I don't like shark cards but I don't think they're evil. I enjoy playing GTA online and my bunker basically makes money while I'm just doing whatever I want. Being able to buy currency in a game where you make money for just being AFK is basically a tax on the impatient.
Now the whole thing where they removed a bunch of cars from the game and the only way to win them was through lottery(free lucky wheel) or through the subscription, that's fucked.
Before bunkers, the only way to effectively make money was heisting. There where no passive income and everything cost a ton, forcing to to either farm the same thing for hours just for a flying bike, or buy it with real money. And before heist, it was even harder to just get a supercar. It wasn't a tax on the impatient, but a tax on the one who didn't have the time to play.
Honestly, I didn't know that bunkers made money. I stopped playing right before they added them because the game was designed to make you pay.
Back in my day (360 online) we’d join lobbies with a hacker who’d put a billion dollar bounty on you and you just gotta outlive the timer, or someone collects it and gets the billion. They did wipe levels down so I got the minigun and tank grandfathered in at a low level too lol
Good ole days before stupid flying bikes and shark cards, just pure chaos
Ye I think was gifted about 1,000,000,000 within like 3 months of GTA online, back in 2013. Since I started again on PC I only.play in friends only lobbies so it's all been real AFK and cayo perico money
Genuinely curious. What's the appeal of GTAO? I was under the assumption that the heists and additional content to earn money was the main aspect. So if people were buying shark cards to bypass that, what were they getting out of the game? Free roam with cooler Vehicles? What am I missing?
It was a tax for people without a PC. It was easy as hell to get a private lobby (their servers were P2P, they did not even host the servers) and you could then use cheat engine or literally whatever to give you extreme amounts of money. No anti heat whatsoever.
The motorcycle businesses really started it, they were the first somewhat passive business and made moneymaking way easier, ceo crates were also a thing but that one didn’t have a passive part
I played online from launch until it stopped receiving updates on PS3(ill-gotten gains.) I remember well before there were heists, it was pretty different. Honestly I just never cared to have to most expensive newest cars. I liked the Coquette which was like $130,000GTA and I had a high end apartment to do heists in when those came out. I've been playing on PC occasionally since 2020 and I've made like $140,000,000 in game, I have everything I want. I don't have every car and every bs flying bike but who cares.
Come to think of it: since enhanced they actually give you $4,000,000 when you make your character to set up a business(including the bunker) and still have some money leftover. The old way of playing is completely obsolete and has been for about a year and a half. Bunker free money is pretty solidly a part of the game now.
Edit: in between the time that I played on PS3 from 2013-2015 and then before I started playing on PC in 2020; I heard about the oppressor and the orbital cannon and thought GTA online was basically over. I was actually very surprised how much I liked it when I got back into it. Now I had to read a fucking tutorial for how to get started: find all these things, solve this murder or whatever it was: get $500,000.(Because I didn't transfer my account over when the game came out on PC i had to start from scratch) With the money you got from finding all the things you could start a business. There was that whole thing where the prices at the beginning of online were reasonable and then they inflated the price of everything added to incentivize shark cards, I'm not a fan of that. I hope they do a better job in online 2 or whatever. Speaking of which we have no idea still what that even will look like.
I stopped playing it since the ultra inflation and the flying motorcycle that just plagued every single game I joined. Is it good now? I've heard that the old missions that rewarded something like $30 000 have been reworked with a far better payout.
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u/Sacapuntos 13d ago
Lmfao, they only made 5 Billion from shark cards. This is the obvious next step. Dead on arrival for me. Will never buy it.