The billionaire club of GTA Online has now gained a new member. A user shows how much playtime he invested in the game before reaching this huge milestone.
How hard is it? Becoming a billionaire in GTA Online is a tough task. At least, when done with the officially allowed means. Hackers can gain cash in a matter of moments, but they violate the game’s rules and risk being banned.
Those who want to accumulate such a sum with heists and other “legal” methods need a lot of patience. A player recently celebrated themselves on reddit with a thread titled “Finally! 1 billion.”
Player earned money while being afk
How much time did he need? The creator of the thread, jamcar70, showed in his post a screenshot of his Social Club profile. There, you can find information about his money. He currently has 10 million GTA dollars as cash. One billion GTA dollars is stored in his bank account.
From the accumulated playtime, it can be seen that he has already pumped 2 years, 34 days, and 4 hours into the account. We include the screenshot from reddit here:
How much time does he play daily? In the comments, a user took the effort to calculate what these 2 years and 34 days of playtime mean when calculated from the release in 2013. “That’s nearly 6 hours per day, every day since the release in 2013,” writes MIster–WrenchH. But this shouldn’t just be regarded as active playtime, other players mention.
How does it work? “I bet a large part of this time was spent being afk waiting for the businesses to fill up,” writes Matttombstone in the comments. This refers to a mechanic in GTA Online. For example, if someone owns a cocaine lab, they bring the ingredients to the lab and then wait hours for their team (NPCs) to process the ingredients into a product. That, in turn, can then be sold for profit. However, the drug labs only work if you are actually logged in to an online session. If you just stand around afk in the world, you will automatically get kicked from the session after a few minutes and be moved to single-player.
Such a mechanic, where a feature works in the background while playing GTA Online, can be found at various points in the game. And jamcar70 also utilized such a method. “Afk at the security cameras to maximize nightclub revenue,” writes the user. By watching the security cameras in the game, you are prevented from being ‘kicked for afk.’
Typically, the tactic is used so that one sits at the desk in the nightclub and activates the security cameras there. Then one can leave the console or PC and after hours collect the income that the businesses in GTA Online have generated. So it can be assumed that the user did not spend the 18,000 play hours actively in the game.
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