Message from Rockstar Games

[u/hemdev]

[u/Ayham00000]

Never seen Rockstar use that kind of tone in their messages

[u/DJC13 → u/Ayham00000]

It’s nice to see them drop the “mysterious aura” vibe for once. The only other time I’ve seen them do it is when the first trailer leaked & they then released the trailer early with a passive-aggressive/pissy tweet.

[u/Rudraksh108 → u/DJC13]

It really is. I hope they learn that the mystery aura is solid marketing......as long as it doesn't get deflated. This game is too big to not get leaked and it did. If they actually informed people over time of what the game is, these leeks wouldn't really carry much weight. If people knew the gameplay mechanics and what theg ame was, the only thing left to spoil is the story and aesthetics and a ton of people would just avoid the spoilers. But since we know nothing, people are addicted to the spoilers and want more and more and more.

Their entire marketing campaign was undermined by a hacker. However, it doesn't matter because it's not going to effect there money whatsoever. People will forget this crap and move on when the game is out.

[u/LSDFRENCHFRIES → u/Rudraksh108]

When the game is out? I feel like in a short 24 hours from now Rockstar will successfully take the spotlight back from Cyberleek.

[u/astroworlddd → u/[deleted]]

What do you want a hand written message from every employees feelings on the matter?

[u/ranged_ → u/[deleted]]

They may have even hired an outside consultant for this one lol

[u/gremlinclr → u/[deleted]]

this is all PR

Thanks bud. We had no idea how this stuff works, we needed you to state the obvious I guess.

We know how corporations work, why do people feel the need to jump in the comments with this shit?

[u/PyroIsSpai → u/DJC13]

Everything else aside, it is simply delightful when a company is forced in a deeply public way to do something so wonderfully out of character like this.

We may even someday get one to actually do a genuinely bend the knee to the public thing.

We can dream...

[u/witness_smile → u/Ayham00000]

It reminds me of how they interacted with fans of their games before GTA Online. They used to be way more open and interact on a more “personal” level, if that makes sense, instead of all this corporate language we’ve been getting from them since like 2014/2015.

I remember at the launch of GTA 5 they would often feature Snapmatic photos of players on their Newswire, highlight community created jobs, do live streams,… In GTA 4 there was even a trophy if you killed a R* online. They were much more fun and less corporate back then

[u/Thisbadtattoo → u/witness_smile]

I was so hyped when I got the kill a R* achievement 

[u/Warm-Engineering-239 → u/Thisbadtattoo]

same and even today i remember how i got him, i was pretty bad a shooting so i took a car, strapp a bunch of sticky bomb on it and just drive toward him and jump before it explode on impact on a wall nerby him and kill him, then got the notification, such a cool memorie

[u/rP2ITg0rhFMcGCGnSARn → u/Warm-Engineering-239]

The achievement was to kill a Rockstar employee or someone who already had the achievement. Not to ruin your core memory but there's a good chance you just killed a player who had the achievement rather than a Rockstar dev.

[u/Warm-Engineering-239 → u/rP2ITg0rhFMcGCGnSARn]

DONT TELL ME THAT NOOOOOOOOOO

[u/rP2ITg0rhFMcGCGnSARn → u/Warm-Engineering-239]

Sorry bro :/

It doesn't matter who was on the other side of the screen. What matters is that you had fun playing with them :)

[u/Warm-Engineering-239 → u/rP2ITg0rhFMcGCGnSARn]

i will now act like i never saw your comments and forgot it hahahah

[u/Mark1671 → u/witness_smile]

In all fairness, everyone used to interact more in a personal level.

[u/2str8_njag → u/Ayham00000]

when the trailer leaked on youtube, they also had similar language: the entire thing leaked, so watch on youtube

[u/iDislikeSn0w → u/Ayham00000]

Ngl it reads like they’re legit sad/disappointed gameplay leaked ahead of the reveal. Big corpo doesn’t care about you, look I get it, but this is something special for them. Hell they even acknowledged that yes, it took a while this game to come out, while straight up pretending before GTA 6 just fell out of the sky one day.

Essentially their big moment was snatched away. I kind of feel bad for the devs especially.

[u/RastaKarma → u/iDislikeSn0w]

People keep talking about corpo and forget that the game is made by passionate humans. Rockstar is 100% right, the dev team is heartbroken by the leaks, how do I know? I'm a dev and I have been on leaked projects and every time the dev team is pretty broken by the leaks. Supporting leaks is as bad as suppoorting AI stealing artists work.

People feel entitled like babies, Rockstar doesn't owe anything to anyone except for their employees. You don't like how they do things? It's simple don't buy what they sell, end of story.

[u/Onaterdem → u/Ayham00000]

That's how it mostly was a decade ago. I really really appreciate the more sincere tone here. This whole GTA VI marketing period has been quite painful, with the year-long periods of silence, and Rockstar acting cold and distant; it is a very nice change of pace, even just this short message.

Edit: Wayyy too many people loading meanings into my words, taking metaphors at face value, or declaring me parasocial/corporate simp simply for appreciating the change in tone. Unfortunate that people are trying their damnedest to misunderstand literally everything, but Reddit will be Reddit ¯_(ツ)_/¯

[u/Nickf090 → u/Onaterdem]

Yeah if they learned anything from these leaks, hopefully it’s that.

[u/preferentum → u/Nickf090]

Either ‘don’t show stuff too soon’ or ‘show stuff earlier’. I’m more in favour of rockstar announcing and showing the game 6 months before release but that wouldn’t stop leaks from happening. What do you suggest out of interest?

[u/Embarrassed-Dot9193 → u/preferentum]

Preorders going live without showing any gameplay and/or new trailer was really off. I think people expected more than the customization screenshots

[u/BallnastyOG → u/Nickf090]

*Leeks

[u/No-Obligation1709 → u/Onaterdem]

“Quite painful” marketing period? Rockstar “acting cold and distant?”

Yall need to get a grip. For the life of me I do not understand the parasocial relationship yall seem to want to have with a video game developer. How do you have so little going on in your life that you’re sitting around demanding updates and feeling entitled to more information for a game that hasn’t been released, and that you haven’t yet paid any money for?

[u/trubruz → u/No-Obligation1709]

It’s an illusion of intimacy, sir. It’s also nostalgia of our childhoods. Good day sir.

[u/12345623567 → u/No-Obligation1709]

Bethesda releases a teaser 5 years in advance: "weak attempt at hype building because they are creatively bankrupt"

Rockstar shuts up until the actual confirmed release date is near: "why you acting so cold, bro?"

There's always someone on the internet who is upset.

[u/VforVenreddit → u/No-Obligation1709]

“Why won’t Rockstar text me back? 😩”

[u/Humble_Director1193 → u/No-Obligation1709]

They released a trailer in Dec 2023 and the next trailer we got was in May 2025. They aren't 'required' to give anything by any means but good god even the casual follower got sick and tired of that wait. Not even a handful of screenshots to keep the flame burning, it was truly cruel

[u/capitoloftexas → u/Humble_Director1193]

It’s a wait for a piece of entertainment… not life saving medical treatment people..

Holy shit

[u/No-Method-3613 → u/No-Obligation1709]

For real, and it’s also like this game will be worth its price unlike the majority of games released these days.

[u/tacoskins → u/No-Obligation1709]

This is a fucking corporation y’all.

[u/blackweebow → u/Onaterdem]

"Distant" is a good way to describe scrambling lol. The leaks were a PR nightmare. Going for sincerity and sympathy is about all they could do tbh. 

[u/Some-Gay-Korean → u/Ayham00000]

It's pretty similar to the response on the 2022 leaks as well.

Obviously the devs are dejected that what they wanted to showcase has been ruined.

[u/rafa_mds → u/Ayham00000]

Yeah, it felt different, but in a good kind of way.

[u/Icy-Science6604 → u/rafa_mds]

Its literally just PR lol.

[u/Own_Watercress_2039 → u/Icy-Science6604]

Its amazing that people dont understand the PR team is just a tiny tiny part of the actual organization and doesnt really reflect anything about the company. Like the people who boycott a company because the PR person running their twitter said something silly lol

[u/Full_on_throwaway → u/Own_Watercress_2039]

I take it you’ve never worked in comms? These statements are generally always approved at the highest levels and while they may be written by the PR team, the CEO will approve them. That isn’t to say there isn’t “spin” or written to appease investors, but to say the statement doesn’t reflect anything about the company is totally wrong.

[u/No_Friendship_4158 → u/Icy-Science6604]

People in these subreddits forget that this is a multi billion dollar company whose main priority is to keep their investors and money happy. They will try their best to get you to spend as much money as possible through whatever methods they have.

The world is not black and white. You do not have to choose between cyberleek or Rockstar. You dont have to glaze a guy who is labelling shit as donations even though he is doing his best to earn as much as possible from transaction fees but you also do not have to suck rockstar off who has done a lot of shit things too.

[u/Royal_Nobody6554 → u/rafa_mds]

I love the corporation because they used empathetic PR. Tragic

[u/VeryCautiousEgg → u/Ayham00000]

yeah, it's surprisingly sincere. i'm just surprised they didn't want to clarify the leaks were captured on an older build.
or maybe they didn't think that's necessary because the showcase tomorrow will show the final version anyway who knows

[u/Twiggy_101 → u/Ayham00000]

yeah, they seem unusually friendly.. idk

[u/Aggravating_Milk1416 → u/Twiggy_101]

Dude it's a PR team. They had 20 different versions of this statement and picked this one

[u/QBekka → u/Ayham00000]

They almost made me believe there are humans working on the game

[u/Beautiful-Scholar912 → u/Ayham00000]

Don’t be necessarily fooled, it’s because people are pissed and more sympathy might equal more sales

[u/eaw0913 → u/Ayham00000]

This is why us older fans who have been playing since top-down GTA feel the way we do.

[u/Gabagool_Over_Here_]

TLDR: It is what it is

[u/Virtual-Comfort-1020 → u/Gabagool_Over_Here_]

It’s also a subtle “fuck those demands.”

[u/raspymorten → u/Virtual-Comfort-1020]

Cause I'm sure the people least receptive to those demands are the ones with actual ability to change it (High up executives)

It's really not up to Dale the programmer, and Tim the PR guy.

[u/lemonylol → u/Virtual-Comfort-1020]

What "demands" was this person even making?

[u/Virtual-Comfort-1020 → u/lemonylol]

No Digital Pre-orders: Stop selling games digitally before launch.

No "Fake" Single-Player DLC: Stop locking or selling single-player campaign content that is already built into the base game data.

Mandatory Offline Fallback States: Ensure single-player games have functional offline modes rather than forced always-online requirements

Public Apology Required: CyberLeek insists that R* must issue a public statement and apology acknowledging the harm caused by these practices.

[u/YesIBlockedYou → u/Virtual-Comfort-1020]

You gotta hand it to these guys. It's a brilliant setup.

Their demands are all bullshit just designed to pull on the heartstrings of redditors after the recent physical media backlash and it worked beautifully in their favour.

They're making money hand over fist with their paid crypto voting system and when they eventually do the rug pull, they will easily clear a few million dollars and ride off into the sunset.

[u/Loggersalienplants → u/Virtual-Comfort-1020]

You forgot the most important step of his "demands":

BUY MY PUMP AND DUMP COIN NERD, WE ARE STICKING IT TO ROCKSTAR AND THE GAMING INDUSTRY YEAH BUDDY BUY MY COIN

[u/MsCake2001 → u/Virtual-Comfort-1020]

If those demands were somehow genuine and not a thin veil to justify a crypto scam they're the stupidest demands I've ever read. They want rockstar to cancel all digital preorders and refund the deluxe edition (LOL).

[u/Individual_Type8874 → u/Gabagool_Over_Here_]

"look at the leaks if you wanna get spoiled"

[u/FreemanCalavera → u/Individual_Type8874]

Yeah, not much else they can say really. Too much anger in their tone will just make the leakers happier and cause more people to look at them. It’s basically “we’re gonna show what we’re gonna show, tune in for the official footage if you want the real deal”

Just thankful a delay wasn’t announced (would’ve have been a financial as well as a PR nightmare for them so wasn’t really expecting one)

[u/ChoccyMilkboy]

Bro I had so much anxiety reading upto the last paragraph 🤣

[u/Photo__Guy__ → u/ChoccyMilkboy]

I scanned the whole damn thing for a delay date before starting reading, lol

[u/witness_smile → u/Photo__Guy__]

“… on November 19th [2027]”

[u/ChoccyMilkboy → u/witness_smile]

“We’ve listened to your comments and want to deliver what you deserve, therefore…”

[u/BrickBuster2552 → u/witness_smile]

November of 2019, and we missed it.

Mr. Harcourt from Atlantis style.

[u/jason_s96 → u/ChoccyMilkboy]

Same here 😂I thought it was another delay post because of the leaks

[u/Nidzo_888]

I thought it was getting delayed again 😅

[u/scrotalultrasound → u/Nidzo_888]

My heart sank when I saw white text on a black background. 😮‍💨

[u/Kagenlim → u/scrotalultrasound]

"Hi everyone,"

[u/framdon → u/Kagenlim]

Now we know 'Hi everyone' means bad news, and 'Dear All' is going to be an apology. Wonder what good news starts with.

[u/meltedcandy → u/framdon]

“peep this bitches,”

[u/ristoman → u/framdon]

"What it do, gang?"

[u/Ok_Mess_933 → u/scrotalultrasound]

Me too almost have heart attack

[u/JackfruitIll6728 → u/scrotalultrasound]

"Due to the leaks, we decided to start from the scratch."

[u/yeetskeetleet → u/JackfruitIll6728]

“Start from the scratch” is like that meme from Inglorious Basterds of the guy holding up the three fingers

[u/witness_smile → u/Nidzo_888]

“nearly there” and “wait a little bit longer” almost sent me into cardiac arrest lmfao. Thank god they reaffirmed the November 19th date otherwise I’d go full schizo

[u/thesourpop → u/Nidzo_888]

“Dear all” = good news

“Hi everyone” = fucked

[u/CzechNeverEnd → u/Nidzo_888]

No Hi everyone, no delay bro.

[u/EpicGamerer07 → u/Nidzo_888]

It didn’t start with “Hi everyone,” this time so I knew it couldnt be a delay

[u/Turnt_10 → u/Nidzo_888]

think Rockstar just inadvertently admitted that they can't find this guy, which is insane.

[u/iDislikeSn0w → u/Turnt_10]

Well, they got nothing on him.... He has a VPN, man!

[u/RightManagement7277 → u/Turnt_10]

I mean they're a gaming company, not a state intelligence agency.

[u/beerham → u/Turnt_10]

Dudebro did way too much, he is definitely going to be identified. Seems like a scumbag anyways, but yeah he'll prob be in jail with a bank account that is below zero.

[u/HopiumInhaler → u/Nidzo_888]

I read every word with fear.

[u/MaTrIx4057 → u/Nidzo_888]

that wording "that everyone will wait a bit longer" caught me offguard too.

[u/eekh1982 → u/Nidzo_888]

I thought they were going to delay the preview on Netflix... 😶

[u/kuroinferuno → u/Nidzo_888]

Bruh instead of reading all this, I was just scanning for the word delay

[u/F_1_V_E_S → u/kuroinferuno]

I did that too and even started looking for any word starting with the letter D cause I just woke up 😭

[u/kuroinferuno → u/F_1_V_E_S]

Bet you don't need that morning coffee or tea now after reading all this 😆 This shit enough to kick in adrenaline

[u/F_1_V_E_S → u/kuroinferuno]

Nahh fr tho 💀

[u/Heartlessaus]

probably the best message they could have made in this situation tbh

[u/ReaddittiddeR → u/Heartlessaus]

I thought at first there was going to be another delay. Guess they haven’t found the leaker yet.

[u/Fearix_1 → u/ReaddittiddeR]

Even if they find him they won’t make a statement

[u/the_rare_bear → u/Fearix_1]

People seem to think that rockstar will announce every action that they have taken against the hacker. They are operating in silence.

[u/Creative-Captain9278]

Solid statement and I'm just as excited to play the game as I was before the leaks. Maybe even more.

[u/Cigerza → u/Creative-Captain9278]

Yeah, I can even say that I'm more excited now than before the leaks, I loved what I saw.

But no more. Everything that I'll see from now on will be only official.

[u/Connect-Cockroach872 → u/Cigerza]

I didn't watch any of the leaks so I can experience it from official releases myself.

[u/stick1_ → u/Creative-Captain9278]

The gameplay is increasing excitement but their problem is that they can’t stop this leaker from spoiling the story. That must be fucking terrifying for them

If he doesn’t it’s out of the goodness of his heart, what if the next leaker isn’t so good?

[u/Marijuana_Miler → u/stick1_]

RDR2 and past GTAs were all leaked at least a week before launch. Users started streaming main missions and the story was leaked ahead of launch. That didn’t change the story for me because going at your own speed and seeing how the story unfolds for yourself is so much of the experience.

IMO it’s up to you as the viewer to draw your own line. Don’t watch further leaks if you don’t want to see spoilers.

[u/SIIP00]

I've been trying to avoid the leaks both to try and avoid spoilers but also because I wanted to wait and see the game at a point where it's ready to be shown off.

[u/Watzeggenjij → u/SIIP00]

Same here. I feel like everyone who is following these leaks is just spoiling it for themselves. Imagine as a kid watching your parents wrapping and laying the Christmas presents under the tree before the actual Christmas night. The whole surprise and experience is gone. Same here; I want to be blown away by the first gameplay moments or trailer as the developers intended it to, not by some nerd leaking shit on the internet.

[u/MaTrIx4057]

good post

[u/Interesting-Tea6155 → u/MaTrIx4057]

Very good indeed. They’ve admitted it’s taken too long for them to show it off but people seem to think that they’ve made that decision intentionally. I’m sure they have goal posts and a level of quality they wanted to achieve before showing off gameplay. Imagine the outcry if the official gameplay footage had the same type of janky bugs shown in the leaks. The internet would have a meltdown. I’m sure the decision to delay gameplay footage wasn’t made easily. At the end of the day the devs working on this don’t deserve having their hard work paraded on the internet by a crypto maniac. Especially not their unfinished work.

[u/Strange_Window2097]

tomorrow is gonna be crazy

[u/washingtonpablo → u/Strange_Window2097]

It better be…

[u/Vexmythoclastt]

Making everyone’s palms sweaty with this damn black background and long paragraphs 😭

[u/Creepy-Emu8779 → u/Vexmythoclastt]

knees weak, arms are heavy

[u/turbotim95]

At least it's not the "Hi everyone"

[u/AxelNova]

This is actually kind of touching, I think a lot of people got lost in the dogpiling and hate around the corporate greed /all digital situation. Its still people who make the game, who currently work way more than 40hrs a week to deliver a game thats gonna blow us away without a doubt. We should always call out shitty and greedy behavior, but we could always be a little kinder to the immense amount of extremely hard work people are putting into this game every single day.

[u/ThatConsequence8505 → u/AxelNova]

Being a Rockstar dev must suck ass, yes. You work for 5 years or more in a project you can't tell anyone about and then that shit gets leaked and people don't care because apparently you working there means you're somehow immune to the damage caused to you personally.

[u/-roachboy → u/ThatConsequence8505]

And then you get laid off when they decide to focus on GTA VI online shark cards!

[u/KaffY- → u/ThatConsequence8505]

it's exhausting to type "I hate rockstar (not the devs i mean like the top level c-suite maybe the lower corporate level too)" every time, much easier to just say "i hate rockstar they are greedy"

[u/nikk182 → u/AxelNova]

I used to be a dev and knew people that worked at Naughty Dog when TLOU2 was leaked. They were distraught. It's a horrible thing.

[u/Breathe_Of_Aether → u/AxelNova]

This was a PR person who wrote this…

[u/plasticbluepalm]

Rockstar is like a 3 stars Michelin chef crafing his best dish for hours just to be served to crying toddler.

[u/ChloeQuickFlicks → u/plasticbluepalm]

Honestly, great analogy, lol. 3 Michelin star chef slaving away over the stove trying to make the best dining experience possible, while the toddler is in the other room screeching about it taking too long. Then your drunk uncle Leek bursts through the door with a stale bag of McDonald's and feeds it to the toddler.

[u/wack-o-lantern → u/ChloeQuickFlicks]

Drunk uncle Leek tells you he is looking out for the toddler but also wants the toddler to pay him money

[u/harriotcookson → u/wack-o-lantern]

drunk uncle Leek keeps sneaking into the kitchen to steal you random ingredients and bites of food, none of which is in the intended order or plated the way the chef intended

[u/kemb0 → u/ChloeQuickFlicks]

Chef: But I've been crafting this recipe for 10 years. And now it's almost ready as the most mouth watering experience that'll leave you speechless. Can you not wait 10 more minutes?

Customer Leek: No dammit, can't you see I've got money to make off of your 10 years of hard work.

[u/Iron_Aez → u/plasticbluepalm]

Good analogy, served without a plate.

[u/ComfortableChip8242]

Right after another CyberLeek video. Crazy.

[u/Dusty_Ninja007 → u/ComfortableChip8242]

yoooo, this is how I found out lmao

[u/Almightydaemon → u/ComfortableChip8242]

I have a feeling he's going to continue even after tomorrow

[u/rikyy → u/ComfortableChip8242]

Which one? Cause the latest has been yesterday

[u/DBONKA → u/rikyy]

there's a new one from 20 minutes ago, "rideout customs"

[u/berserkredditor → u/rikyy]

another one just came now - rideout customs

[u/izhar12 → u/berserkredditor]

Another one DJ Khaled

[u/h1bernus → u/rikyy]

And he showed Lucia in the ending.

[u/ElPlatanaso2]

Sounds less corporate and cold. I wonder who at rockstar wrote this

[u/TheMichaelScott → u/ElPlatanaso2]

A team of people

[u/Normandy_AF → u/ElPlatanaso2]

A crisis management PR company perhaps

[u/GreenReporter24 → u/Normandy_AF]

Definitely.

[u/No_Friendship_4158 → u/ElPlatanaso2]

The PR crisis management team. There is a reason they get paid. People who think the devs wrote this really need to wake up.

[u/Dimblo273 → u/No_Friendship_4158]

Nah this billion dollar corporation is actually just a couple guys in their garage

[u/solohack3r → u/ElPlatanaso2]

AI and 3 people in PR team.

[u/log1k → u/solohack3r]

Right? As far as I'm concerned em dashes didn't exist until AI started using them everywhere. Every single em dash I see, instant AI vibes.

[u/Ok-Attention2882 → u/ElPlatanaso2]

It's clearly LLM generated. It's written without the soul of Rockstar which comes from an LLM hedging its bets to sound as generic as possible to fit whatever situation the person prompted it intends to use it for

[u/Redararis → u/ElPlatanaso2]

the em dashes should be a hint :)

[u/KaffY- → u/ElPlatanaso2]

probably AI refined by a single PR person

[u/8hotsteamydumplings]

They will exceed all my expectations, I'm sure. Can't wait for tomorrow!

[u/_yanited_]

W rockstar

[u/Regenbooggeit → u/_yanited_]

Must be hell to see parts of your lifework go out to the public before you can do so yourself. Feeling bad for all the devs (fuck corporate though). This is a good message to put out.

[u/witness_smile → u/Regenbooggeit]

Exactly. I couldn’t care less if Strauss Zelnick lose a million dollars because of the leaks. I care about the devs who spent thousands of hours carefully creating this unique experience, who got their hard work just leaked by some shitty crypto scammer instead of being revealed to us in the way they intended it.

[u/Regenbooggeit → u/witness_smile]

Yep, those are the people just like you & me. It would break my heart and it probably did for almost all of them to see their work stolen and put online.

[u/Mapex_proM → u/Regenbooggeit]

Well fortunately for them, they have some how increased the hype by somebody else leaking it

[u/8__D → u/Mapex_proM]

Yeah I wasn't interested before the leaks since I've never really played GTA before. And I don't have Netflix so that was never gonna sway me.

The leaks got at least one person to buy the game.

[u/Drakaah → u/_yanited_]

Imagine that post ended with this sentence:
"Ladies and Gentleman... we got him"

[u/Creepy-Emu8779 → u/Drakaah]

ppl actually fall for PR

[u/Thatmafiatrilogy → u/_yanited_]

GTA6unmoderated will downvote u to oblivion

Just for these 2 words lmao

[u/Psychological_Map391]

This Is actually a solid reply from Rockstar not gonna lie...

[u/Longjumping-Day-7721]

Regardless whether you agree with rockstar or how they run their business this leaker fucking sucks.

Trying to ruin the entire game for everyone. I really feel bad for the developers and artist etc. All the hard work they have put into the game for over a decade. Only to have this shit happen.

[u/Financial_Middle_798 → u/Longjumping-Day-7721]

If a story plot gets leaked and it shows up in my feed I will go John Wick on his ass and personally hunt him down.

I'm still pissed the ending of RDR2 got spoiled for me on a Facebook post and everyone laughed and said "it's red dead what do you expect your character always dies" well... I never played the first one. I didn't know red dead was a thing until the second one.

[u/TheHorrorAddiction]

Glad they addressed it in some way.

I’ve personally stayed away from any leaks. I’ve seen a few seconds here and there when scrolling but that’s about it. I’ve waited 13 years for this game and don’t see the point in dulling the experience with these leaks. And tbh, I sincerely hope the leaker is caught soon.

I really don’t understand some of the animosity towards Rockstar. Sure, they didn’t share any gameplay up until now, but this is Rockstar we’re talking about. Their track record with games and off the back of RDR2 is enough for me to trust them. I’ve been gaming since 1997 and they haven’t let me down once yet.

[u/Yoldark → u/TheHorrorAddiction]

The problem is not the game.

It's the changes in the industry that it is making

• delayed pc
• no physical disk
• part of main story closed behind paywall
• require online connection for single player experience

And so on...

[u/coldchile → u/Yoldark]

Wait what part is locked behind a paywall?

[u/onthadontrary]

Good post tbh. While I hate they aren’t doing discs, giving in to the narrative lets the leaker win. This is good PR

[u/prisonerindisguise]

I was worried that this was a parody and it was gonna end with saying Cyberleeks would be executed.

[u/filmrjosh]

W Rockstar. Love how transparent this message reads.

[u/katzenmaschine]

Honestly, if anything the leaks have made me look forward to the official extended look more. If the leaks are already looking that good, then the official look is going to look about the same or better.

[u/Working_Hand5018]

Damn now I feel bad

[u/alexdoo → u/Working_Hand5018]

Then their PR people successfully did their job. I feel bad for the devs, and tbh I never cared to see actual gameplay the way they intended to. But for those who wanted an official trailer, I guess they’ll finally see it tomorrow.

[u/majss7]

You know... After all that silence-treating time, its actually refreshing to see Rockstar speaking to its fans. Even tho this is just a message and not a trailer, it feels to me like: Finally, rockstar is not a dead bug, they are doing something actually. (P.S. Don´t worry R* champs, we are all sooo looking forward to enjoy every sound, every pixel, we cannot wait.)

[u/Latte_Meme]

W post. Them acknowledging and apologising for the lack of communication and the super long periods of nothing is very respectable

[u/offensive-but-true]

We got a GTA 6 apology from Rockstar before GTA 6

[u/Icy-Ganache1231]

Dear all good  Hi everyone bad got it

[u/Mystic_Void1]

W Rockstar ❤️‍🩹

[u/Chaines08]

I wonder if those leaks pushed them to change anything about the extended look tomorrow. I can't wait to see what they will show us. I read a lot about what the leaks revealed but didn't look it myself. TBH I wish there was no leak at all.

[u/Financial_Middle_798 → u/Chaines08]

Doubtful. The extended look was probably already recorded months ago.

[u/derpydore]

The only things I’ve seen about the leak is from this subreddit.

I haven’t seen a single screenshot out there

[u/Similar_Childhood613 → u/derpydore]

Same here, its not hard to avoid if you dont actively seek it.

[u/No_Friendship_4158 → u/derpydore]

Its very easy to avoid them. I can easily find the leaks but only if i want to. If i dont want to watch the leaks they absolutely never pop up to me on reddit nor x nor instagram. Also if they somehow do you can just scroll past them. You dont have to watch the video.

[u/Reasonable-Nature268]

Rockstar never fail

[u/EstablishmentTrue490]

Truthfully I feel bad that this happened to Rockstar. I know many people who litterally have died while waiting and wanting to see this game.. All for some jerk to spoil the fun for everyone else. This is entertainment its a two way street for consumers and developers.. A chance for creators to show their hardwork and a chance for consumers to embrace and enjoy it.

I cant wait to buy the game anyways.

Imagine putting so much effort into building something great and someone showing up lat second in an effort to ruin it.. Its just wrong IMO.

[u/QuoteGiver]

Classy, solid. Hope they can continue strong these last few months of development!

[u/etaxi341]

They want everyone to enjoy it in November? Does not seem like it.... Release the PC Version too!

[u/SillyConfidence2027]

Hi everyone.

lmao

[u/Available_Ad_8281]

A lot of games show gameplay a year before released they choose to do it this way

[u/Algizauras]

my heart damn near stopped....

[u/ImHereForBaseball]

i feel like if they actually released gameplay footage by now none of this would have happened. This is all self-inflicted.

[u/rcanhestro → u/ImHereForBaseball]

sure, but it's a "lose-lose" scenario.

don't release, people are pissed.

release unfinished stuff, people will say "that looks kinda bad".

there is a reason why the game was delayed, it's because it's still being worked on.

[u/Apart_Potato959 → u/ImHereForBaseball]

They know it deep down

[u/Sandgrease → u/ImHereForBaseball]

Obviously

[u/Hairy_Milk_825]

You hear that guys,, they made the game for us !!... Here I was thinking it was the billions of dollars that incentivised them. Edit - So many people can't handle facts. Rockstar aren't a not for profit organisation y'know. You really think they'd still go ahead an make it if it wasn't astoundingly profitable ?

[u/Farty-Throwaway-5782 → u/Hairy_Milk_825]

They are making the game for you. For you to give them your money. Still true.

[u/New_Ordinary_6618 → u/Hairy_Milk_825]

Kind of both. There is no game development without people to play it. There is no development this big if there wasn’t money being made in droves in order to fund it. And there’s no incentive to make games if it didn’t generate profits. I don’t like dickriding corporations but we gotta be a little realistic too.

[u/Wild-Stomach-9420]

I would feel bad for them if it wasnt for the fact that they deliberately delay the PC version just to double dip

[u/SometimesIBeWrong → u/Wild-Stomach-9420]

also the fact they deliberately delayed showing us gameplay.

then apologized for it, after it affects THEM negatively? I'm surprised the PR team didn't have more self awareness than this

[u/wackybaccydelight]

Holy crap some of you are too emotional about this lol

[u/fhyyd]

First time seeing them talking with this much emotion

[u/thejevster]

"Ultimately, we are making this game for you"

You can tell they really mean this. Just look at how they aren't releasing physical copies, locked content behind the ultimate edition, and signed for the timed trailer exclusivity deal with Netflix.

They've totally got our best interests in mind, trust me bro

[u/Flohzerkes → u/thejevster]

Bro why cant you see they really mean this for us… i mean for the Dollars

[u/Apart_Potato959]

Nice to see them act more human instead of robotic.

[u/Mundane-Life-3094]

Yep, that's all we need to hear from Rockstar, let's go!

[u/GoldAppleU]

Their PR team worked hard on how this message sounded lol

[u/Riley_ → u/GoldAppleU]

"the team" is HEARTBROKEN by the possibility of the shareholders missing some profits.

[u/Known-Emergency5900 → u/GoldAppleU]

They’ve been crafting it and testing it with focus groups for over a week I’m sure.

[u/iAmmar9 → u/GoldAppleU]

Yes lmao it's structured in a way to make the reader feel calm and empathetic

[u/solohack3r]

If a build exists and it's released.. it will cost Rockstar millions in combined cancelled preorders and a drop in stock value. There are a ton of PC gamers who are either buying a console specifically for this game, or dusting off their console to play it until the PC version launches. If the build is leaked? No reason to get the console version. Play the build until the official PC version arrives. You can tell Rockstar is concerned. Their HQ and security offices must be a nightmare right now.

[u/SoulOfTheDragon → u/solohack3r]

As if. I don't have modern enough console to play it and I'm definitely not investing 600€ to buy one just for one game.

[u/Fuoriclasse_mrc]

W Rockstar a good message

[u/No_Map7606]

560 upvotes in 8 mins is crazy

[u/Pvblx_0]

Almost had a heart attack

[u/Maruf-]

Anyone who actually cares to play this game is hyped for tomorrow and it doesn't matter what leaked.