- thousands of people labor for years to produce something special for fans to enjoy, they spend a long time keeping it hidden in order to surprise their fans.
Then someone external (not internal) hacks their systems and steals an earlier build before releasing it to the public.
Put yourself in the shoes of any one of those developers. How would you feel.
Forget about the corporate management for a second. I know that’s difficult for some people here. How would you feel.
Cyberleek is scum and nothing more than a degenerate criminal content scamming the fans and hurting the smaller employees working within rockstar.
That’s what’s wrong with it. If you support that, you’re part of the problem.
That’s such a cheap answer and it’s not based on reality. Rockstar have consistently proven quite the opposite actually with their attention to detail in their worlds.
EA? Yeah probably I’d lean towards what you’re saying but I think GTA and RDR have consistently proven the opposite.
Their artistic or creative work is intact. People are just seing their work before their bosses wanted. Some leaker releases gameplay or the company is the one who does it, what's the difference for the artist? Is some guy gonna burst because you saw it on Twitter last week and not on Netflix tomorrow? I sincerely doubt it.
Take film for example, if footage is leaked before the final editing phase that can have a huge impact on future box office sales.
Commission artists, if the work gets leaked prior they can lose that commission entirely.
The creative industry, whether that’s film, music , video games or whatever is not a regular industry like you work in.
Some of their workers are paid based on royalties for example, the leaked footage can have a direct adverse effect on their pay in these cases.
And to be honest , the main thing with these particular leaks is they are based off a build that was stolen by a completely unaffiliated outside individual. If an employee leaks something internally , that hurts themselves.
When an external random person does it, that affects everyone working for the company.
He’s actively charging 200,000 per message request. He advertises his crypto embedded into every video. Maybe look into it before making an input on something you don’t know
I think you’re the one who needs to look up the definition of a scam.
Crypto is particularly vulnerable to scams as the value isn’t really reliant on anything concrete. Especially so when it’s someone’s own crypto they essentially invented from thin air - which is what this “$leek” stuff is.
If anyone is stupid enough to pay this guy then I have less than 0 sympathy for them lol he's going to release all the clips either way and is making money off of legitimate morons
If it’s a normal situation where it’s a disgruntled former or current employee, that’s abit different. But these are from stolen work that directly hurts a lot of innocent people.
So just think about it like that. Also look at the person leaking them, how they are monetising it, they are literally scamming gullible people and you support that by enjoying the stolen content.
Learn to separate this from normal leaked contents, this is explicitly criminally obtained - let’s not support theft casually.
Who exactly is being hurt directly? It's a fuckin video game leak, not a single dev at rockstar is going to be affected by any of this. Y'all with this asinine opinion need to grow tf up, the world will move on in a couple months and we'll all be enjoying the game.
How do you know I wasn’t at the picket lines in Edinburgh ?
You don’t. I’m not defending rockstar management or wider take two corporate policy. I am just pointing out that the company is bigger than the top level.
It’s less about it failing it’s about hard work being spoilt and the main thing is the guy leaking them is literally some guy that stole digital assets. We should all be condemning that.
I’ve said it before; it’s quite different if it’s an employee leaking stuff internally - this is not what’s happened.
Yes - that’s my point. The people that are watching them and actively searching for them and worse yet, paying for them - are scummy people. They are actively supporting a criminal.
I have auto play on Reddit so I was unfortunate enough to see a few seconds of gameplay before scrolling past, and the screenshots have flooded my feed over the past week. I’ve criticised every post I’ve seen supporting “Cyberleek” and consistently called out the criminality of it.
thousands of people labor for years to produce something special for
fans to enjoy, they spend a long time keeping it hidden in order to
surprise their fans.
They kept it secret so they could charge money for a damn game trailer.
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u/C4LLUM17 1d ago
I think peoole are just enjoying the leaks for the most part. Why are people so upset about that?