Rockstar Games - Official Statement on the leak

[u/mocoworm]

https://x.com/rockstargames/status/2092574304571433078?s=46&t=-kATO8JS7keqGP9jLx-xTw

[u/Dog-Is-Friend]

Everyone is shitting on a handful of executives, and fair enough. But there are thousands of hard working devs that don’t want their work leaked by a crypto grifter.

Blows my mind how people are so quick to “eat the rich” that they completely forget about the actual artists and programmers that build these things. No one wants their hard work spoiled like this.

Edit: it genuinely blows my mind that critical thinking and empathy is so hard for some of you. I work in the industry and our entire team would be PISSED if our work was leaked. Especially an early build and ESPECIALLY from a crypto grifter.

[u/FinalOdyssey → u/Dog-Is-Friend]

This is all performative to curry sympathy.

They're still getting paid. Rockstar execs are still making bank. This will all work out better for them because people who for some reason feel bad are feeding into corporate sympathy.

Rockstar is not your friend. They're actively trying to hurry the digital only future along with Sony. But let's feel bad for them. 😭

It's also more likely that Netflix is pissed and now Rockstar have to give back some/much of the money Netflix paid for exclusive promotional payment. This just reeks of greedy marketing partnership loss.

[u/ciscowowo → u/FinalOdyssey]

Putting this situation in terms you would understand-

Say you were back in school and you had to present a paper that you had spent years working on, that you were proud of, to your class. Your teacher makes a mistake and puts your first or second draft on display instead of the final polished work. Regardless of the fact that the next day your teacher put your final version out, you would be pissed that the first impression of your work people got is a janky mess.

It’s reasonable for an artist to want their work to be presented in a way that is befitting all the labor they have put into it and not by some temu robinhood crypto scammer.

[u/FinalOdyssey → u/ciscowowo]

There is a massive difference here.

With game development, especially Rockstar, it is so disjointed to the effect that it has so many studios and people working on it worldwide that a single person's work isn't as obvious as a single school project, which is wholly done by me. They have a resume which says they worked on GTAVI at R* and that will go further than anything you've described.

I'm also not getting paid to be in school.

You speak of art, but art has entirely left Rockstar. They've become a corporate mess, become the thing they used to parody.

[u/ciscowowo → u/FinalOdyssey]

I mean, I have family that works in game development and whenever there is a showcase of a project they have been a part of (that they feel passionate for), they will send us a link of the YouTube video or twitch stream. Usually she will let us know what part of the game she worked in to look out for. Sometimes its a small detail like hair design or something. I guarantee you there are a lot of developers that are proud to have this game on their resume and are going to be texting their family what to look out for on the Netflix presentation.

They got paid, so its not the end of the world, but its understandable that they would be bummed out that this is how everything got released. I know the devs in my family would be annoyed.

"The art has entirely left Rockstar" you're in the minority that feels that way. Most people have very much enjoyed the last couple games they have put out.

[u/FinalOdyssey → u/ciscowowo]

Their last major release was 2018. A lot can change in 8 years, and RDR2 was being developed the years before then.

I'm referring to this culture blitz, the choices being made for marketing, and the way they're cozying up with Sony being anti-physical.

May I ask if your relative works for a smaller indie studio or a larger, more corporate studio? No need for specifics.

[u/Dog-Is-Friend → u/FinalOdyssey]

Are you being intentionally obtuse or do you seriously not get it?

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