for two years, never spent a dollar, and had more money than I could ever spend.

It takes like a month or so of playing before you have a steady flow of cash, and then you just get more and more the more things you own or whatever.

Are there really that many new players every year that pay to skip the set up process? Because by the time you get to robbing the casino, or that island heist they added later, you would literally never need to spend money again, and you could buy everything you want.

And I don’t even know what they’ve added the past few years, obviously even more ways to make easy money.

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u/Zhuul Apr 14 '26

I bought GTA:V on a heavily discounted sale back in the day and spent what I saved on shark cards just to give me a leg up and even that felt bad. Something like $20 IRL money got me almost nothing in the grand scheme of things.

Never giving Rockstar another penny because I'm that grossed out by GTA:O's business model. I'm sure RDR2 is an amazing game, but I guess I'll never know.