Meet GTA Online's Billionaires
There are lots of ways to make money in GTA Online. You can rob stores, pull off heists, steal and sell cars, perform dangerous contract jobs, or engage in illegal street racing. But getting to a billion dollars takes more than just small-time jobs. Getting a cool billion takes grit, cajones, and above all, a lot of time on your hands.
Take Reddit user jamcar70. They recently shared their player profile on the GTA Online subreddit and revealed both their bank account balance and their total playtime. There in black and white was the balance of $1,000,341,581, and above it, a total playtime of two years, 34 days, and four hours. That's about 18,350 hours of nothing but GTA Online, and averages out to about six hours of gaming per day since GTA Online’s release back in 2013.
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While this might sound like jamcar70 made GTA Online their full-time job, they admit in the comments that it really didn't feel that way. Mostly because many of those hours were spent AFK watching security cameras for his nightclub as it slowly siphoned cash away from NPCs.
"Only active an hour or so a day, remaining time is AFK whilst businesses & safes refilled," wrote jamcar70. "Passive income to $1B. I know, slow-ass way to do it, but it is what it is."
A billion dollars is an accomplishment regardless of how it was done, but what do you say to two billion? Just four months before jamcar70 ticked over a cool billion, another Redditor by the name of ChloeWade revealed their account balance was sitting at $2 billion in cold, hard cash. Unlike jamcar70, who just waited for the economic winds to blow hard enough in his favor to accumulate all that scratch, ChloeWade actually earned their billions
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