In 2020, Rockstar Games held a “Heist Challenge” in Grand Theft Auto Online, giving the entire community free rewards if players could collectively steal GTA$100 billion from Heist Finals in one week. They delivered in spades and brought home an astounding $1 trillion by the time the event was over. So for 2022, Rockstar is stepping things up a bit.
“This year, in order to give The Heists Event a proper cap, we are calling out throughout Los Santos and Blaine County for all thieves, mates, hackers and Heist tactics to redouble previous efforts,” Rockstar announced (opens in new tab). “Put your criminal instincts to the test and score high in the all-new Heists Challenge. Break together with the community this week and earn a cumulative grand total of GTA$2 TRILLION to unlock a special reward later this year.”
What’s the reward? Steal the money and find out, I guess.
Heist Finals are the pinnacle of heists in GTA Online, which are essentially multi-stage events where individual players set up a crime, assemble a crew, and then get the job done. Specific details vary by heist (there are quite a few), but generally they are complex operations requiring coordination between players – think Ocean’s Eleven or Inside Man, but in video game format. This GTA Online challenge specifies Heist Finals because that’s where the actual score is made.
$2 trillion is a ridiculous amount of in-game money, even by GTA Online’s riotous standards, and I’d declare it an impossible goal by default if players hadn’t accidentally gotten halfway there. They will obviously have to work harder for the reward this time around, but I have a feeling they will pull it off. The Pacific Standard Job is also offering double $ GTA and RP this week, so that might be a good place to start.
GTA Online’s 2022 Heists Event will run until November 30. For other ideas of good jobs with big payouts, check out our ranking of the robberies of GTA Online (opens in new tab)– a few more have been added since then, but it’s a really handy resource if you’re new to town.