Ever since its launch last month, Grand Theft Auto V has been immensely popular in the video game realm. However, its online counterpart, Grand Theft Auto Online, managed to run into a number of server and operational problems when it went live.

Rockstar Games is hard at work on repairing these issues.  In the meantime, to reward the players who have been experiencing these problems, it’s preparing a little Stimulus Package. Set to release sometime over the next few weeks – starting this week – this bonus will add $500,000 to player accounts, allowing them to spend it however they please on weapons and other in-game items.

There are certain conditions to receiving these rewards, and they are as follows.

You must play or have played Grand Theft Auto Online at any time during the month of October 2013 in order to qualify for the GTA $500,000 deposit in your in-game bank account.

Players will first have to install a forthcoming GTAV title update which we expect to happen next week. That title update (1.04) is expected to fix the remaining instances of issues that have caused vehicle purchase loss and will also enable the functionality through which we’ll be providing this GTA $ stimulus cash to players.

We will announce at the Rockstar Newswire when each deposit is made.

Each of the two GTA $250,000 deposits will be made by Rockstar and should automatically appear in the in-game GTA Online bank accounts of eligible players. Beyond downloading the forthcoming title update mentioned above, there should not be any additional special action required by eligible players to redeem.

Source: Rockstar Newswire