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Tuesday, November 12, 2024

Gaming: Grand Theft Auto (GTA) Character Earnings

As a gaming enthusiast, I’ve always found video games a great way to relax and pass the time. I’ve been fascinated by all kinds of online games since my teen years, but simulation games stood out to me because they mirror real-life experiences. Now, as a parent, I watch my kids enjoying even more advanced games and often wonder about the effort that goes into creating these experiences and why our fascination with them keeps growing year after year.

Additionally, I was curious about the actual value of the gaming industry today and if those real personalities behind the characters, equally benefitted from the success of interactive games. One of the most iconic games, Grand Theft Auto (or “GTA” as most call it), was a favorite of mine. With all the new characters and advancements introduced over the past 20 years, I decided to dig deeper into the history and evolution of this billion-dollar game and the industry as a whole.

In the Grand Theft Auto (GTA) series, players control various main characters, each involved in a variety of criminal activities, including heists, drug deals, and organized crime. If we try to estimate their lifetime earnings based on their in-game activities and storylines, we can get some rough numbers.

Let's break down the main characters of the most popular GTA games:

1. GTA III (Claude)

• Earnings Estimate: Around $1 million to $2 million.

Reasoning: Claude engages in various missions involving robbery, drug deals, and assassination. The rewards from the main storyline suggest a modest figure by GTA standards, especially given the smaller economy of early games.

2. GTA: Vice City (Tommy Vercetti)

• Earnings Estimate: Around $50 million to $100 million

Reasoning: Tommy takes over Vice City by the end of the game, running businesses like the Malibu Club, Print Works, and the drug trade. With these assets, his empire’s total value is substantial, especially for the 1980s setting.

3. GTA: San Andreas (CJ - Carl Johnson)

• Earnings Estimate: Around $100 million to $200 million

Reasoning: CJ builds a massive criminal empire, owning various businesses, including the Four Dragons Casino and several properties. His wealth is diversified across legitimate businesses, real estate, and illegal activities.

4. GTA IV (Niko Bellic)

• Earnings Estimate: Around $10 million to $20 million.

Reasoning: Niko’s journey is centered around vengeance rather than wealth, but he still participates in high-paying missions like the “Three Leaf Clover” bank heist. However, his earnings are relatively modest compared to the scale of GTA V.

5. GTA V (Michael, Franklin, and Trevor)

• Earnings Estimate (Combined): Around $1 billion.

• Michael: Likely earned around $300 million to $400 million, given his experience and retirement savings boosted by the final heist.

• Franklin: Estimated to earn $200 million to $300 million, given his rise from a street hustler to a major player.

• Trevor: Possibly made around $100 million to $200 million, with income from his various illegal operations and his share of heists.

Reasoning: In GTA V, the three main characters participate in several high-value heists, including “The Big Score,” which alone nets them around $200 million to $400 million split between the three. Additionally, they own various profitable businesses.

6. GTA Online (Custom Protagonist)

• Earnings Estimate: Virtually unlimited.

Reasoning: Due to the ongoing updates, events, and heists, a GTA Online player character can theoretically earn billions of in-game dollars, making them the wealthiest main characters in the GTA universe if played long enough

Note this:

• The earnings are speculative and based on the storyline, in-game rewards, and assets accumulated.

• GTA V has the most lucrative payouts due to the high-stakes heists and the scale of the in-game economy.

• GTA Online earnings vary greatly due to the player-driven nature of the game.

Wow! These characters have become real-life legends and amassed great wealth, both in the game and in their careers voiceovers and simulation regardless of whether you’re a fan of interactive games or not.

In fact, some of these characters claim they were simply portraying their real lives, making it an easy job for them.

Friday, November 8, 2019

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Tuesday, October 15, 2019

What's New with Fortnite 'Chapter 2'

Drop into a New World 🌎

Fortnite Chapter 2 is available now.

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— Fortnite (@FortniteGame) October 15, 2019

‘Fortnite’ Patch Notes: 11 Of The Biggest Changes In ‘Chapter 2’

Fortnite Chapter 2 is here. It’s been a long road getting here, including 30+ hours of staring at a black hole, but the game is now back online with massive changes. We've gotten accustomed to big drops of new content every ten weeks or so in this game, but nothing has ever been quite on this scale before: there’s a new map, new default skins, new items and...a ton of other stuff. We’re still sifting through exactly what’s different, because this one doesn’t seem to have dropped with any patch notes, unlike every other patch in this game’s history. Epic appears to want us to discover this stuff ourselves, which is exactly what we’re going to do.

So without official patch notes, we’ll make our own. While we’ll be figuring out stuff for the rest of the day at least, let’s take a look at the biggest changes that we can see here at the beginning of the season.

New Map: This one is sort of hard to miss. But after 10 seasons we said goodbye to the old map in dramatic fashion, and now we’re setting out to explore the new one. The in-game mini-map is grayed out when you first drop in, and you have to do it gradually.

Water: Water is a big focus of this map, and we’ve got some nice improvements to go along with that. We’ve now got boats and the ability to swim and even dive a tiny amount. There are also some nice water effects and physics, though you won’t see those at lower graphics settings.

New Default Skins: You see this one the second you open up a match: we’ve got new default skins, saying goodbye to the ones that we’ve played with for over a year. Don’t worry: the characters remain, but they’re wearing different clothes.

Better Graphics: I’m fairly certain I noticed some lighting improvements in there along with the better water effects. There definitely seems to be a bump up at the highest level, but I’ll be curious if Digital Foundry or some other tech experts take a look at things.

UI Changes: Nothing major here, and everything should still be pretty navigable if you’ve played before. But we’ve got tweaks to the basic UI, including a progress bar at the bottom of the screen and skin icons next to players.

New Weapons, but less weapons: The game is promising a streamlined arsenal for the beginning of Chapter 2, which is a relief: the Junk Rifts and Batarangs were getting a little bit exhausting. There are a few new basic weapons, too, but they all fall into fairly recognizable categories.

Support Skills/Items: We got a lot more options for medic-style players at the end of last season, but these additions are even bigger than those. We now have both the ability to carry your downed teammates to safety and a new “bandage bazooka” that allows you to heal your teammates at a distance.

New Progression Systems: Progression has always been a shifting beast in this game, between season level and battle pass level, but Chapter 2 brings with it major changes. You now earn experience for all sorts of things besides killing people, like harvesting materials or opening chests. There are also medals tied to specific actions that you can use to fill out a “punchcard”.

Hiding: Fortnite has never really been about hiding, despite the fact that I always spend a lot of time hiding. Players like me now have options that extend beyond squatting in a bush, including the ability to hide in environmental haystacks and dumpsters.

Upgrade Your Weapons: This should take some of the RNG out of things. You can now upgrade your weapons using materials, giving players different avenues towards building the perfect endgame loadout.

Fishing: You can fish for weapons, now!

We’ll leave it at that for now as we look for more changes. There should be a ton of stuff coming in soon, so and it will take a bit of time to sort through it all.

Dave ThierSenior Contributor

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I write about video games and technology.

Sunday, October 13, 2019

🎮 Is Fortnite Over? Finito? Done? Here's What Happened...

Millions of Fortnite fanatics all over the world are in awe!
Season 10 is over and no one has a clue of what's going to happen next. Well no one except the creative genius' up at the Epic Games headquarters.

I spoke with a 12 year old gamer, who was in the middle of playing Fortnite on Sunday 13th, and he described his experienced:

"Well around 2 p.m. I was playing Fortnite with (4) four of my friends the all of sudden there was a rocket launch, it exploded in the sky, then disappeared. Then, I seen plenty rifts with spaceships shooting across the map into each other. It made one big rift then appeared in front of the meteor. The meteor was stuck over Dusty Depot all season but then started falling towards "Loot Lake". When asked what was "Loot Lake"? he explained that is was a location on the Fornite map.

"The meteor dropped into the orb, in the middle of "Loot Lake", then there was a big explosion, all my friends and I flew towards "Moisty Palms". Then everything was sucked back towards "Loot Lake" then everything disappeared.

After that the Black hole appeared. I waited for 30 minutes with my friends but nothing happened, so I finally took that shower, I was trying to take all day".

Social media is in a frenzy as Fortnite posted updates on Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Twitch and Youtube with the same "black hole" and some really creepy music can be heard playing.

Could this be the end of Fortnite? or an awesome marketing strategy gearing up for Season 11 or Chapter 2.

Over 20,000 people on Twitter alone are tuned staring into the black hole, expressing their feelings and theories of what they think happened. Screaming and crying emojis can be seen in the Twitch chat room as they all watch and wait for something... anything!