Arcade Complete Guide
(Uses, Income, Best Location and How To Buy)
GTA Online

An Arcade is one of the properties in GTA Online that can be managed as a business to make income and is used as a base to prepare for the Diamond Casino heist.
It can be managed as VIP, CEO or MC President.

In this guide, we will explain what are its uses, what is the best location for it, how to buy one and how to make money through it.
There will also be answers to questions related to this property at the end of the guide.

If you are new to businesses, read our General Guide on Businesses before proceeding with this guide.

Arcade Uses and Income

Once you buy an Arcade, you will be able to:
• Use it as a base to prepare for the Diamond Casino heist;
• Run it as a legitimate business;
• Use it to manage all of your other businesses in one place.

1- Diamond Casino Heist:

To start this business, access the computer in the Arcade and "Start" the "Collect Equipment" task:

Once you bring the equipments to the Arcade, you can start preparing for the Diamond Casino heist by interacting with the board in the Arcade Basement.

Completing the Diamond Casino heist will get you around 1 million dollars.

2- Arcade Legitimate Business:

After scoping out the Diamond Casino, you will start getting daily income from your Arcade depending on how many arcade machines you have placed;

You can buy Arcade games using a laptop in you Arcade;

One Arcade machine placed will generate at least $200 daily;
The maximum daily income you can get is $5,000.

The money from daily income is added to the safe near your desk in the arcade;
Safe capacity is $100,000, when it's maxed out, you won't get any daily income until you empty it.

Street Crimes: Gang Wars Edition is a game that you already own and it comes in a set of 4 machines (makes around $850 daily) and can be placed 4 times in your arcade (making you around $3,400 daily);
One set of this game is placed after you scope out the casino and you can add 3 other sets to maximize your income right away.

How to Place an Arcade Machine

The easiest and fastest way to place Arcade Machines is by using the Interaction Menu while inside the Arcade, here is how:

Open the Interaction Menu (M on Keyboard) and click on "Arcade Management"

Click on "Arcade Games"

There are 35 slots around the Arcade where you can place the games you own on;
Put a game on a slot then press E and put another machine in the next slot;

Most games can be placed with no limit, others can only be placed once to 4 times, some of those take 2 slots and can only be put in specific places.

If you just want to get your daily $5,000 and you are not interested in customizing your Arcade, just place Street Crimes: Gang Wars Edition (Green) 4 times and buy Monkey's Paradise (Yellow) which is the cheapest game and put it on every available empty spot and your daily income is maxed out.

For more details on Arcade Games, their price, number of times they can be placed, how many spots they take, some tips...etc, check this Guide on Arcade Games.

3- Arcade Upgrades:

There are two upgrades you can purchase using a laptop in your Arcade:
The Master Control Panel and the Drone Station.

The Drone Station will make it possible to launch drones that can shoot electric charges and explode with 1 to 3 other players, you will also be able to use it outside through the Interaction Menu (M on Keyboard) in Freemode.
It is not worth buying.

The Master Control Panel on the other hand is very useful, by using it, you will be able to manage all your businesses in one place (buy supplies, sell stock, launch business related jobs...etc).

These are the businesses you can manage through the Arcade Master Control Terminal:

• Nightclub
• Bunker
• Cocaine Lockup
• Counterfeit Cash Factory
• Document Forgery Office
• Methamphetamine Lab
• Weed Farm
• Hangar
• Vehicle Warehouse
• Cargo Warehouse

Best Arcade Location

All Arcades have the same features, they're just located differently;

We are going to choose the best location based on:
• The distance between the Arcade and Diamond Casino heist preparation missions destination points;
• The distance between the Arcade and your other businesses;
• Accessibility

With all that in mind, our winner is the Videogeddon Arcade.

The Videogeddon Arcade checks all the needs, it is the closest in general to any Casino heist prep mission destination point and it is close to your other businesses if you are using the Master Control Panel to launch missions related to them.

We should also mention the 8-Bit Arcade since it comes in second place in terms of good location;

If you don't mind having a bit more of distance between the Arcade and Diamond Casino heist prep missions destination points to have easy access to both entrances of the Arcade (main entrance and garage entrance) then you should go with the 8-Bit Arcade as both its entrances are close to each other and easily accessible.

How to Buy an Arcade

First, go talk to Lester

Now, you can use the Foreclosures Maze-Bank website to buy an Arcade;

Using your phone, go to Internet

Click on the "Money and Services" tab

Click on Foreclosures Maze-Bank

Filter the results to only show Arcades then select the Arcade of your choice and click BUY

A menu where you can customize your Arcade will show up;

In Extras, Personal Quarters' purpose is to make it possible to spawn in your Arcade through the Interaction Menu when you enter a new session;
It also comes with a Gun Locker which is used to customize your Weapon Wheel by showing weapons and hiding others so you can access a specific weapon faster without scrolling too much to find it.

The High Score Screen will add monitors in your Arcade showing the high scores of games that you have put in the spots from 1 to 24 except these games:
• Street Crimes: Gang Wars Edition;
• Axe of Fury;
• The Love Professor;
• Shiny Wasabi Kitty Claw;
• Madam Nazar;
• CAMHEDZ.

A Garage adds space where you can park your vehicles, it is not necessary.

Everything else is just to customize the interior of your Arcade.

You can always renovate your Arcade after buying it by going on the Foreclosures Maze-Bank website and selecting your Arcade.

When you finish, Click BUY

Congratulations, now go to your Arcade and start planning for the Diamond Casino heist.

Questions and Answers

Is Buying an Arcade Worth It?

Yes, but it is not what you should focus on starting up.
The best way to make money as of now is by doing the Cayo Perico Heist where you will make more than 1 million per run but, you will need to buy the $2.2 million Submarine first.

The second best way to make money is to run the Cluckin' Bell Farm Raid with the help of Vincent; this will make you $500,000 per run. Go to "V" on the map to start preparing for the raid.

After getting enough money from that, buy an Arcade:
• to manage all of your other businesses in one place;
• to be able to prepare for the Diamond Casino heist;
• to get a daily income of $5,000 easily as explained above.

Public Session or Private Session

To avoid getting attacked by other players while doing an Arcade mission (heist prep mission), launch it in an Invite Only Session or a Closed Friend Session so you only deal with the AI.

Here is how to get in a Private Session:
Press "Escape" then click on "Online" >
"Find New Session" >
"Closed Friend Session" or "Invite Only Session".

Can I Change the Location of my Arcade?

Yes, just access the Foreclosures Maze-Bank website as shown above and purchase the one you want by trading the one you own (you won't need to pay full price for the new one);

Keep in mind that you will need to re-purchase some Arcade add-ons (Personal Quarters and Interior Decor).

But you will keep:
• purchased Garage and High-Score Screens;
• Arcade upgrades (Master Control Panel and Drone Station);
• purchased Arcade Games;
• Diamond Casino heist prep progress.

Can I Sell my Arcade?

No, there is no way to sell an Arcade once bought, you can only trade it for another one.

The End

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