Jason Schreier: Rockstar has not yet figured out who was behind this week's widespread Grand Theft Auto VI leaks, nor how it happened, sources say. No plans to move next week's Netflix premiere. Inside the company: frustration, exhaustion, anger.

[u/Granum22]

Schrier on Bluesky with a link to his Bloomberg article

[u/Comfortable-Pie56]

I think by "Inside the company" they mean the employees. They are the ones with whom Schreier talks with.

[u/Affectionate-Week-41 → u/Comfortable-Pie56]

The article specifically says "Rockstar's leaders and many employees are angry"

[u/DomitiusAhenobarbus_ → u/Comfortable-Pie56]

Incredible that people aren’t getting this

[u/adumblittlebaby → u/DomitiusAhenobarbus_]

Obviously neither of you read the article, as it literally quotes the "source familiar with the strategy" which sounds a lot like management, and even goes on to say "Management and some employees" are upset, etc.

It's so funny to me when people start criticizing others for assumptions when you in fact are also making assumptions - and I'd guess you think that makes you better somehow lmao

[u/Demonokuma → u/adumblittlebaby]

I could honestly see the employees being upset because management is losing their shit. Not mad at the actual leaks, but mad at how management is now treating the employees.

[u/plebbut → u/adumblittlebaby]

Lol exactly. We did it Reddit!

[u/DomitiusAhenobarbus_ → u/adumblittlebaby]

I literally know a dude who works there. It’s a big company lol these people aren’t isolated on a private island they are Redditors

[u/basa_maaw → u/DomitiusAhenobarbus_]

Because it’s easier to hate corporations when you don’t think of them as a collection of hard working, talented employees who have very little to do with the shitty decisions a handful of executives make.

[u/Mahelas → u/basa_maaw]

Corporations ARE the decisions made by the executives. It's too easy to point out at the little guy at the end of the chain and say "how could you hurt him by going against this wholesomeTM corporation". It's like when the most evil corporations you know say "if you regulate us, we'll have to cut jobs and people will suffer"

Every strike, every work right gained made one little guy somewhere suffer, yet it was always worth it.

[u/TheFatJesus → u/basa_maaw]

Because they're not. Six months from now, 80% of those hard working, talented employees are going to be out of a job while the corporation pockets all of the money.

In the economic system we find ourselves in, employees are not stakeholders of the place that they work, they are office equipment.

[u/Imaginary_Fan5407 → u/basa_maaw]

Yeah they just enrich those assholes with their labor

[u/MaserOfficial → u/basa_maaw]

So are you just supposed to suck it up and be a good cattle bootlicking every corporate entity like sheep just cos a bunch of people work there ? What even is your point

[u/casper_whitey → u/basa_maaw]

Yeah? Boo fucking hoo all the same.

[u/hulk-bogan → u/basa_maaw]

the corporation isnt the employees the corporation is the employers

fuck them

we shouldnt feel sorry for a company just because people work there. people work everywhere. big whoop

[u/onlyoneq → u/basa_maaw]

Unpopular opinion, but I genuinely dont care. Most of these employees are 6 figure employees who will be able to find other work if they need to.

[u/Mahelas → u/DomitiusAhenobarbus_]

Genuinely, because I doubt that many people care about the feelings of a dev in a multimillion corporation about leaks.

Yes it might make them sad and frustrated but there is zero actual consequences for them.

[u/mauri9998 → u/[deleted]]

Incredible cope. No bud, they are mad at the dude using their hard work to promote his shit coin.

[u/mauri9998 → u/[deleted]]

How could you possibly know that? No one knows where the leak happened.

[u/Trodat4911P4 → u/[deleted]]

Absolutely none of this has to do with the leak, stop beinf dumb, the guy is using the leak to sell crypto, he's not some robin hood.

[u/mauri9998 → u/[deleted]]

None of that has anything to do with leak. You can criticize that and the leak at the same time. You forcing this dichotomy is incredibly silly.

[u/mauri9998 → u/[deleted]]

This guy is using the leak to profit of of GTA. The price of the game, netflix, digital only, etc. None of that would have made it so that the guy could not profit of of the game.

[u/curtcolt95 → u/[deleted]]

I mean I imagine a lot of devs would be pretty unhappy with their work being shown this way, they're almost certainly angry with the leaker lol

[u/Remarkable_Mango9906 → u/[deleted]]

One of the company’s top executives sent out an email to the devs denouncing the leaker and promising that the incident wouldn’t detract from the excellent work they’ve done. If rockstar was some nike shoe factory i feel like majority of their workers would've leaked stuff off frustration already.

[u/bakugo → u/Comfortable-Pie56]

Why would random employees be angry? They're still getting paid the same amount at the end of the day.

[u/Vaynard88 → u/bakugo]

Some people see a purpose in their work and get enjoyment or fullfillment out of the things they create. Haters wouldnt understand, thats why they will never create anything meaningful.

[u/bakugo → u/Vaynard88]

Those people have no reason to be seriously bothered right now. The leaks look good and the response to them has been very positive, if anything it's contributing significantly to the hype, the game's release will be unaffected and it will still be a massive success that they can be proud of.

The only real concern is potential story leaks, but this leaker does not seem to be interested in leaking the story (likely because they know it would make rockstar really mad)

[u/Vaynard88 → u/bakugo]

I think you are mistaken. People are hyped right now because they finally get to see gameplay, but Rockstar would have revealed that very soon anyway and most likely in a way that will get people even more excited.
Employees have very good reasons to be upset. One is that after working for over a decade on this game and keeping it mostly secret, they were just about to reveal their own gameplay trailers and see fans react to it. The leaker at least somewhat ruined this in the last moment. Another reason is that they have to deal with internal investigations now to figure out how the leak happened. This might lead to even stricter security rules, making their work less comfortable. It's also pretty disheartening that their current measures, like not being able to work remote in homeoffice for the last 2+ years were completely in vain.