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GTA 5 Online Adding $6/Month Subscription, Comes With Cash And Rewards Every Month

GTA Online is still going strong and Rockstar is further supporting it with a new membership called GTA+.

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Rockstar Games has announced a new subscription offering for Grand Theft Auto V's multiplayer mode, GTA Online. GTA+ is a new membership program launching March 29 on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S that provides members with access to various extras and bonuses. The subscription costs $6/month.

Members get an allotment of GTA $500,000 every month into their Maze Bank accounts, as well as discounts on vehicle upgrades and special cosmetics. The bonuses will change each month, and the first have now been revealed and can be seen below.

GTA+ March 29-April 27 Bonuses

  • GTA$500,000 delivered automatically to your Maze Bank Account.
  • The Principe Deveste Eight — along with a complimentary Hao’s Special Works upgrade for it before it is made available to purchase by the general public — plus the HSW Orange Trip and HSW CMYK Glitch Liveries.
  • The Auto Shop located in La Mesa, introduces an assortment of gameplay updates from Los Santos Tuners. Current Auto Shop owners can relocate to La Mesa at no additional cost.
  • Waived LS Car Meet Membership fees. Current LS Car Meet members with GTA+ will be reimbursed GTA$50,000 during this event period.
  • Yacht owners can upgrade to the Aquarius Super Yacht at no additional cost.
  • The Gussét Frog Tee and Broker Prolaps Basketball Top and Shorts automatically added to your wardrobe.
  • The Conveyor Livery for the Mammoth Avenger, HVY APC, and TM-02 Khanjali.
  • A selection of free paints and emblems for the Auto Shop.
  • 3X GTA$ and RP on Hao’s Special Works Race Series.
  • 2X Car Meet Rep on the Street Race Series.
Introducing GTA+
Introducing GTA+

Additionally, Rockstar announced that there will be "special" GTA+ Shark Cards available to buy from the PlayStation and Microsoft Stores that have extra allotments of cash beyond normal. What's more, GTA+ members will get "exclusive rewards" from places like Legendary Motorsport, Hao's Special Works, Maze Bank Foreclosures, DockTease, and other stores in GTA Online.

Rockstar also confirmed that GTA Online's regular online events will "continue as normal" for everyone, regardless of their membership status.

As mentioned, GTA+ costs $6/month and is available only on PS5 and Xbox Series X|S. Players must own a copy of GTA V or GTA Online's standalone edition, and members can cancel anytime.

GTA Online is already a juggernaut through its various microtransactions, and the game's revenue is likely to surge even further with this new subscription offering.

In addition to the ongoing updates for GTA Online, Rockstar is already "well underway" in the development of Grand Theft Auto 6, or whatever the next entry will be called. Rockstar also just recently launched GTA V and GTA Online for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S with various upgrades, and you can now upgrade for a special, lower rate.

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the golden age of gaming has come to an end

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@teshammutna: That golden age died with the first horde of dumbasses who bought season passes, 10 years ago.

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@teshammutna: Died and buried with the PS2/Gamecube era. It's been dead for a long time, people are just realizing it now.

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@teshammutna: It died once game companies realized what they could do with a Internet connected console.

You can't even guarantee a game will be the same game you bought as a patch could come at any time and change it. They seem to be able to put expirations on games now as always connected game are useless without a connection (looking at you Gran Turismo 7.)

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@teshammutna: It's long gone. At least AAA gaming is mostly dead.

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I wish people would stop playing this so Rockstar finally gets the motivation to make a new game.

I hate this WOW milking model.

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Unmitigated greed.

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They'd sell you your own mother if they had the chance

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@Dilandau88: Read this in "Belethor's" voice from Skyrim.

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@Dilandau88: No they wouldn’t. It would be a graphical representation of your mother. And it would only cost one whale shark card to spend thanksgiving with her.

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Lmao

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Lol.

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Nobodoyyyyyyy wants thissssssss Rockstar. Give it up

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@gotdamncj: I'm not sure I follow. $6 alone is worth the 500k in game cash, but also a slew of other bonuses on top? If one were a frequent player who spends real world money on GTA Online funds, this absolutely makes sense. Not for you? Okay. Move on.

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@mgvsquared: Oh look at you defending this crap. You are the problem.

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@rolento25: Defending? Lol. Hardly.

No, the real problem is the pre-pubescent freaks that populate GTA Online and make it such an unpleasant experience. The only thing I'm defending is Rockstar's intelligence to capitalize on clear money-making schemes. In all fairness, GTA+ absolutely makes sense, and I'd absolutely pay for it if the experience were worth it. The real people that you should be pointing blame at are the parents that let their immature children play this game to begin with. Since when is paying for online currencies a "new" or "unwanted" thing? There's clearly a market for it. Rockstar has been selling shark cards since the inception of GTA Online and people are whining about a hardly inventive subscription service that makes no difference in their lives whether they utilize it or not? Really?

My god.

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@mgvsquared: sorry but you certainly are part of the problem. Go validate this bs to people who care. I’m glad most folks in the comment feed sees through the crap these companies are trying.

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@cyberpunk_2077: Generally people who vehemently disagree with something are the most vocal in a comment section. You won't find many defenders white knighting anything and I most certainly am not, rather, just pointing out that people are caring way too much about an added feature that does not affect their free game experience in the slightest beyond the already-implemented pay-to-win structure of shark cards. GTA Online is completely separate from the development of GTA VI, so I'm really curious why anyone really cares about this at all. Don't like it? Don't buy it. I'm so confused why people don't want something they don't have to buy. It's like if Wendy's added a strawberry frosty. Don't want it? Don't get it. You can still get the chocolate one.

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@mgvsquared: Only that example doesn't work because once Rockstar realizes this is yet another, viable method to squeeze cash out of people because their core game just does not function... Well, they will, and they will continue to do so in GTA6 and so on. The only choice we as a community have is to tell them enough is enough. GTA5 had so much potential, but not being able to unlock anything through doing missions ruined the entire game.

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@Godly_Atheist: The thing is Rockstar seems to disagree. Based on their numbers, unless its a total lie, GTA Online is alive and well and they seem eager to continue to support it well into the future. Do I think it will live beyond GTA VI? Hard to say. Eventually it will cease to exist as it is currently and maybe it will get an engine and graphical upgrade to the new setting, whatever it turns out being. I'm curious to see what they'll do. Ultimately I just play Story Mode because that's where the game shines. Sometimes I dabble in Online and the few times I did I actually had fun and never felt once I needed to buy anything to enjoy the chaos-y sandbox nature of it all.

I just don't see Rockstar changing the GTA Online formula that has been around since it's inception. It seems like the silent majority of the active playerbase is in agreement with them. Either + will succeed or it will fail, but either option affects the current game in exactly 0 ways.

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