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Comment by MattBearman | Hacker News Reader

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Wow, didn't expect this to reach the top of HN! To answer some points raised:

Maybe I am taking a game a bit too seriously, but my friends and I have put a lot of time into GTA online, and had a load of fun. I just don't want RS to do something that could ruin that.

I agree that in the GTA world $500k isn't really 'rich', maybe the title was a little link baity, but my point remains, I truly believe that $500k would have a detrimental effect on the game.

If this never reaches rockstar, or they ignore it, I will simply have to exercise some self control and keep my bank balance > $500k at all times.

I too wouldn't actually be that averse to Rockstar wiping the servers clean, as long as I didn't have to play through the tutorial again :)

And finally - loose / lose - damn it, and I'm usually a stickler for grammar, my only excuse is that I wrote this pretty quick.

Thanks for all the feedback, and if any one on HN is from Rockstar or knows someone, I'd love to hear what they think about it.

An alternative would be for you to blow that $500k on some expensive cars, and then drive them all into the ocean.

This.

It's an extra mission: You just got some illicit bag of money you have to get rid of, so buy cars from a shady dealer and drive em to the compactor (there is a car compactor in GTAV, right?).

The Brewster's (half) millions mission

Right. Another alternative is to call yourself Santa Claus and give it all away to other players during December.

Sure, but the other players are sitting on 500k as well, so the warm feelings of charity are a little lost.

Only to those who have been playing during the month of October... So by December there will be a new wave of users who didn't receive the nice charity of half a mil.

Ah... That's why I should read the entire article.

Bring on the Christmas.

Buy expensive car. Don't buy insurance. Apply sticky bomb. Kiss $500K good by. I'm assuming this works. I have not bought a car yet so I don't know if they come with some sort of automatic/permanent insurance. If that doesn't work, steal car, pimp out LS customs. Apply sticky bomb. Rinse and repeat until $500K disappears.

This does make all garages completely worthless unless Rockstar lets us own an apartment and a garage later via patch...

*quickly

hey - you asked for it by claiming grammar stickler status :)

I have to say I agree with you man.

I'm still working my way through the single player. I've played a few multiplayer games and it's been awesome. I haven't had any of the server pain that other folks are experiencing. It seems a bit silly that I'm about to increase my savings by 1000% through pure chance.

$500k is not going to ruin the game. That's chump change at the higher ranks. What is going to ruin the game is R* focusing on GTA$ instead of fixing the serious gameplay flaws like keeping your friends in one session and giving worthwhile activities to progress together. And give us heists already.

If anyone has played WoW before, it's like you go into a zone and for the next 20 levels there's literally only 1 quest that's worth doing because all the other quest rewards and xp are terrible. But there's an ability to replay this quest so you do it because that's the only efficient way to level up. So Blizzard nerfs the replaying of the good quest, doesn't add in better quests or scale up rewards, and gives away what seems like a lot of money (because you're low level) to keep people from seeing the real problem.

You could always just give the money to someone else.

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