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Noire, the Midnight Club series and The Warriors, Rockstar Games has helped propel interactive entertainment into the center of modern culture. Through a string of critically acclaimed games including the Grand Theft Auto series, Red Dead Redemption and Red Dead Redemption 2, the Max Payne series, Bully, L.A. Rockstar Games cemented their reputation as creators of complex living worlds with the Grand Theft Auto series, one of the most successful entertainment properties of all time with over 270 million units sold-in worldwide. “Not only do we have the opportunity to work on some of the most successful entertainment properties in the world, but Rockstar’s investment in our studio is a great sign for the continued expansion of game development here in Scotland.” In fact, maybe the stock market in Grand Theft Auto V is the most realistic thing in the game.“We are incredibly excited to be joining the Rockstar team,” said Billy Thompson, Co-Founder of Ruffian. And so what if you’re at an informational disadvantage when trading stocks? That’s the way it is in real life, too. (Personally, I’d love a commodities exchange to make bullish bets on all of the metal involved in manufacturing guns.)īut for basic stock trading, the LCN works fine. And there are no ways to invest in more sophisticated products like exchange-traded funds or options.
Most of the stocks move in seemingly random ways. You can’t get analyst coverage or research reports to tell you more about any of the companies listed on the exchange, so you’re basically blind-guessing. You’re not allowed to short-sell stocks, meaning that there’s no way to bet against companies whose stock you think is primed to fall (such as one whose CEO you’re about to kill). For one, it’s too simple - you can only buy and sell single stocks. Now, there are a few annoying things about GTA V’s stock market. (My investment thesis was that, as a growing metropolis, Los Santos will have lots of new homeowners, especially if I keep killing off the old ones.) I bought 1,000 shares, spending roughly a third of my cash. I settled on Krapea, a “post-modern Swedish flat-pack furniture company” that was trading for $54.70 a share. I decided I needed to be more aggressive and place a big, concentrated bet. Sadly, they hadn’t moved much, and the ones that had moved were in the red. And since there’s no SEC policing stock trading in Los Santos, you’re not going to be busted for insider trading.Ī few hours after buying my initial stocks, I checked my portfolio page to see how they’d done. You could, theoretically, buy the stock of that company’s competitors and profit when they rise after the killing. Some missions, for example, require that you kill the CEO of a company. Throughout the game, you’re given opportunities to manipulate the markets. In GTA V, you can trade on the up-and-up, or - like most things in the game - you can break the rules. (There’s another exchange in GTA V, called BAWSAQ, which will reportedly allow online trading with other GTA players, but it’s been “under maintenance” since I got the game.)
There’s a list of companies on the Markets page that shows the individual stocks you can buy, each with a cheeky description of what the company does, its historical highs and lows, and its performance over the last week. Open up the page, and you see the home screen, which shows overall market movement and the stocks with the biggest moves. GTA V’s stock-trading platform is called the “Liberty City National Exchange Index,” and you can access it either from an in-game computer or from a character’s cell phone, which is on them at all times. It’s one of the tons of mini-games within the game that has nothing to do with the main story line, but I’m already completely addicted.
Namely, the stock-trading platform, which allows you to buy and sell stocks inside the game using virtual money to invest in made-up companies. I’m only 14 percent of the way through the game, but I’ve already found a feature that is way more fun than playing the actual missions. If you’re one of the estimated 15 million people who bought Grand Theft Auto V and have been playing it since it came out last week, you’ve probably spent a lot of time killing gang members, plotting jewelry-store heists, and rendezvousing at strip clubs.
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