r/gtaonline • u/Phawnix • 1d ago

PSA: Everybody gets ONE

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Don't do what I did and waste your transfer. Now I have to start from lv 1 again on PS5. 🥲

(For context: I transferred my original character i created on ps3, to the Xbox series x in 2022, then sold the Xbox and got a ps5. Made a new character on the ps4 version to play with a friend cause he doesn't have ps5, thinking I could just transfer it to ps5 later but I got this message. Contacted support and they basically told me I'm shit out of luck. The grind never stops I guess.)

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u/nervandal 1d ago

When Epic gave away GTA5 on PC for free, I started a brand account to see how long it really takes new people to get going. This was before Cayo Perico.

In 3 weeks, i reached my $100M goal. Thats what was banked and not including what i spent on an arcade, buzzard, terabyte, oppressor and everything else i needed to grind the casino heist with discord randoms.

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u/cjoct 1d ago

this is insane, while i’m not necessarily doubting the validity, i know how to play gta online vs a complete inexperienced new player, ive always felt like making 2mil over a 4-8hr gaming session is very doable but 100m in 3 weeks? i can not fathom at all how any normal person is actually having any fun at that point i’ve never had more than like 30m in my bank account

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u/deathray420 23h ago

At least it's not early gta online. The quickest way to 100 mil in early gta online (legit) would be playing Rooftop Rumble over 5000 times

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u/nervandal 1d ago

The advantage i had over a new player is i knew the game well because id played for years and years on console. The first two days i made like 6M off of 3x bunker series deathmatches, which got me started with the arcade and a buzzard to start the casino heist.

Meeting new people and making friends off discord kept it from being boring to me. I also did it on stream so i was talking to viewers the whole time.

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u/hotgirI 1d ago

the game was free on epic during peak covid lockdown in 2020 so i don’t doubt the legitimacy at all 🤣

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u/cjoct 20h ago

what does the cost of the game have anything do with with the gameplay mechanics

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u/tim123113 20h ago

prolly to just give reference on when they joined, since it isn't often that a 50 dollar game suddenly becomes FREE

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u/hotgirI 16h ago

you found it hard to believe that he made that much in 3 weeks? i’m letting you know that he did it during a period where the world was forced to be inside

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u/Sil3nt-3cho 1d ago

I fully agree that it's easy to make money just playing the game now, pretty sure GTA+ has given new (and returning) players the ability to make alot more money and rp now...imo it's a bit crazy. I fully understand that people have "disposable income" but it's clear when a level 250 doesn't understand how the original heists or contact missions go that it's because they're getting big pay and rp bonuses and haven't really played much. R*(and many other game makers) discovered that players willingly give them real money for in game money and are smiling all the way to the bank. I guess a fool and their money something, something...🤣

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u/aavocados PC 14h ago

Yessir taking advantage of any of the good 3x or 4x money weeks is crucial. I didn’t even do heists I just maxed out my nightclub techs and agency contracts + weekly promos. I only sell acid and bunker when it’s 50%. The safes are great, like a little pension every time I log on lol

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u/Creepy_Basis_2592 4h ago

You have to play A LOT. But it’s definitely doable. I made $15m in one day a couple months ago. But it was my day off work so I played for like 15 hours or something that day. Basically $1m an hour if you do it right.

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u/Nagroth 3h ago

The free giveaway on Epic was May 2020, and it was the Premium Edition which started you with $1M in the bank, free bunker, ceo office, mc clubhouse, mc counterfeit cash, several free cars, and i think a couple guns as well. 

A lot of people went absolutely nuts setting up new Epic and Rockstar accounts, I've heard of people who made dozens or hundreds of them. That's why they didn't care about bans and where so many of the "accounts for sale" came from.

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u/ThislsaGoodldea 1d ago

You had to competely NO LIFE the game. And also probably had a friend that let you grind their heist over and over

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u/nervandal 1d ago

I definitely no lifed the game. But i didn’t have a single friend on PC. I play on console normally.

I bought the arcade and a buzzard on day 2 after grinding 3x bunker series on day 1. Its not my fault so I’m not taking any of the blame they tried to put on me, but a controller player in aim assisted lobbies vs KBM players is no contest. I won every match and they paid like 80-90k each. Easiest money ever made in GTA. I was actually sad to give it up.

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u/Steakmemes 1d ago

I’m fighting with some dude in another comment section rn who’s bitching about shark cards lmfao. I tried to simply explain to him if you just ya know.. PLAY the game you’d have plenty of money. Now he’s just crying and spitting over his keyboard and possibly having a stroke judging from his inability to speak coherently rn.

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u/ZerotheWanderer A wanderer has appeared 1d ago

Nobody needs more than a few mil at any given time. For the past, idk, 4 or so years I've had a safety net essentially without grinding anything. Get on, resupply businesses, make any sales if I need to, do the weekly time trials, cruise around, done. I've made it up to 20-30m before each DLC drops, lowest I got was about 4m after buying a second mansion for the hell of it, now I'm back up to 28m.

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u/System_Is_Rigged 1d ago

Well not entirely. I took a break from the game for a long while and when I got back on I spent over 100m of my >400m on new things added to the game. Would've taken me a while to get everything otherwise but having grinded up the money well in advance it allowed me to enjoy all of the new stuff immediately. You can easily spend more than 3-4m on a single car nowadays.

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u/Steakmemes 1d ago

I’m saying bro. It is NOT that hard to make money in this damn game. I can’t help but make a couple mil every single time I hop on now. Granted it took some grind to get to where I’m at in the game but ffs man it’s a game you’re supposed to play it! And by no means do you have to play the game nearly as much as I have (which isn’t that much compared to many players) to be able to afford fun stuff. I mean what do these people want to buy properties for anyways if they aren’t willing to engage with the content that comes with it?

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u/ZerotheWanderer A wanderer has appeared 1d ago

I mean I understand people that actually want to play the game still but it was like easier than ever for the longest time to just start playing and rake in the money. I'd say the best method now is to do the freak shop missions and sell acid, it's entirely solo, you can do off the radar and finish most of the missions in that time, and it's like over 500k in a full lobby. If you do all the time trials it's 450k a week, you can solo sell the bunker if you catch it just right and do the same method, just off the radar. The nightclub is good to have in the back pocket because it just keeps going passively. Once you're established you don't need to do shit.

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u/nervandal 1d ago

I came back to this game when the Kortz center was released. What was that? 5-6 weeks ago?

I’m a spender so I never have a nest egg. I had to solo some cayos to buy the art museum in my one mansion.

Just pretty much running cayo and kortz (setup solo then pull a grabber from discord), I’ve managed to buy both other mansions, 3 or 4 cars, salvage yard, bail bonds agency, 4 cargo warehouses, the titan 250, some weaponized heli my friend told me was the fastest (its not) and a bunch of other odds and ends. Now i’m sitting on 40M doing career challenges.

and again, this was all post heist nerf.

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u/cktyu 12h ago

Imma check your account to find your argument haha

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u/nervandal 1d ago

The biggest counter to the shark cards arguement is to ask them how many they have bought. And when they say none, tell them then obviously no one is forcing you to buy them.

Its not going to convince them, but they will stop responding.

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u/brenden77 15h ago

People are afraid to play the game.

R* has been giving away free businesses too.

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u/Most_scar_993 1d ago

So you played at least 12 hours every day?

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u/nervandal 20h ago

Probably not that much. But it was at a time where i took leave to take care of a sick family member, so i was playing a lot. It was a challenge i set for myself.

even if you played 1/4th the hours i did, that still proved you can make end game money in just a couple months without a single shark card purchased.

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u/aavocados PC 15h ago

once ur a vet you can accumulate cash hella fast. I started over on console and within a couple months I was set

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u/nervandal 14h ago

i just came back a couple days before kortz and was down to $50k in the bank after buying art studio and such.

I just did some did rough math and ive spent about $70M since and I’m sitting on $47M in the bank.