Do keep in mind that they're giving every Grand Theft Auto Online player virtual currency to the tune of $500,000 as a way of saying "sorry we screwed up the GTA Online launch." I would like to think you all knew what I meant but there are still those people out there that would like to believe they were getting $500K of real world currency from this. You aren't.
Money in the Bank
Given some of the recent technical issues during these first days of GTA Online, and now that things are starting to look much smoother (touch wood!), we are planning to provide a special stimulus package for all who have played or will play Grand Theft Auto Online this month. We will be dropping a cool half a million GTA$ in the GTA Online bank accounts of all players this month, starting as early as next week.

‘Don’t Spend It All in One Place!’
In order to keep the current worldwide in-game economy balanced, we will be providing this GTA$ to players via two deposits of $250,000. We will announce specific dates as soon as possible, but are currently hoping to be able to make the first deposit by the end of next week (after we’ve confirmed that issues causing game progress loss have been fixed) with the second installment to happen by the end of the month. For players who experienced cloud server errors, connection issues, and lost game progress and characters in these first days of GTA Online, we hope this GTA$ helps to facilitate a fresh start or makes your continued life in Los Santos and Blaine County extra sweet.

And suddenly my $400K in-game apartment isn't quite as sweet.

Here's how you will get your cash. If you have played GTA Online at any point this month, you qualify for the $500,000. You must also install the upcoming 1.04 title update for the game which is expected to be released next week. Once that all happens, you simply wait for Rockstar to add the funds to your character's in-game bank account. There will be two deposits of $250,000 each made at different times.