Need a distraction for Oct1st you say? WELL YOU GOT IT!

GTA Online or Grand Theft Auto Online, the multiplayer component to GTA 5, will launch two weeks after GTA 5 on October 1, 2013. GTA Online will be free for everyone who bought a copy of the game. The events of GTA Online take place BEFORE the events of GTA 5.

GTA Online is a dynamic and persistent online world for 16 players that begins by sharing gameplay features, geography and mechanics with GTA 5, but will continue to expand and evolve after its launch with new content created by Rockstar Games and the GTA community, according to Rockstar.[n]






A couple million people will be focused on fake heist and wont even bother to notice the real one that will take place on Oct1st

reply to post by WanderingThe3rd


I think they have raised it to 32 players. I don't have a copy myself but it looks like good fun.

Dang, if only all those gamers werent going to be busy playing a game there would be hope that the world would be saved.

reply to post by ImaFungi


Same thing with all the people watching tv, listening to music, reading books and those going outside!!! And I'm sure I miss a ton of lousy people who don't make peace!!!


That said, that game looks sick, in every sense of the word... Wish I could play it... lol

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Like many of America’s teens and twenty-somethings, legendary activist investor Carl Icahn has been anxiously awaiting the release of Grand Theft Auto V. He may never buy an actual copy of the video game, and he likely doesn’t spend a whole lot of time on an Xbox 360, but few stand to gain more from the highly anticipated release last Tuesday from Rockstar Games than the corporate agitator and billionaire investing savant, who has a 12.6% stake in parent company Take-Two Interactive Software, Inc TTWO -1.63%.
For Icahn, who has owned a sizable chunk of the company since 2009, the long wait is paying off: Through three days, GTA V — which spent about five years in production — grossed a record $1 billion in sales,, the company announced Friday. That eclipses the mark set for a video game by Activision’s Call of Duty: Black Ops 2, which took 15 days to hit $1 billion after its release last year. In anticipation, the stock has been steadily rising this year from $11.22 per share in January to $17.43 per share as of Friday — a 55% increase. Take-Two has come a long way since rejecting a $2 billion buyout offer from Electronic Arts Inc. in 2008 and then watching its valuation plummet by 75% by the following year. With 11.7 million shares, Icahn — who is worth more than $20 billion — is the largest individual shareholder of Take-Two, a company that has long justified its existence on the shoulders of its Grand Theft Auto franchise. Can betting heavy on the strength of one video game franchise really be a winning business strategy?

They're at 1.5 now... i need to invest in some stocks holy moly, now just the most expensive copy was 150$ now take 1.5 billion and divide. thats a 10 million, cheapest version was $70, so you can really bump it around 19 million.

so 19 million people that will be playing this game tuesday because of their online release

I love the game I bought it the day it came out. I don't really play the missions at all, I enjoy driving around and doing all the other fun stuff the game has to offer.

reply to post by desertguy


its so possible future serial killers will get their fantasies some where else and not do it in real life..
lol j/k but i bet it helps

reply to post by desertguy


My youngest boy does exactly that with any games he can play... He finds stuff you wouldn't know are there... lol

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That's a lot of money to put in the bank... I agree, we should prepare and invest in GTA6, if there is ever one, which will probably happen...

reply to post by NowanKenubi


Well, here it is, Oct. 1st. Our government is shut down. GTA 5 online is live. But, I can't get on. It keeps crashing! Lol, so much for a distraction!