GTA V Online: Finance & Felony - 10 Things You Need To Know

4. The VIP System From 'Executives And Other Criminals' Is Getting An Upgrade

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When it dropped in December of last year, Executives and Other Criminals was heralded as being one of the biggest and most expansive updates to GTA Online yet, bringing new missions, weapons, clothing and vehicles, as well as altering the fundamental pillars of the multiplayer's open world. It promised players the ability to create their own 'Organisation', and as the criminals and seedy financiers of Rockstar's criminal underworld have amassed huge sums of money, the next logical step would seem to be to go mainstream; albeit in an ambiguous sense.

In order to become a V.I.P and embark upon money making schemes with an Organisation, players first had to have $1 million dollars in their Maze Bank accounts. You needn't need as much to be employed as a bodyguard (we'll get to that in a second), but in order to take advantage of the bare-knuckles neo-liberal market of Grand Theft Auto, you already had to be reasonably well-off. The same principles are likely to apply in Finance and Felony, though we really don't know if you'll be forced to reach another economic milestone in order to make the leap to C.E.O.

Bodyguard protection details return this time around too, as was made clear by the image of players sporting 'SecuroServ' caps and shirts in the trailer. Once again it would appear that executives can only hire a maximum of three bodyguards, but - if you happen to have a more expansive set of contacts - the potential for organisations to cooperate could make for some interesting criminal diplomacy.

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