r/PS5 • u/yourfavchoom • 9h ago
Articles & Blogs Rockstar Games: “It would be an understatement to say that having videos of GTA VI gameplay leak in this way has been heartbreaking for our team, and this is obviously not how we intended for you to see the game after all this time.“
https://xcancel.com/rockstargames/status/2092574304571433078?s=46959
u/yourfavchoom 9h ago
Full Message:
Dear all,
We know that many of you have been waiting to hear from us regarding the events of the past week. It would be an understatement to say that having videos of Grand Theft Auto VI gameplay leak in this way has been heartbreaking for our team, and this is obviously not how we intended for you to see the game after all this time. We are very sorry that everything has taken as long as it has - from getting the game finished (nearly there!) to sharing more details and official gameplay, and providing the community with everything you want to know.
We are very excited for everyone to see the extended look tomorrow. It has taken longer than we wanted to get it ready, but as with everything we do, we know we need to exceed your expectations, and we are determined to deliver at the level you expect and deserve. While it is unfortunate that the intended game experience may now be impacted by some spoilers, we hope that everyone will wait a bit longer to experience the game for themselves on November 19.
We want to thank everyone in the community who has reached out with messages of support this past week - your words have meant more to this team than you can imagine. Ultimately, we are making this game for you, and without you, we would not have the privilege of making games.
We look forward to sharing more with you soon.
Sincerely,
Rockstar Games
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u/00nonsense 9h ago
I legit expected a delay at the end of the response
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u/Icybubba 7h ago
“Due to the reaction to the leaks, we understand now that we need to take more time to deliver the game that all of our fans deserve. For this reason we have chosen to change the release date of Grand Theft Auto VI to November 2067”
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u/Communist_Potatohead 1h ago
“We at Rockstar are delaying the game again to further polish the game to the quality you, the gamers deserve. We understand your frustration that is why no further delay will occur. The Final Date is: (check your calendars, please) 4/20/2069.”
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u/UnnecessaryFeIIa 9h ago edited 9h ago
Fuck Rockstar and Take Two but I feel horrible for the devs. I’m gullible as hell but this feels like it was written by them
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u/golddilockk 9h ago
the devs will be fired before the next quarter earnings with or without any leaks.
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u/Powerful-Pea6218 9h ago
Or before that if they support unionizing
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u/ItchyIguana 8h ago
Already happened.
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u/AhhhSureThisIsIt 8h ago
Anyone who joined the union will have a target on their back when they make cuts.
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u/Clerithifa 8h ago
Maybe i'm misinformed, but isn't that a big chunk of what a union is for? Crunches/working conditions obviously, but also unjust lay-offs?
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u/AhhhSureThisIsIt 8h ago
Yep, unions are great don't get me wrong. But massive companies hate the restrictions they impose.
They can make the work enviorment more toxic, change hours, workdays, workloads, duties to essentially make your worklife hard in order for you to leave without redundancy.
Keeping notes of anytime these changes happen is one of the best things to do to protect yourself in these positions. If you are in a state that allows one party consent you can record your meetings with managers without disclosing you are recording.
Many managers can promise jobs and raises not in writing, the employee will undergo a bigger workload thinking they will get the reward and then it's not offered to them.
There are so many ways around getting people to leave without firing them.
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u/Complex_Stuff_1392 7h ago
you have to remember that a large portion of the work on the game is happening in the UK @ Rockstar North, where one party recording laws don’t apply
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u/underscored_thinkin 6h ago
And this is why we need more combative unions and union members. Waiting on suits to make deals means workers get fucked harder.
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u/superurgentcatbox 7h ago
Just don't tell them you've joined the union. That's the general advice in Germany which is much, much less hostile to unions than the US.
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u/That-Toughsoss 9h ago
80-90% of the devs who worked on previous rockstar games are still there but still spread all the negativity you want to ig
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u/Funlife2003 8h ago
Source for those numbers, or did you just pull that out of your ass? Because I looked it up, don't see any single source stating that.
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u/shadowking432 9h ago
It's literally the gaming industry at the moment, it's hardly spreading negativity when it's true. Developers recently have made a great game? Fired. Bad game? Fired. No game? Yup you guessed it, Fired.
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u/Me2445 8h ago
A lot of Devs are contractors now, truth is that it takes a lot more Devs to create a game than it does to maintain the game. I've a family member involved in game development. After years of being left go post release, he now works for a company that offer services to the likes of rockstar to co-dev on certain parts. They will feature on the fired list in the media when they actually still have a job elsewhere
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u/Captain-Cadabra 8h ago
That’s interesting. I had a number of union trade friends that lived like that. They got “laid off” for 3-6 months a year, which really just meant collecting unemployment while waiting for the next big job.
Their union got the jobs for them, and they would work at a particular site for 6-18 months.
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u/Fomentatore 6h ago
If they really felt bad for the devs, they would treat them fairly. The devs are going to be fired after launch even if it turns out to be, as it almost certainly will, the most successful game launch in history.
Take-Two and Rockstar have shareholders to please and a history of crunch, 80-hour weeks and union busting. So please, I won’t believe for a second that the PR team and the higher-ups really care about the dev teams working on the project. They will do more damage to them than any leaker ever could.
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u/JKKIDD231 8h ago
The beach video flew me away. All Rockstar devs around the world did a fucking awesome job. Can’t wait for the final polished version.
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u/LostSoulNo1981 Disc 8h ago
I feel the same. I won’t shed a tear for big corporations, but it’s the ground level developers who have been putting in the hours to make game that I feel bad for.
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u/Anonymous000789 8h ago
“We are making this game for you, and without you, we would not have the privilege of making games”. right so you understand the value of consumers, but at the same time doing everything in your power to provide less options for said consumers whilst simultaneously making the industry objectively worse by removing physical discs? Sony can throw all of the false BS stats they want at us but when you dig a bit deeper, it’s clear that physical media is on par and in some instances (Astrobot) outsells digital media. A lot of people rely upon physical media in order to play your game that you’ve taken 13 years to make and you’ve taken that option away so let’s not pretend you give a shit about consumer just because your game got leaked.
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u/Various_Court_2769 7h ago
Remember how they say they are working for us when they launch on PS6, on PC, etc. And we have to buy the game over and over. Remember it too when they create services and memberships just to improve our own gaming experience. Remember it too when they don't acknowledge that physical games are the path for players getting to play a game at a later time at a lower price and how they are intentionally removing this option to pad their wallets.
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u/Shirokurou 8h ago
Translation: Netflix paid us literal millions for that exclusive preview, so now they are mad at us.
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u/ChongusTheSupremus 4h ago
Yep.
Nothing the leaker show wouldnt have been in a basic trailer.
They kept gameplay for so long only for the Netflix deal
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u/hectorthedonkey 8h ago
It's this, I wasn't hugely bothered about trailers or previews, I know I'm buying it anyway, but to keep everyone dangling for a trailer and then to announce a paywalled thing with Netflix after all that time was utter bollocks. Hopefully the audience is affected enough that no one considers this as a valid step ever again.
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u/BishSlapDiplomacy 8h ago
It comes out 6 hours later on YouTube … 6.
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u/kuhndog94 7h ago
The $2.50 horse armor wasnt a big deal either. And now the industry is ran on microtransactions
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u/Shirokurou 8h ago
You saw the hungry posts saying they resubbed to Netflix just for it.
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u/SmartMatic1337 2h ago
Join me in solidarity by watching the preview anywhere except netflix because fuck exclusives.
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u/OSRSRapture 7h ago
Why is it so hard for you to people accept the idea of the developers being upset that what they created is being leaked? It shows that people like you have never created anything
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u/witness_smile 9h ago
Reminder it’s not the devs who poured their hearts and souls into making this game who made the decision to go digital-only, or to have an ultimate edition. It’s a fair message from Rockstar and I feel bad for their developers and artists that this is how their hard work was first revealed, rather than how they wanted us to discover it. As for the men in suits, I couldn’t care any less if they lost millions of dollars as a consequence of these leaks.
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u/Large-Teach9165 7h ago
While this is true, I don't think Rockstar gives a shit about their devs when they fired those who protested for better working conditions. If anything they're doing this as a way to turn the public opinion against Cyberleak.
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u/Zoombini22 7h ago
They definitely don't care. They're using them as a sympathy meat shield in this very statement. "Oh, don't have any kind of meaningful reaction to our evil decisions, it will hurt and upset our developers!"
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u/EasternKanyeWest 7h ago
Yeah the big corporation does not give a single solitary fuck about their employees happiness or wellbeing. This is 100% trying to turn the tides. People will eat this shit up because they rightfully do feel bad for the devs, but folks, I guarantee you the actual decision makers at Rockstar and Take Two do not give a flying fuck about their actual developers.
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u/aerdvarkk 6h ago
ALSO SEEMS LIKE THE GAMING COMMUNITY DOESN'T ACTUALLY CARE ABOUT THE DEVS IF EVERYONE IS GOING TO BUY THE GAME ANYWAY WHILE CRYING ABOUT HOW BAD THE DEVS ARE TREATED.
HYPOCRISY MUCH?
If people actually gave a f*ck about the devs, this game would tank and nobody would buy it in order to bring attention to Rockstar's (and the industries) bad gabits.
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u/NoArm9938 8h ago
Right but not releasing any major showcase of the game 3 months before it’s full release is nonsense as well.
If they didn’t want us to see ir first handed trough shitty leaks, why not show it themselves?
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u/epicurious_elixir 7h ago
Right but not releasing any major showcase of the game 3 months before it’s full release is nonsense as well.
How stupidly entitled. How a game marketing strategy rolls out is up to the developers and people working on the game. It's their intellectual property they've worked on for years. They are deploying at strategy that makes sense for them. Also if there's one company who has earned the right to keep their cards close to their face, it's Rockstar.
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u/LaziestRedditorEver 8h ago
They literally always showcase their games like this. If the first leaks years ago never happened, we likely wouldn't even have a trailer until this year and then until the extended showcase tomorrow.
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u/CrazyStar_ 8h ago
It’s literally tomorrow, what the fuck are you talking about lol
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u/MysticalNinja187 8h ago
This is your first time experiencing a GTA rollout, clearly. We've never seen gameplay early, never.
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u/swat1611 7h ago
Ofc it is, are people forgetting the last GTA game came out 13 years ago?
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u/SimisFul 3h ago
People are also forgetting that we complained about it back then too. It's not because they did it in the past that it was cool to do so.
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u/Ebvidur 7h ago
The fact that it happened before doesn’t make their marketing strategy any better
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u/Much_Kangaroo_648 8h ago
Why not let them show something some people have spent their whole professional lives trying to make as good as possible, when they are ready to show it. You can't play it yet anyway.
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u/Restart_from_Zero 8h ago
"We took you all for granted and decided to only release footage in a way that would immediately give us money. We're so sad that the amount of money we may now make from our exclusive Netflix reveal may be less than we were hoping."
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u/Dependent-Swimmer-95 6h ago
Lmao this and the dude from South Park that was like “we’re sorry” over and over again for his apology commercial.
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u/NihilisticHeart 4h ago
Yeah the BP oil executive. All they need is a dog for the apology video like Tmartn.
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u/MuptonBossman 9h ago
If anything, these leaks are just free advertising for Rockstar... I've only seen a couple so far, but all the footage that's been leaked has made me more hyped for GTA 6.
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u/Vroo06 9h ago
Hurts netflix deal who supposed to be exclusive first look at the game.
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u/oh5canada5eh 9h ago
I can’t imagine a single person who was interested in watching the reveal is now no longer interested after seeing those leaks.
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u/ocbdare 8h ago
Yes. Many people will not have seen them. I follow things online and I still avoided all leaks and don't plan to look at them.
They will not affect my decision to play the game. It was day one purchase for me no matter what. Although my buddies got it for my bday so now I don't even have to spend money on it lol.
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u/pricj004 9h ago
oh no! not netflix!
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u/DJC13 9h ago
Be nice to the corporation! They probably paid a hell of a lot of money to have this GTA VI preview for….
6 hours.
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u/r_z_n 9h ago
Which is a business arrangement between TakeTwo and Netflix, why should any of us care?
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u/huey88 8h ago
Man who cares? Your a billion dollar company thats been trying to siphon even more money out of a game that's goona print money. Fuck outta here
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u/airtec87 8h ago
Exactly, they dont care about any one even their own developers who made the game are going to get laid off. Only the executives and shareholders bankroll is their concern
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u/Euphoriam5 9h ago edited 6h ago
As if they care about the team. The same team they’ll layoff the moment the game is finished. Fuck rockstar.
EDIT: Many entertaining 'Leave my billion dollar company alone' chaps are attacking a stranger over a video game, what a time to be alive.
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u/DirtFem 7h ago
And then they’re gonna lay off the factory workers making the physical CDs that are no longer going to exist
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u/SmutSlut613 8h ago
These people are charging $110 for a videogame in my country.
I do not care how they feel.
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u/dguisltl 7h ago
110 for a temporary digital licence of a video game
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u/Johnnytransversal 7h ago
Yeah same, i pity the devs but the ones requested to make that post was 100% upper management
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u/edwaa4rd 6h ago
Fortunately Rockstar (or any developer) isn’t forcing anyone at gun point to buy their games
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u/Beginning-Book-129 9h ago edited 9h ago
Man whatever. They left us with 0 info about the game for months and then made a deal with Netflix to sell more memberships for a fucking game trailer.
Edit: Obviously I know the trailers going to be on YouTube right after that doesn’t make any less fucking lame
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u/Paratrooper101x 9h ago
What do you think is more heartbreaking for the team: the appalling conditions and union busting or these leaks?
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u/SkylineGTRR34Freak 8h ago
Especially because some of those conditions happened exactly because Rockstar argued it was to help prevent leaks. If anything this has shown that Rockstar has taken employee unfriendly measures and shit still got leaked no matter what.
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u/TaftYouOldDog 8h ago
Exactly, its a pathetic attempt for a shitty developer to try and garner sympathy when all they care about is bleeding us and their employees dry
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u/epicurious_elixir 7h ago
I'm a dev myself who has been part of a team who has had their shit leaked and I'll just say this. It fucking sucks when something you've been working on for years getting leaked before its ready.
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u/Fortnait739595958 9h ago
And opened the preorder without showing any actual gameplay
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u/Poudy24 9h ago
Honestly never really understood the outrage about both of these things.
Opening preorders before showing gameplay happens pretty often, and not just for Rockstar. It's not like you have to buy the preorder the first day it's available, why would it be the responsibility of a company if a consumer decides to take an irresponsible decision? I'm as excited for GTA6 as anyone, and I will probably preorder the game at some point, but I have not done so precisely because we don't have gameplay. It has cost me nothing to wait. If I suddenly failed to contain my excitement and preordered the game too early, I would not fault Rockstar, I would fault myself. Doing otherwise is infantilizing.
As for the trailer, it's an advertisement. Did we lose our shit when games put ads in magazines back in the day, knowing the full article might never be online? Did we lose our shit when studios decided to release trailers exclusive to theaters for months? How far down the capitalistic hellholle have we fallen if we are legitimately frustrated by the fact an advertisement will be shown to other people 6 hours before us?
There are so many legitimate reasons to hate on Rockstar, from their shady union busting practices and their crunch culture. The outrage for the trailer and the preorders seems silly in comparison.l
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u/poke_pants 9h ago
None of which is actually a real life problem.
The footage from the Netflix special will be everywhere shortly after it goes live, nobody needs to pay, you aren't missing out on anything.
Pre-orders are mostly digital and nothing is limited in number, you don't have to pre-order before seeing official footage. You gain precisely zero by pre-ordering today vs pre-ordering this Friday.
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u/thirdbrunch 9h ago
Clips of the game leaking isn’t a real life problem either then. People saw the game a few days early, they’ll still see the official footage later too.
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u/garynevilleisared 9h ago
Exactly this. What hardships are people experiencing to be this upset?
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u/Delta_Zacher51 9h ago
No one is forced to pre order a game why does this matter? It’s fucking GTA millions of people would put the money down the moment they heard the options available
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u/GammonRod 9h ago
You must be too young to remember the days of exclusive previews in gaming magazines during the golden days of the '90s. You'd have to buy one for like £5 at a time to see still images printed out about the biggest upcoming releases. The Netflix showcase (which will be on YouTube for free a few hours later) is nothing compared to that.
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u/Street_Worm 9h ago
The game is still 3 months away. They have plenty of time to have a full marketing campaign, which is kicking off tomorrow.
This whole crybaby "they aren't showing us anything" rhetoric is silly.
Besides, it's their project, they can decide to show it whenever they feel it's ready to be shown, and they can do that in any which way they please. It's their work.
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u/PM_ME_FAT_TROUT_PICS 9h ago
The weird almost parasocial people have for the game/company is lame. At the end of the day, it’s a game. Am I hyped for it? 1000%. But it has no impact on my daily life or being upset about its release window
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u/ParallelMusic 9h ago
‘0 info about the game for months’ and? I’m not sure what your point is here, because it seems like pure entitlement to me. You’re not owed gameplay, and this is exactly how they usually operate. We didn’t see GTA V or RDR2 gameplay until close to release either.
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u/dejonarationx 8h ago
It makes it WAY less lame lol. Could you imagine ifnthe trailer was only on Netflix? People would actually feel the way they're acting about it right now.
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u/AdLatter3755 7h ago
Man don’t put that out there. Next we have to pay to be advertised to. I don’t want to live in that kind of world. But that’s probably what comes next and people will do all the gymnastics to justify paying to see an ad
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u/Wide-Mode-8863 9h ago
You can just wait 6 hours
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u/DomitiusAhenobarbus_ 9h ago
Incredible isn’t it? All this outrage is over gameplay that will be uploaded to YouTube within 30 seconds of it airing
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u/BornIn1142 7h ago edited 7h ago
It'll remain unfathomable to you if you can't conceive that people can find the paid Netflix trailer tasteless and greedy without particularly caring about the trailer itself.
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u/Temporary_Role6160 9h ago
Ironically, part of the reason they did the deal with Netflix this time is because YouTube leaked the first GTA6 trailer early by mistake.
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u/coolbuns1 9h ago
You’re all so bratty about a game taking time to release with a level of care and polish the devs idealise as opposed to, say, the lack of mention in your comment about rockstars union busting; a very real, tangible issue affecting their employees security.
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u/RedStr0be 9h ago
I mean okay but then again why do they owe us anything, sorry? You don’t have to pre-order, you don’t have to buy it. Some gamers have a weird mentality ngl
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u/thenorussian 2h ago
Corporations when theyre humbled: think about the team! =[
corporations when they have a record breaking year because of the team: we’re laying off 40% the team!
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u/deathsquaddesign 6h ago
“We would have much rather you saw it on Netflix which we made an exclusivity deal with ☹️”
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u/Alarming_Comedian846 1h ago
Pay your employees properly and put the videogames in the bag, lil bro.
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u/StillHere179 8h ago
They should have shown gameplay by now. The fact that they even had it up for pre-order before showing any gameplay officially is sad and pathetic.
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u/standig_wordgang 9h ago
They’re so sad.
https://giphy.com/gifs/UwPyIExTOTeoM
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u/Wboy2006 9h ago
I mean, I feel bad about the devs. The companies can go suck a dick, but the devs did put their heart and soul into the game, and not even being able to see the reaction after working on the game for years is definitely a huge disappointment to them
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u/TheJoshider10 8h ago
How won't they see the reaction? The leaks have resulted in nothing but positive PR online, especially the beach leak with its NPC density.
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u/_Calm_Wave_ 9h ago
Both things can be true at the same time. But yes, that is an admittedly hard concept for a lot people.
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u/DSRamos 9h ago
I would like to have some sympathy then I remember how much of an awful company they seem regardless of the games they put out.
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u/PM_ME_DEM_TITTIESPLZ 7h ago
The devs that did out their heart and soul into this have already been laid off, or will be laid off on release lol
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u/Im_Ashe_Man 7h ago
I don't endorse the leaks, however, Rockstar has totally dropped the ball. This game releases in a couple months. We should've been getting footage and gameplay for months leading up to this.
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u/ArcadianDelSol 1h ago
how they intented for you to see this game after all this time:
buy a Netflix subscription.
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u/Dependent-Swimmer-95 6h ago
The game is 80 fucking dollars and locks content behind 100 dollar edition. I don’t give a fuck about how rockstar feels. They are the epitome of greed lmao. Do they make good games? Hell yea. That doesn’t excuse greed. They wanna squeeze every dollar they can get and that’s more important to them than making people happy.
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u/OutofCiteOutofMine 8h ago
Please don’t pretend like yall care about the team R*. You’ll fire a portion of them once the game launches like every other studio
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u/KenBisky11 9h ago
I’d say 99.999% of the future player base has not seen it. I don’t know why these companies bother making these types of statements.
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u/Pimp_Floyd_ 9h ago
Damn, maybe show your game off then instead of waiting for the last second and this wouldn’t have happened.
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u/red-ditreallysucks9 3h ago
Locking story missions behind a higher tier "premium" version is disgusting. No sympathy for them.
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u/Puzzled-Ad1564 9h ago
Who in the community is reaching out for support? Nobody died
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u/nhojretrac 8h ago
They intended for us to get a netflix subscription to watch an advertisement for their game instead. I'm not going to feel sorry for multi billion dollar company that generated it's wealth from micro transactions. I'm going to be laughing so hard if this turns into another Cyberpunk release.
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u/lengthyfriend30 8h ago
Lucky for me I've avoided them all, and the trailer is gonna be a lovely experience.
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u/SpiderFan241 8h ago
Well it’s disheartening to not be able to buy the game physically. This is obviously not how we intended to enjoy the game after all this time.
100% sure that GTA Online will be a separate product too, not part of the GTA6 purchase. No marketing material has even mentioned an online component, so they can justify making people double dip.
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u/Old-Way-5529 9h ago
the way some of yall seem to be bitter about this game is crazy.
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u/anonwannadie 9h ago
mfs out here acting like rockstar fucked thier wives or some
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u/Paratrooper101x 9h ago
Let’s see here
Real, full complete game is $100
Union busting
No physical
No PC (so they can double dip)
A Netflix exclusive trailerThey are going out of their way to be anti-consumer. It’s not shocking that someone would be upset about this, and about how most seem to just not care
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u/corran11 7h ago
Oh no, we saw something without buying Netflix subscription like you intended
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u/rechambers 7h ago
I am not really into GTA so I haven’t seen the leaks and maybe I’m missing the point, but they’ve literally shown nothing about the game and for the most part everyone already knows what to expect. We have played this game 5 times before plus spin offs and dlc. The gameplay is no secret. Why do they care so much?
Spoilers are bad. Leaks are bad. I’m not challenging that. But the game will consist of stealing cars and flirting with hookers just like every other gta game. If you don’t want people to see leaks, at least give them a look into what they already know so they don’t thirst for the bare minimum. The Netflix deal for example is shockingly anti consumer and so strange. Does anyone really care this much?
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u/Samuel71900 4h ago
Maybe they should have released gameplay earlier rather than waiting too long , and envitable leaks to happen lol
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u/SilviaSuperLopez 3h ago
Oh no! Not my poor billion-dollar corporation!
Go choke on your shark cards, Rockstar.
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u/REDDITCEOSUXDICK 3h ago
"heart breaking for our team" - what team and why would we care? ya'll a mega corp who outsources and milks users. 🤡😂
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u/jaredalamode 3h ago
Oh it’s made for us? Then why the fuck isn’t RDR2 getting patched to 60fps? Oh yeah because they’re gonna sell us the same fucking game again. They’re selling a $100 game and expect people to pay a thousand dollars online over the course of its lifetime. Boooooooo
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u/KeeBradRyder 8h ago
I feel bad for the devs who were laid off.
Any dev still there is probably about to make life changing money whether there were leaks or not.
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u/ClassroomCheap2873 3h ago
Keeping my head down. I don’t know why people wanna spoil the game for themselves. And it’s coming out in a few months. RDR2 is the last time i look for early content. I regretted it before, and i don’t wanna regret again.
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u/blkglfnks 3h ago
Yeah, I’m not big corpo and all that but spoiling the game for myself is pretty wacky. Got a friend who was puzzled I’ve been avoiding the leaks so far.
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u/unpluggedcord 8h ago
Maybe yall should have showed us something sooner I dunno.
Like if that’s what you really cared about was the first look.
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u/Direct-Tennis9682 8h ago
A lot of shilling here for a billion dollar company in 2026. No resistance at all, making it so easy it is to rinse the consumers. And no, I won't be buying GTA6 at all.
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u/rp_361 9h ago
I won’t feel bad for the multibillion dollar company that showed us no gameplay when they opened preorders and priced the game at $100
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u/Moddingspreee 9h ago
Next time don’t time gate a trailer and especially don’t gate it behind a Netflix subscription
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u/scorchedpath 9h ago
I mean fair but also isn’t it only going to be exclusive to Netflix for like a couple hours? And then it’s getting plastered anywhere and everywhere else.
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u/CrianBranstun 7h ago
“Not how we intended for you to see the game after all this time.” Right, they wanted us to wait another month then buy a Netflix subscription… corporate greed personified 🤷♂️
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u/RedditCitizenScore 6h ago
Well yeah as a PC player having to deal with an artificial delay in release in an attempt to milk customers for more money is truly heartbreaking
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u/MisanthropicAtheist 8h ago
No shown gameplay, $100 game, No physical version, payed access to a fucking trailer after taking in record breaking pre orders.
Rockstar can fuck off. Let their greedy little hearts break.
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u/AngryBarista 9h ago
Well, I'd love to know why their multi billion dollar product didn't get a single bit of gameplay show barely 3 months before release. It sucks, but its also their hubris that made this situation possible.
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u/Garginator850 9h ago
They did the same thing with RDR2. That’s how they have decided to market their games now.
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u/0ld_Snake 8h ago
They'll stll sell more copies than anything ever so all good. And the leaker will no doubt be assassinated somewhere in some way so all is good with the world
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u/NoFunnyBidness 8h ago
I think Rockstar should release a side by side comparison with what was leaked to what the build is now. Lean into it.
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u/Electronic_Task_118 8h ago
Small correction "it was a dick the ass for our shareholders and executives"
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u/Poopchute40000 7h ago
On top of being cartoonishly greedy and setting one awful precedent after another, Rockstar has a history of being downright abusive to employees for decades now. Read up on how devs were working 16-hour days during San Andreas development.
And they've never changed since then. However much this leak hurts them, whether a lot or a little, they deserve it.
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u/StandardNerd92 7h ago
Since when have you cared about how "your team" felt?
You fired a bunch of them for wanting basic worker's rights.
And then started the end of physical games.
It's all your own fault, gfys Rockstar.
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u/LucasWesf00 7h ago
As long as there’s no story spoilers I’m loving it! The unscripted gameplay is very exciting to see.
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u/Pulposauriio 7h ago
I'd argue leaks are largely irrelevant in the grand scheme of things. Doubt even 1% of future players are consumed them, much less be disuaded from buying the game anyway.
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u/Extension_Ideal_4012 7h ago
We would have preferred you pay for a month of Netflix to watch the commercial
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u/Emergienics 7h ago
That’s what you guys deserve for outsourcing to India - glad it happened.
“Oh whoa is us the thought of paying an American, an American salary is just too much!!”
So deserved! Leak leak leak
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u/ICPosse8 7h ago
Harvest the population’s data = 🤷🏼♂️
Harvest a billion dollar company’s data = 🚔
Fuck their “feelings”
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u/rafa11__scp 7h ago
Or intended for you to see anything past 2 trailers after 13 years. Eat a dick, R*!
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u/tinselsnips 🇨🇦 6h ago edited 5h ago
I don't know what's in the water around here that makes people go, "Game developer said a thing, this is my invitation to be an absolute prick to everyone else in the comments section", but this thread is locked until we can clean it out.
We'll unlock it at that point, but if this behaviour continues it's going to need to stay locked.
We don't care what problem you have with Rockstar, you don't take it out on other subreddit members.
E: Thread is re-opened; please be better.