If you're having fun then obviously I'm happy for you. But that doesn't help me missing what the game used to be.
I just checked my Social Club profile and my character has lifetime earnings of $2.3bn. The current bank balance is $18.6m and my undeposited cash is $484k (gives you an idea of how freely money used to flow). Rank is 150 and total playtime is 20 days and 10 hours.
If your $2m balance is typical of your gameplay, how exactly can you afford the stuff in the game? The yacht, the hypercars, the cost of vehicle upgrades, the insanely expensive wacky vehicles they started to add shortly before I bailed out etc. balanced against (what were last I played) pretty meagre earnings from the club and office activities. I have a bunker and the vehicles for it but didn't really play any of the military stuff. By this stage I had already more or less abandoned the game and was only checking in now and again to buy the new content.
Granted, I've wasted plenty of money on vehicles and vehicle upgrades that weren't possible to keep due to garaging restraints at the time and on properties that were eventually abandoned, but even if we halve the amount of money I've spent, how does a current player earn over a billion dollars? Even the better paying club activities took forever to complete, severely impairing the earnings per hour. Almost all my money came from regular game activities before the businesses even existed and before earnings were nerfed heavily.
