The rumours are true. Grand Theft Auto Online has micro-transactions, and they’ll cost between £1.99 and £13.49. This will buy you individual packs of in-game money.

Eurogamer has spoken to people with early access to Grand Theft Auto Online, and has the details. There will be 4 GTA Online currency cards, with the following UK prices:

- $100,000 Red Shark Cash Card – £1.99
- $200,000 Tiger Shark Cash Card – £3.49
- $500,000 Bull Shark Cash Card – £6.99
- $1,250,000 Great White Shark Cash Card – £13.49

With less than a week before the online modes go live, it seems unlikely that these details will change too severely.

The price of items will vary between the single-player game and Online. So a property that may cost several million in your own game will far cheaper in the Online mode. The most expensive property will set you back $400,000. Conversely, weapon and car mods will be more expensive online so that they’re out of reach when you first start playing.

So, buy spending your real world cash on in-game currency, a low-level player can get faster access to improved vehicles and weaponry.

We can expect full details about GTA Online to be confirmed by Rockstar very soon.

I hate this shit

That's actually not bad. Mind you this is in addition to being able to earn money in the game like you always have.

Ugh.

^^
EA does this, they are the devil's sons. Rockstar do it, it's "not bad".

Yeah, I hate when games do this.

Mr. Chilly wrote:

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EA does this, they are the devil's sons. Rockstar do it, it's "not bad".

Rockstar:
"Give us some more money, and we'll make your in-game experience better"

EA:
"Give us all your money, and we'll give you Level 2"

There's a difference.

Actually, it won't make it better at all. All the people buying shit loads of these things are going to be annoying as fuck when playing online, while other people who don't have money to burn sit back and get slaughtered. People are already lunatics on GTA enough as it is lol.

I hate any kind of micro-transaction shit. It's worse than DLC...

I don't go for it when it's available, but I see why they do it. It's good business.

Don't get all Triple H on me

I'm taking a class on the video game industry. We're learning about stuff like this.

lol. But I see why the do it too - to make even more money. It still sucks balls...

Agreed Chilly. Hate when people can just have everything cause they're rich

I'd pay $15 if it got me the Great White Shark card. At least it's not fifty dollars.

It does suck though.

Batman wrote:

Agreed Chilly. Hate when people can just have everything cause they're rich

wat

Like, in video games when people can just buy their way to the top cause they have money.
IE: Runescape, you can buy a bunch of shit using real life money, instant level 100's.

Oh. I'd rather work my way up then pay for it. Makes it more fun. Unless its hard.

Fuck.

I have no idea what you are all talking about with this micro-transaction business? Is it something similar to how they introduced those err starter-pack thingys for Battlefield 3 to give the lazier, unskilled kiddies the upper hand against people who'd been working their asses off over time to rank up and earn their guns the hard way?