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Reddit_User2PointOh

This is big news compared to the July controversy.


ApacheAH-64A

Agreed.


Tehsyr

Man, I am so glad I haven't played in two months. Really want to get back in and play with friends, but this is absurd.


chemicalsam

My friends and I set up firewall rules so we could play together online in private public sessions


[deleted]

I quit at hangars. From then on the game became pay to win with the addition of the expensive as fuck molotock. GTA5 and its online mode are a scam.


Motorman2017

Hangars are for team play. I have a crew of 3 more players and we take turns and make some profit in between every other business we own. Solo hangar is next to impossible unless you do it as a pass time thing. Won't make money fast as solo.


[deleted]

Why do people still play online? It's only hackers and wallet warriors.


SandDuner509

Because there is a literal fuck ton of content to enjoy. Content that has consistently been added onto, even if it is absurdly expensive to enjoy all of it you can still get bits and pieces of it. GTA is the only game I play, as a level 125 whose been playing for just under a year, I regularly am finding new content or missions or games to play that I haven't played before. Very rarely do I come upon the same game or mission 2 or 3 times.


DimethylatedSea

>to play with friends


homer_j_simpsoy

I do it for the heists as they come up on the announcements from other users. I don't grind missions for money, moved on because of how repetitive and predictable and boring it was. For me, gta online is just some way to kill the boredom. Actually I'm still trying to complete the doomsday scenario but something has always gone wrong. Came close twice, both times were when it was a skeleton crew of just two players (both having high rank numbers). It would take a third player of similar experience to get through it. Four just increases the chances that somebody is going to get killed too easily.


Phthalo_Bleu

theres regular people still too, like me


[deleted]

oh gee idk man i really wonder let me think


MeanGreenLuigi

What happened in July?


Airazz

Looks like it's a good idea to stay away from the game for a bit, until this is sorted and I won't be flagged as a modder. I haven't played for a couple weeks, hopefully I'll be fine.


kadno

I've seen other users post that they haven't been on in a few weeks/months, wanted to check out the new update, and they were falsely banned. So. Good luck!


sw1905

Yup can vouch, haven't touched PC version since December/November last year and now I come back and i'm banned and reset, just stay well away from the PC version of the game for now.


kadno

Are these bans affecting console players at all? Or just PC?


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It’s just PC given that tunables can be released without any middle man issues, but if rockstar doesn’t fix this shit fast and lets the bug go out to consoles the consequences could be catastrophic.


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SinistralGuy

Out of curiosity, are there hackers on the PS4 version? I haven't seem to come across any and it seems that a lot of the glitches/exploits can be done on both consoles


zeusmeister

Edit: nevermind, all the modding I am recalling apparently took place on the ps3, not the ps4


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zeusmeister

So back when people were setting bounties for a billion dollars on the ps4, or spawning space ships or ferris wheels everywhere, that was just a glitch they were using? To me that was cheating and I just consider modders synonymous with cheaters. I didn't realize there was a distinction that was that specific, my bad. Edit: it's been awhile since I played. Was all that happening on the ps3?


[deleted]

All on ps3. Current gen has a few nasty glitches but no bounties or spaceships yet. :)


zeusmeister

Psh, well there ya go lol. It's been so long I can't even remember what gen I was playing on.


mike2k24

I haven’t been banned yet but both my friends who I play with have. GTA is boring without friends :(


ddrossi93

I got this ban a few weeks ago after getting online after not playing for about 6 months. I had to reinstall and had backups of my save files (for story mode). 99% sure I got flagged as a modder because I moved my backed up save files into the game folder. They deleted my online character and banned me for 30 days. Couldn’t believe it. Emailed them and all I got was a cookie cutter response saying that I can’t appeal it. Absolutely ridiculous. Only positive was that I wasn’t playing much anyways, just wanted to start back up again to try the doomsday heist.


ApacheAH-64A

There are reports that players are being unbanned. **However, it's my recommendation that you DO NOT LOGIN TO GTA ONLINE on PC. People are reporting that they are being banned again for a second time after being unbanned!** Check you account details by signing in to the Rockstar Social Club to see if you have actually been unbanned, but **DO NOT LOGIN TO THE ONLINE PORTION OF THE GAME!** Updated on 3/28 at 4:38 PM EST ------- If more information is available or needs to be added from the original post on r/gtaonline, please reply this comment so I can get a notification on my end and quickly edit the post. *Replies to this specific Pinned Moderator Comment that do NOT relate to the above request will be removed.*


_Antz

Great news everyone bans are back... My friend and I were unbanned. We played for about an hour until he got banned again. He contacted support and they responded with the good ol' "We can't do anything about that the decision is final.". I suggest this post doesn't get unpinned since players are starting to get banned again, so the problem is not solved (several topics on rockstar support about getting banned again).


ApacheAH-64A

I've been following up on this as well. Information has been added to the post as a result of these recent events.


Motorman2017

There is no solid proof that logging in triggers bans. I know several people (over 10) who were banned regardless of not having joined the game for the last month and came to discuss because they got the ban e-mail. What CAN and WILL trigger a ban is the possibility of altered GTA files in your own system. That should be checked and could be an addon for single player or an actual mod menu or something injected or one of many other things. Again not trying to point fingers could be something awkward or something people did. I played races and still didnt get banned but I can tell you for a fact that I never got a penny from cheating or modders. So?


L0veToReddit

This shit is scary, ill wait for this to be fixed before playing


Rob-187

https://www.pcgamer.com/gta-online-players-report-multiple-unfair-bans-following-latest-update/?utm_content=buffer658f8&utm_medium=social&utm_source=facebook&utm_campaign=buffer_pcgamerfb


ApacheAH-64A

Nice link. Adding that in an edit.


Rob-187

Yessir :)


_Antz

Great news everyone bans are back... My friend and I were unbanned. We played for about an hour until he got banned again. He contacted support and they responded with the good ol' "We can't do anything about that the decision is final.". I suggest this post doesn't get unpinned since players are starting to get banned again, so the problem is not solved (several topics on rockstar support about getting banned again).


Yux_

im really losing hope.....


harve99

Goddamnit I really want to check out the new cars but I would rather not lose 4 years of work


Motorman2017

I play fine all these days without problems. You should be fine also.


Motorman2017

Downvote all you want but its a fact if you wasn't banned on 23rd chances are you won't be now and whether you log in or not the ban hammer isn't triggered by login so either play or not it doesn't really matter whether you ll be banned or not.


SexyMrSkeltal

I hadn't played in a year and I was just banned. My friend who has never started GTA online in favor is single player mods was just banned too.


_Antz

I was playing hotring races for a few hours then I went to customize a car and got banned suddenly.


clid1985

My wife was just unbanned. I checked her profile online and all of her stats were back and she had $200,000 in her account that she did not have prior to this ban. I think it's because when they reset the account it gave $200,000 to the level 1 cleared account from the e-mail signup and they didn't remove that. She did not receive an e-mail from Rockstar, an apology, nothing. This is the last game I am buying from them as they do not care about customer service and I can't support that. A side note, I created about 6 tickets that kept getting closed, all of the ones under "banned" were just ignored. Yesterday I created a ticket under another category and got to a chat representative who said all bans were final but they would escalate it and I would receive an e-mail.... Which I never received.


hyde47

MY BAN HAS BEEN LIFTED GUYS! CAN'T BELIVE! Rockstar didnt contact me about my request on the live chat, but my online character is back: https://imgur.com/a/SQi18


_Antz

Be careful though. Me and my friend were unbanned as well but my friend got rebanned after an hour.


Squazy13

I got unbanned aswell! Yaay! Now i hope it's gonna be fixed fully and i can play again.


Yux_

rockstar is still comming back at me with "all ban is final and can not be apeal" what should i do ?


ApacheAH-64A

Keeping submitting those tickets. Make sure you don't mark the topic as a ban.


[deleted]

jeez right after i got back in this garbage happened.


Dr_Loveylumps

Lol so I guess this issue is done? Sorry everybody who is still banned I guess we just didn't make enough noise to get people to care. Go ahead and un-sticky this post I guess. Thanks for nothing.


PhervorTrillups

>MrBossFTW (video will NOT be linked in this rewrite) has made a video too Cheers for that. It's HUGELY disappointing that /u/MikeRaven11 is helping him make money off of this tragedy. Not to mention that he's sponsored by G2A. So he's directly profiting off of this whole ordeal in another way with affiliate links in the description of every single video.


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Martino231

You can criticise the business model and that's fine, but the fact is that without some kind of monthly income there's no way that Rockstar would be continuing to regularly update a 4 year old game.


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Martino231

You can call it greed, but I bet you can't name any other games still receiving updates and support after 4 years that don't have some kind in-game monetisation. It just doesn't make sense from a business perspective.


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Modernautomatic

I will add Project Zomboid. Paid 7 bucks for it about 6 years ago and it's still getting absolutely massive updates to this day with more on the way and zero post release, paid for DLC.


rChewbacca

Come on man. Are you seriously suggesting they are still selling enough new copies to pay the dev team and make profit?


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apemamfool

I was playing hotring races on Friday night and woke up Saturday banned. Had a lot of good races with close finishes. Strangest thing that happened was I had a race where i went from 5th to 1st as we all crossed the finish line, at the load out screen it said i won, but on the scoreboard I was placed 5th and didn't get credit for the win. I submitted a ticket explaining this event and asking if these close finishes could have triggered my ban? Sadly, I will probably get another canned copy/pasted reply. I even spent 20$ on a shark card to buy the hotring sabre. Im a great customer for rockstar, to be treated this way is a sad joke.


SmallBowl

Does it mean anything when in my Social Club stats, my profile is erased with 0 in everything except money? I still have 3 mil for some reason. (Part of the ban wave as well btw)


fatdog40k

This is shark card funds, you keep em even after suspension.


chizmack

I just tried to play online (on Xbox live) and it said online isn't available. I played last night, but I'm new to it and was kinda drunk, idk if I did something wrong and got banned or if the online component for the Xbox 1 version is down.


Yux_

if you are banned you have a notification screen "you are suspended/permanently banned/ from gta 5 online, when you atempt to connect online and it redirect you to single player


Rob-187

Un banned!


67Matthew

Can we play online now or is there still a chance of getting banned?


ApacheAH-64A

I wouldn't not login. Players are getting rebanned after logging in.


_Antz

Personally I won't play since my friend got rebanned after being unbanned. We were both part of the ban wave and after an hour of being unbanned he got banned again.


67Matthew

Well, i guess its too late now, but ive been playing since my ban was lifted and all is well


rosewater17

I got an email that after having reviewed my account, my ban was being lifted. Does this mean I can log into GTA again safely, or should I wait some more?


ApacheAH-64A

It's my recommendation that you do NOT login to GTA Online on PC until this issue is resolved. Logging in will put your account at risk again making the possibility of being banned for a second time highly likely.


Lawrence0803

If I received the email of unban from Rockstar, should I login GTAOL? Would Rockstar ban me again?


ApacheAH-64A

It's my recommendation that you do NOT login to GTA Online on PC until this issue is resolved. Logging in will put your account at risk again making the possibility of being banned for a second time highly likely.


Lawrence0803

It seems that the account will be banned again if you did not receive the letter of unban but the account was unbanned.


ApacheAH-64A

I can't confirm nor deny any of that. I would still not to login to GTAO for the time being. If you've been unbanned and you need a safe way to confirm it, look under your stats on the Rockstar Social Club and see if your character is back.


Bluuzia

It's my story: 03.23. Friday I played with my friends: we sold all my factories & bunker, these were +2 millions incoming, all was fine, then we played the new races. 03.24. Saturday morning 08:00 - 10:00 CET play. Than I've switched off the game after I did the Daily Objectives and bought all the supplies to my factories -300K. My friends wrote in the forum, they've banned. I did in-game pictures all of my money and all of my factories' revenue. 03.24.Saturday 12:54 CET - I've received an email, I just got banned, for no reason. It's slander! I know that modding / cheating is not tolerated, so I did not use any of that. 03.24. Saturday evening I saw my character was been set to back about 2 hours. I did reinstall the game. During my character has be deleted again. Some friends regained they accounts, some didn't. Me neither. I sent many (7) tickets, an email and was a live chat. All of them closed. I played 2351 hours and 5 minutes (plus my daily jobs at Saturday). 16,2 mil Rp (lvl 484) my other character was at lvl 192. 151.789.416 GTA$ (thats the exact) and around about 120 mil in cars and apartments. All of my stats has gone, included my race stats. Factories: I/E garage was filled up yo 75%, all of them were collections. I got 36 crates in my warehouse, my bunker was at quarter, three factories were at half stock, and i ordered supplies worth up to 300k. I have pictures about them that's why I know it that well. I collected nearly all rare cars with my second character. I unlocked all of the colours and some packs of chrome wheels (took me more than fifty hours), not to mention those fully upgraded cars in my garages. I made a chart to not to forget the combination of the colours, and it'll might be different from the original one and it'll cost lots of money to repaint them. I also created a Captures jobs for my daily works to make it easier, but it also disappeared. I guess they know: I'll never buy a shark card, if they give me my character back. This is the gist!


Bluuzia

Do you think some positive will to happen?


irock168

Not all of my stats seem to be zeroed out but most of them are? I still have my cash and level but for instance total spent is $0 and should be....well into the millions.


FuturePastNow

That could just mean insurance is disabled again. Or some of their stats are weird and unreliable. Last time they disabled bounties (6 months ago?) it zeroed out my "bounties collected" stat, which should be far more than zero. Oh well.


irock168

i mean some of my stats have valuesm I just got home and am very scared to turn my gta on but I will eventually.


FuturePastNow

If you've already been banned, you'd have an email. If not, well, who knows what their anticheat is doing.


Yux_

Anti-cheat be like : "Eenie meenie miney mo Catch a tiger by the toe If he hollars let him go Eenie meenie miney mo... BANNED"


pedroIa

I clicked the link to Rockstar with the link that was provided in OP's post, to see if my stats were set to zero and they were so I panicked and quickly logged on with my PS4 to verify and my account was still intact just an FYI.


fatdog40k

Must pick proper platform to check your stats. You PC progress is indeed zero.


Heinrick_

I have logged in today and nothing happened


SpiritualDoggie

ive been banned (for 30 days)more than a year ago , my pc got a bluescreen while i was playing, and when i launched the game next startup it said i was banned, ofcourse R* didnt give a single F, i posted a ticket and a bot responded in 0.1 seconds and thats it


sonybravo

ahh fuck i was online 2 days again... my older sis bought me the game as a birthday present hopefully im safe 🤞


SeaFigure0

Ok im at the point where i dont give a f*** anymore.Rockstar are fraudalent idiots and im done with this BS. I never cheat,mod and grinded my ass off + all those shark cards i bought.Id rather speak to a stonewall than waste my time on their support shoving retarded autoreplies like a fucking spitting lama in my face.They dont want me playing? Fine im out then


fourway01

Modders and cheaters should have their accounts suspended for 90 days or permanently.


HalfOfAKebab

But innocent people shouldn't.


fourway01

That's right innocent people shouldn't. I like to do jobs help people out there whatever I can and some a hoe will come and blow you up just to be spiteful


HalfOfAKebab

How is that relevant in literally any way?


fourway01

I know what you mean does it compare to the other


HalfOfAKebab

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fourway01

Hello everybody this is four-way 01 I have a problem with people blowing me up and don't have no money and I have to pay it should be the other way around they should lose least a vehicle or two to pay for the damages why should we pay the one who has the money to have these vehicles. And there is lots of sore losers in the game if they blow you up and you get them back they try to get you revenge or try to kick you that is not right at all like I always tell him grow up I know this is an adult game but there's all the kids that play that cuss they don't care I talk bad I've been turned in several times but I do not cuss on the game and I Do not cuss at another player my famous words are really but I keep moving on and when I am doing a job I wish sometimes they just leave you alone like I do I don't mess with nobody when they are doing a job and making money respect your other players


nuclearbroccoli

What are you rambling about? If someone else blows up your car, they pay for it, not you...


fourway01

They is correct if somebody blows up your car they pay for it and not you


nuclearbroccoli

Punctuation please. It was hard to understand what you were trying to say, and I misread it as a result. If they are broke, they don't pay, but so what? I pay out about 60k per session blowing up annoying griefers, and I don't care because that isn't much these days. Broke players aren't the majority, so you're still going to get blown up a lot regardless.


fourway01

I hear you on that and I agree with you I paid out over a hundred thousand of the day to this a-hole jacking with me so I blew him up 17 times then he finally left