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The chief executive of Grand Theft Auto parent publisher Take-Two Interactive has spoken out on the subject of microtransactions, one of the industry's hot-button topics. Speaking this week during the 43rd Annual Technology, Media & Telecom Conference in New York, Strauss Zelnick said players should never feel as if they're being robbed.

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SchollA from Console ControllUs-where the console controls us writes: Grand Theft Auto Online, for gamers, like in real life yields aspirations of what they would do with the money once becoming a millionaire/billionaire, like buying property or cars. But ever wonder what happens when those things materialize and then you go broke? I just recently played with someone on my friends list who actually went from billions of dollars to dead broke. And when I say dead broke I dont mean he had little money, 10 thousand or even a thousand to play with, nope! he had zip, zero, zilch! Thats the first time I ever ran into someone playing GTA online (and I play a lot) with such a dilemma. In any case he precedes to tell me what he couldnt do because he had no money. Some were obvious like not being able to buy ammo, not being able to put a bounty on someone, pay for a car he destroyed, or even calling a mechanic to get his own car but then there were two things he said he couldn...