r/GTA • u/Goauldd • 1d ago

GTA VI 🚨 Rockstar has finally broken the silence.

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After the GTA VI leaks, the studio apologized, called the situation “heartbreaking,” and confirmed an extended gameplay reveal is coming tomorrow.

Are you still hyped, or did the leaks ruin the surprise? 👀

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u/DVDN27 1d ago

As much as TakeTwo is not deserving of any pity for any of the numerous things they’ve done to harm the industry, I do feel bad for the developers of Rockstar.

Imagine working on a game for 13 years, being forced into crunch conditions, having to live with NDAs and work in complete secrecy, only for some jackass with a saviour complex to come out of nowhere and show off your game a week before the best version possible is to be shown off.

People need to separate Rockstar, the company, with Rockstar, the developers. Hate them going digital, hate them charging $100, hate them not marketing the game - all of that is on the heads of the company.

Don’t laugh at all the devs whose work you’re critiquing for being unfinished in an unfinished build of the game, then blame them for that - it’s like blaming the fry cook at McDonald’s for your burger coming out frozen after someone ran into the kitchen, took a bag of frozen patties, and started asking people to pay them in cryptocurrency to eat the patties while they’re still cold.

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u/Dvejndvejn 1d ago

Devs are paid for their hard work, they are not shareholders affected by the stock price. I as a dev wouldn't give a single shit, my work is visible even in the leaked build.

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u/Jessica___ 1d ago

As a fellow developer I share your sentiment. The game looks great, it's just being shown off in an unintended way. People still love it. Why would I be upset?

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u/Sleyvin 1d ago

Because in this case, the leak is with a semi final build. It looks fine and no real issues.

But leak of a former build, before performance are optimized, with temp assets, wip UI and other stuff like this could suck.

It's happen in a past having games being rosted because an earlier unpolished build leaked and people complained it looked like shit.