One GTA Online player has amassed more than $1 trillion in in-game money

Rockstar has confirmed that GTA 5 Online players exploiting the game’s mechanics have stolen trillions of dollars, in-game currency worth millions in the real world.

That’s a lot of violently yellow Truffade Adders.

The developer has taken action against online embezzlers but stopped short of banning them, instead sending them to a ‘cheater’s pool’ – a session that pits players against other cheaters/misbehaving users and forces them to wear a dunce cap.

Their actions are a little more serious than the gamers in there who have simply been quitting jobs mid-mission (another GTA crime), given that GTA dollars are available as in-game purchases, $1million being worth about £5.




A chart of the game’s richest players shows that one gamer, ‘epiicmoddingtobi’, has amassed more than $1 trillion ($1,109,674,917,679).

GTA Online – where law-breaking is encouraged, to an extent

This equates to just under £12 million worth of purchasable cash cards, or a hell of a lot of races (as these slowly accrue GTA dollars too).

Online video games are dogged by people trying to manipulate glitches to their advantage, something Rockstar is trying to crack down on.

‘To keep the gameplay environment as fair as possible for legitimate players, we routinely do sweeps to separate out cheaters and modders, and to reverse any illegitimate transactions, a Rockstar representative said on an online forum.

‘These sweeps are based on in-game automated detection, examination of suspicious gameplay statistics, and also manually-reviewed evidence submitted by the Community.’