Rockstar Games is reportedly furious over the latest wave of GTA 6 leaks, but it has no plans to change the date of the game’s Netflix premiere.

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[–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

Wish they'd chill out, a few leeks here and there aren't going to change anything about the upcoming pile of money gamers across the globe will be delivering.

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  • [–] 1 point 2 months ago

    Gotta get those clicks, amirite Rok$tar?

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  • [–] 29 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    The trailer/extended look has a six hour exclusivity to Netflix before being released on other streaming platforms. I'm not sure if you were asking about the game itself. Supposedly Netflix paid around $100 million for that deal. I don't know if there are any official sources for that info though.

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  • [–] 40 points 2 months ago (10 children)

    It's a dumb promotional thing, they aren't "Premiere"ing the game, they are are showing gameplay footage. It's an Ad that Netflix users are paying for the privilege to be advertised to.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (6 children)

    yes, by subscribing from netflix, forever

    edit: yes, it was supposed to be unsubscribing

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  • [–] 19 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    I think you mean unsubscribing…

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  • [–] 11 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    No one says subscribe from to mean unsubscribe. I tried to make it make sense, but it's too much work to understand when no one says it, and everyone calls it unsubscribe. To subscribe is to scribe your name, sub (at the bottom) of a document. That is, to enter the subscription agreement. You don't sign a new agreement to exit the previous one, you just exit it (stop paying). You undo the contract, you don't pay and they don't give service, we say you unsubscribe.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago

    Get rekt lmao, stay mad.

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  • [–] 25 points 2 months ago

    Is this that company that fucks over its workers and union busted?

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  • [–] 23 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    I wish the intentions of the leaks were because of how rockstar has been about the employees and unionizing but it’s just cynical shit with more cynical shit.

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  • [–] 63 points 2 months ago* (24 children)

    I still believe the theory that the leaks are part of Rockstar's own advertising campaign, if there a company that know they can milk their own customers aside from Nintendo, it's Rockstar.

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  • [–] 30 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    I'd agree if it weren't for the cryptoslop memecoin thing attached to it.

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  • [–] 13 points 2 months ago* (2 children)

    Agree, this is the only weak point of this theory

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  • [–] 40 points 2 months ago* (8 children)

    Why should it be an advertising campaign? Using a made-up name, filling videos with watermarks and pushing a crypto meme coin?

    I don't even see how this could be something good for them. They are going to officially show it in a week and I don't think they need more hype than that they already have.

    These are just people who are trying to make money with crypto.

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  • [–] 24 points 2 months ago (5 children)

    The very first GTA was promoted through "outrage" that they stirred up themselves. I trust their marketing department about as far as I can throw them.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (2 children)

    But it turns out you are actually Andre the Giant, so you can throw them very far and thus trust them a lot.

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  • [–] 5 points 2 months ago* (last edited 2 months ago) (1 child)

    Andre the Giant has been dead for over 30 years so I'm not sure he can throw as far as you're expecting.

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    Well that's what you think, he's actually just been in hiding in a cave in northern Kazakhstan to escape all that public attention. And now he's on Lemmy because he did actually get a little lonely.

    My mind is a funny place.

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  • [–] 2 points 2 months ago

    They still market with outrage, but not like this I'm pretty certain. The Netflix thing I believe is on purpose to generate outrage. They had people posting all over complaining that it's behind a paywall. You don't get marketing that good, even if you pay for it. The leak though? It doesn't feel like something they'd do.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago (1 child)

    The issue with this theory is the crypto scam, but aside from that I would guess that this way they can keep their players engaged with the game since they don't like sharing anything at all and gamers want everything as soon as possible

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  • [–] 4 points 2 months ago

    The one thing making me slightly doubtful of it being a typical PR stunt is that the leaker has also been advertising their shit-ass memecoin crypto. Unless that crypto has some link to Rockstar, I don't think they're behind it.

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    It's real. Rockstar loves to release on consoles first so people buy it on console first to play it early and then on PC for better graphics and modding. Leak shows the PC version working just fine so the PC players are more likely to wait for that release.

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  • [–] 7 points 2 months ago (4 children)

    That’s a massive legal risk. I don’t think it’s them.

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  • [–] 8 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    Can you explain how? Who would prosecute this?

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  • [–] 6 points 2 months ago (3 children)

    I mean of course it won’t. Netflix paid them a handsome some of money for that exclusivity and they are certainly contractually obligated to honor it

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    I heard (somewhere) that there pre-release copies of it instead some Flock cameras; just might have to investigate a number of them to find it. /s

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    [–] 6 points 2 months ago

    the leaks are coming from inside the house down the hall in the pr department

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  • [–] 3 points 2 months ago

    This game has been awaited for so long, it's going to be really difficult to live up to the massive hype around it.

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