GTA Online money glitching: “Rockstar police” go on ban spree

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Sounds as though Rockstar’s getting serious about cracking down on GTA Online money glitchers, with reports surfacing of “undercover” employees infiltrating the community to bust perps.


GTA YouTube DomisLive notes in this video, several prominent YouTubers have been banned over the promotion of money glitching.

YouTubers such as Sir Weed, are apparently being targeted over videos such as this, which shows an exploit to boost bank accounts by millions in minutes:


Rockstar’s increasingly aggressive stance on glitching comes as it builds to the release of Heists, the GTA Online add-on which will supposedly replicates the larger scale robberies from GTA 5′s main campaign.

While no release date has been offered for Heists as yet, constant rumour is pegging the update for the next-gen versions of GTA V later this year. Heists, according to the GTA community, could offer pay-outs as high as $1.5 million per job.

In addition, YouTuber NoahJ456 (who’s also been banned over money glitch violations), rumoured recently that Rockstar employees, whom he dubs “the Rockstar police,” have been entering games to weedle out glitchers before placing them in the Cheaters Pool. Once you’re in here, you’re stuck for weeks.


Money glitching is a major topic among GTA Online players, as the game is notoriously tough when it comes to making cash. Players have long asked Rockstar for easier ways to accrue larger amounts of dollars.

Rockstar has reportedly been hot-patching money glitches with increasing enthusiasm since the last GTA Online update, the Independence Day Special, in early July.

The only current methods to make money are doing jobs (an average mission will net a few thousands dollars), killing people and stealing the cash that drops from the corpse (again, no one’s getting rich this way) or buying in-game currency with real money: The Great White Shark Cash Card, for example, costs £15 (€18.99 on the Xbox Store) and will give you $1.25 million in-game.

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Elim8Posted:

Only losers and sad people cheat because they don't know how to play the game.

AllSkinsNoSkillPosted:

A little late to me.There are so many people with insane ranks/cash that nothings really cool.I did so many missions to get what I have and it doesn't matter because of all the money glitches.

One-XPosted:

Thank you Rockstar! Finally getting rid of these scumbags.

BURNING_BARRAGEPosted:

They should have been doing it a long time ago. If you cheat you should be punished, this game is an rpg so you'll need to grind to get he best things. This game isn't about earning enough money to buy three of the best cars within an hour.

JRMHPosted:

Pryzel This feels a bit harsh, but no doubt they need to punish people who cheat, simple. But I think removing their money would be a sufficient punishment.


They'll just look for another glitch to obtain money. Honestly the people who abuse the money glitch shouldn't even be allowed to play online. They ruined it, and I stopped playing online after the first month. Sorry but GTAV was ruined from these glitches.

TomPosted:

I dont do the money glitches anyways so Im good.

PryzelPosted:

This feels a bit harsh, but no doubt they need to punish people who cheat, simple. But I think removing their money would be a sufficient punishment.

ZayevPosted:

Micro-transactions RUIN GAMES
This is a prime example of that because if GTA V wasn't money based then it would be fun, like GTA IV was and still is 6 years after it's release. It would be nice if money was easier to get, but with missions paying barely anything and even killing the mechanic for 42 bucks taken out, it is darn near impossible to make a million dollars.

GTA has become the worst type of game, it is now essentially a pay to win type of game. If you give them more money you can buy the fancy cars, guns etc, if you don't then you can either glitch for money or just live without these cars and guns.

If the next GTA has micro-transactions, I am not buying it because the same will happen again.

R3voPosted:

This is why I quit playing, all rockstar cares about is making more money. They spend so much time developing patches to fix the money glitches so people will buy their stupid cash cards then instead of working on heists they are working on porting GTA to other consoles and pc. All they want is money and I know that is kinda the point when you make a big game like GTA V but it would be nice if they respected the people who bought their shitty game.

EffectivePosted:

Kayleigh We only glitch because fxcking heists aren't out!

FFS Rock star get your SH1T together


I glitch to get all my stuff and look cool :)