GTA Online's new subscription service is surprisingly expensive

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Rockstar Games is rolling out a new GTA Online membership program for PS5 and Xbox Series X|S players, offering exclusive bonuses, in-game cash, and extra rewards.

Titled GTA+, the subscription service will go live on March 29 and costs $5.99 a month, which is about £4.54 / AU$7.98. For that price, you’ll get access to a handful of rotating in-game bonuses, including vehicles, properties, liveries, upgrades, discounts, and GTA$500,000 (the game’s primary currency) in your character’s bank account each month.

For the first month, you can nab a car, a new property, a yacht upgrade, a bunch of bonuses, and more. Find the details of everything the first month of GTA+ includes below:

The rewards offered to subscribers will rotate each month. You’ll need to claim them through the GTA Online web browser before the month is up to permanently add them to your online profile.

Rockstar says the GTA+ benefits will be provided on top of regular GTA Online events, which will continue rolling out as normal.

Coming in at $5.99 a month, the rolling cost of GTA+ won't break the bank, but an annual subscription will set you back just under $72 / £54 / AU$95. That's not cheap.

The recently released PS5 and Xbox Series X editions of GTA Online usually cost around $19,99 / £17.99 / AU$ 30.95, although you can currently pick up these editions for just $9.99 / £8.99 / AU$ 15.47 thanks to a three-month, post-launch discount period. If you’ve played GTA 5’s multiplayer on PS4, you can also claim the PS5 version of GTA Online for free until June 14.

That means a 12-month subscription to this new premium service will cost more than triple the price of the base GTA Online game. Given it only includes additional in-game bonuses and perks, rather than fresh