A player asked Rockstar for GTA$75,000 in compensation in GTA 5 Online, but received GTA$32 million. But he won’t touch the money, he fears Rockstar could book it back.
This is the situation: We reported on MeinMMO last week about the lucky guy who actually only reclaimed a small amount of in-game money from Rockstar, GTA$72,000, but received over $32 million.
The site PCGamesN has now conducted an interview with the lucky guy.
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How did the problem come about?? Reddit user Skleros explains he was buying supplies for the bunker when his game crashed:
When I got back online, I noticed that while the money was gone, the supplies hadn’t arrived yet. I wrote a ticket hoping Rockstar would give me a refund (yes, I’m stingy, even for small amounts). The next thing that came was I was greeted with this message in the screenshot.”
On the message held then that RockStar had reimbursed him over $32 million. This amount of GTA Dollars would equate to around €250 if purchased from the shop via Shark Cash Cards.
Does he benefit now? Not really. The player says he has no idea how this could have happened. But he won’t touch the money in case Rockstar demands the money back.
“Insurance Fraud” in MMOs
Does that happen more often? It sometimes happens that “money magically” multiplies when support intervenes directly.
It happened to me many years ago in MMORPG WoW that after a support ticket I had significantly more gold on my account than before.
At the time I had a lot of gold in WoW because I had been making money in the auction house with dubious deals and crafts for months. Because the gold limit was so tight back then, I spread my fortune across multiple characters: So it was a “valuable target” for hackers.
Apparently my account was going to be robbed by hackers who wanted to take the money off my character and mail it to their own twinks.
However, I was able to cancel this heist and file a ticket with Blizzard Support, who investigated the process, locked the hackers out of my account, and reversed the process.
Only a short time later, a thick gold check from Blizzard was in the mail – although the money that was supposedly stolen was not gone.
In the end, “magically” I suddenly had a million more gold in my account.
So a kind of “insurance fraud” in MMOs does happen from time to time. But it is relatively rare that such strokes of luck are then made public. Most of those who grow their gold this way will probably just shut up and smile quietly.