How Easy Money Makes Grand Theft Auto V Boring

Try-hard gamer (and Daily Beast National Security
writer) Eli Lake dishes on how online play in Grand Theft
Auto V (GATV) became boring once he learned cheats that
allowed him to dominate the mean streets of Los Santos:

In real life, the sudden accumulation of wealth may lead one to
buy nice clothes, take a vacation, give to a charity or make sound
investments. But in the world of grand theft auto, I spent my
glitched cash on more lethal goods and services. I purchased a
tank. I purchased an attack helicopter. I purchased a sniper rifle.
Those were the goods. As for the services, I now had money to send
mercenaries and airstrikes against players I did not like. Yes, the
game has something called “Merryweather Security” because
“everybody needs a private army.”

It was payback time. I went after as many of my tormentors as I
could find. I no longer worried about dying either. With millions
in my in game account, why did it matter? It was exhilarating going
from hunted to hunter. Nor did I feel any guilt about cheating.
This is, after all, a game where you pretend to be a criminal.

But the joke it turns out was on me. Once the challenge was
removed, the game stopped being fun. After a while it gets boring
coming up with new ways to kill other players.