Actually, Rockstar wanted to gift its GTA 5 Online players a car for Christmas, but this now takes money from the recipients’ pockets.
For Christmas, the team from RockstarGames wanted to surprise its GTA 5 Online community with a special gift: A new car was added to the online selection, which they made available for free to all players on December 25.
Although “free” was displayed in the pricing, players had a lot of money deducted. A bitter Christmas surprise.
Albany Hermes actually free – Expensive surprise
With the Christmas gift, Rockstar meant well. In GTA 5 Online, the community often gathers for races, shootouts, and illegal activities.
Those who want to stand out drive up in a flashy car. Regularly, the developers bring new rides into the game that can be tuned up by the community. Lowering, adding spoilers, upgrading transmissions, and installing a hissing turbocharger into the new mean machine. This makes the car race-ready and allows it to outrun opponents.
However, the new cars are expensive – often costing more than a million GTA$. So, for a car, one must invest several hours of gameplay or real money. 1.25 million GTA-dollars costs about 15€.
All the more wonderful was the surprise that Rockstar gave away the new muscle car, the Albany Hermes. Instead of 535,000 GTA$, the Hermes was free.
Players who logged in on December 25 could grab the vehicle at Southern San Andreas SuperAutos and click on the “Free” symbol. Then the Albany Hermes should be added to the garage for free.
But soon, the new muscle car owners noticed that now they were missing a chunk of money. To be exact: 535,000 GTA$
The forums are overflowing with reports from players who rightfully are angry with the developers. When they clicked on the free offer, money was suddenly deducted from them. So far, Rockstar has not addressed this issue. We hope they will soon respond and reimburse the amount that was wrongfully deducted from the players.
Meanwhile, Rockstar has officially addressed the problem and stated that they are working on a solution.
Update: Rockstar is now distributing the deducted 535,000 GTA-dollars to the accounts. There is currently no talk of repeating the action. However, players from the community report that they received the 535,000 GTA-dollars even though they did not purchase the car. So the car is free for players.
To the snow fans:
As Rockstar has now officially confirmed, the snow returns to GTA 5 Online for the New Year’s celebration. Presumably, the white stuff will lie on the streets from December 31 to January 1 and invite for drifting.
Are you still missing the necessary change for GTA 5 Online or do you want to quickly top up the “stolen” 535,000 GTA$? No problem. Here we show you 10 ways to earn money quickly in GTA 5 Online.
