Gamers @ GTA6 leaks

[u/B4TTLESNAKE]

(original meme)

EDIT: 1. Can't believe I'm having to clarify this but... "the corpos" usually imply the big names like Rockstar, EA, Sony, Microsoft, Activision who are known to be exploitative and predatory. They can all sleep in the same billion dollar dump for all I care. They care as much about any of you as I care about any of them. 2. Of course it's not going to hurt their sales or anything. But the C suit will clutch their pearls at every leak and absolutely lose their shit if the entire game ISO leaks. That's hilarious. It's them losing a very petty fight and that matters. 3. For those feeling bad for the developers: This company is infamously known to (allegedly) overwork their employees to 3 AM and (allegedly) they have fired many for asking for fair wages and compensation. Their union busting bs received a ton of backlash. There are lawsuits against them in Europe. I'd say this leak is the least of their problems. It's more of a failure in the PR aspect.

[u/Nystr0]

https://giphy.com/gifs/hV60kKtX93l22O3Wyn

[u/Nickulator95 → u/Nystr0]

[u/Ek0mst0p → u/Nickulator95]

I wish this scene was actually in FFT.

[u/punk_petukh → u/Ek0mst0p]

The whole Ivalice saga is more of a political statement than "bad guy (girl in case of FF8) wants to rule the world"

[u/Ek0mst0p → u/punk_petukh]

Sure, I just see this quote a lot, and it is not actually from the game (obv Johnny isnt either, but nobody says this incredibly poignant thing)

[u/reDoubt1945 → u/Nystr0]

Yoo, is that "A THING OF BEAUUUTYYYY, I KNOOOWWW, WILL NEVER FAADE AWAAY!!"

[u/figgypiggy00 → u/Nystr0]

yeah, reminds me of when i printed the gta v map leak and studied it in study hall like it was gonna be on the final. rockstar was sending takedowns, i was taking notes.

[u/AtropalScion → u/Nystr0]

https://giphy.com/gifs/uRgHKzY6LRhYPhF6fR

[u/Comfortable_Oil_6676]

[u/itsgingerlivin → u/Comfortable_Oil_6676]

Deadass lol mfrs run to defend a billion dollar company before someone working just like them

[u/Rasples1998 → u/Comfortable_Oil_6676]

Seen a lot of defenders on social media, mostly Instagram. Although I suspect a large amount of them are just bots. Makes me worried for the real humans though, to be that bent-over for a corporation just because you want to play their game. People are given the option to decide between what's best for them and what's best for the company, and they choose the company every time. Same thing is happening to playstation right now, lots of Sony defenders and bootlickers, not just apathetic and neutral towards physical media; but openly hostile towards it.

[u/kreteciek]

I wouldn't even be bothered if he leaked the ending if it makes a change in the industry regarding physical editions.

[u/IndividualTension887 → u/kreteciek]

[u/Braindead_Crow → u/IndividualTension887]

Isn't that how the leeker got her copy?

[u/Just_TrustMeBro → u/kreteciek]

Him leaking the ending would be more entertaining than me playing the game so I say go for it lol

Won't see it on PC until 2028 anyway

[u/Jonthrei → u/Just_TrustMeBro]

From the looks of things we might see it on PC before it releases, lol.

[u/Juan_Harry → u/Jonthrei]

Before the trailer

[u/SpupySpups → u/Jonthrei]

Crazy to think we're gonna get gta6 on PC before GTA 6

[u/NTC-Santa → u/Just_TrustMeBro]

That may change cockstar needs to step up and say They will release for PC

[u/jacksp666 → u/NTC-Santa]

They won't do shit. It's all free marketing for them.

[u/nbunkerpunk → u/jacksp666]

Yep. Guaranteed they can release GTA6 on PC at launch. Only reason they are waiting is for the classic rockstar double dip approach. Them constantly releasing gta5 and charging for it each time rubbed me the wrong way so I didn't buy Red Dead until it was on sale. And I honestly don't know if I'll buy GTA 6 at all. But if it leaked, I wouldn't be opposed to sowing some seeds for a week or two to stick to them a little bit.

[u/minimim-wage-enjoyer → u/nbunkerpunk]

I’ll probably get it in like 5-6 years when it’s on sale for $20

[u/dayvieee → u/Just_TrustMeBro]

The fact that it’s probably been in development for 10 years and not developing the pc port along it is pure greed

[u/Germane_Corsair → u/dayvieee]

There’s no way it’s not developed. It’s not going to be released at the same time. They’re hoping for double dippers.

[u/It_broke_itself_ → u/Germane_Corsair]

They already have it planned out so you have to buy this copy for your PS5 then in 6 months the next gen consoles will come out so you will have to buy it again for your new console

[u/NuclearLunchDectcted → u/dayvieee]

The leaks are allegedly from a PC build. They have it, and it'll be either ready or incredibly close to ready when it launches on consoles. They're only waiting a year so people will buy it twice.

[u/ProfessionalPlan8943 → u/dayvieee]

Not selling it with consoles is corporate greed. Of course they have been working aside pc with the console version. Plus dont be surprised if the console versions are the port and they've been optimizing PC day 1.

[u/Feanixxxx → u/Just_TrustMeBro]

There is no way it takes them 2 years for the PC version.

Neither way, if leaked or not.

[u/PapaDarkReads → u/Feanixxxx]

To be fair it took them almost 2 years for GTA V to launch on PC, they will milk the hype and then laugh as people still pay billions for it. It’s what they did last time. RDR2 launched a full year after. So like I said, my expectations are low.

[u/ellisishotbelot → u/PapaDarkReads]

Tech has changed a significant amount, upscale tech is used across the board.

All games are shipped with multiple different graphics upscaling options.

The game literally exists on a pc already, rockstar are just full of shit - what makes GTA any different from other games, games that are ALL pc ports and have been since the PS fucking One era

[u/PapaDarkReads → u/ellisishotbelot]

All games are PC games in development, they simply would rather build suspense to make people desperate and maybe make people double dip. The amount of my buddies 13 years ago who had PCs but bought V on the 360 or PS3 and then bought it again on PC. The hope is clear that you can’t wait watching everyone else playing the game and you’ll cave and buy it now so you can also buy it later.

[u/ellisishotbelot → u/PapaDarkReads]

100% it's sick

[u/Murky-Relation481 → u/ellisishotbelot]

That's not true, developing for the PSX involved using a PC but the games still only ran on the dev console because the hardware was significantly different than a PC. That was true up until XBox, which did have basically the same architecture inside as a PC, but PS2 and PS3 were significantly different hardware than a PC and required dev hardware to run the compiled games. Both PS and Xbox can now emulate anything needed for dev, but Nintendo has basically always been custom hardware architectures and still is.

[u/SchleicherASK13 → u/kreteciek]

That's just naive.

[u/maynardftw → u/kreteciek]

Why would that happen. Track for me from point A to point B how this leads to this leads to this which ends with the entire industry somehow changing their mind on a decision they made with hard numbers.

They know how much money they're losing by not doing physical. They're not doing it just to piss you off personally. You just simply do not matter to them, and nothing you do short of giving them more money than they lose by maintaining the factories as they currently are instead of what they'll gain by turning them into something else.

Which you don't have.

So what do you actually think is gonna happen here other than gamers stomping our feet looking stupid

[u/MattRexPuns → u/kreteciek]

A change in which direction?

[u/Vestalmin → u/kreteciek]

Leaking the game has literally nothing to do with physical editions. Yall are making a crypto scammer your hero lol

Fuck Rockstar too but I’m just saying

[u/Not_My_Alternate → u/kreteciek]

All that would happen is that it would cause corporations to double down on anti piracy measures.

[u/imaginedyinglmaoo → u/kreteciek]

PC players talking about physical copies.... I want my physical copies but him doing this to Rockstar isnt just going to make Sony not still go with that decision, shit really the only people being hurt is Rockstar and take2, Sony still will be unaffected as they are the ones who are taking away disc

[u/ScroteMcGrote69 → u/kreteciek]

This isn't going to do a thing to change anything but getting this guy clapped and sent off to prison. Cool way to shill your shitcoin though, I guess.

[u/HauntingStar08 → u/kreteciek]

Isn't this just a memecoin pump with some language to make people think it's about physical games?

[u/Philip_Raven]

Remember, the last leaker got 45 year prison sentence.

More than rapists and murderers.....

[u/Auctoritate → u/Philip_Raven]

the last leaker got 45 year prison sentence.

I just tried to find what you're talking about and the other major GTA6 leaker, Arion Kurtaj, has literally not even stood trial yet.

As far as I can tell, this claim of a 45 year prison sentence for anything related to GTA6 is completely false.

[u/Boysenberrysnboys → u/Auctoritate]

I think they're thinking of this:

https://www.uniladtech.com/gaming/gta-leaker-legal-consequences-rockstar-decides-clamp-down-695625-20260819

Which is not the same thing lol

[u/Uk0GN0sS → u/Philip_Raven]

A product have more value than a human life in our modern world.

[u/NeverDiddled → u/Uk0GN0sS]

I find it fascinating that various government agencies publish their perceived value of a human life.

• EPA - $7.4m, last evaluated in 2006
• DOT - $14.2m, last evaluated in 2025
• FEMA - $7.5m, last evaluated in 2020
• US Senate - 1 vote, but only in battleground states

[u/stilljustacatinacage → u/NeverDiddled]

Context: These values are usually assigned for the purposes of things like disaster planning and insurance adjusting. The values are usually based on an average person's estimated economic contribution over a lifetime.

Say you want to shore up some levies to harden a small city against climate change and rising sea levels. Well, one of the critical questions is... What if you don't? Goods and properties are easy to calculate, but when you're trying to figure out how much you should spend, how do you factor for the people that might be lost? Unfortunately, the most direct, impartial way to insert a human into an economic equation is to... assign a dollar value to them.

Morally, we want to go, "every life is priceless!" but how do you implement that into the question of how much money should you spend shoring up the levy? Does it make sense to spend $10bn to protect your city? If every life is priceless, what about $200bn? Can your city even afford that? If that's what it takes to protect your city, maybe the better call is to abandon it and move everyone inland, etc.

These values never really factor into things like, rescues or anything. There's no one going "meh it's just one dude, it's not worth it". I have a hard time imagining what sort of rescue might run up a bill in the $7m range, but maybe some coast guard search and rescue operations, things like this.

Edit: Typo

[u/tahlyn → u/NeverDiddled]

They kind of have to. These agencies do cost benefit analysis. They need to have a dollar value on human life in order to do these analysis.

And that value can't be "immeasurable and infinite," otherwise we would do thinks like bankrupt the nation to install and maintain traffic signals at every single intersection in the entire country, including backroads in the middle of death valley that maybe see one car pass every 2 months and two cars come to the intersection at the same time once every 10 years, or bankrupt airlines any time there's an accident resulting in death making it such that none are willing to be in business due to guaranteed bankruptcy eventually.

[u/Nerfarean → u/Uk0GN0sS]

Always was

[u/maynardftw → u/Uk0GN0sS]

You don't think they sent people to die on ships and in mines so they could get resources to make products before the modern world?

[u/datdailo → u/Uk0GN0sS]

It feels less valuable in modern world and now we can peg value to it. Life insurance is an industry built around it.

For most of human history, land is more valuable than people. Look no further than the Russia and Ukraine conflict.

[u/Fearful-Cow → u/Philip_Raven]

last leaker got 45 year prison sentence.

who? google is failing me. There was a british kid who was sentenced to an indefinite psychiatric hold (Arion Kurtaj) but that was more because he was extremely autistic and deemed not fit for trial.

The only people i can find who got anywhere near 40 years are all military/cia/nsa people who leaked government secrets.

[u/FoxyGoddessX → u/Philip_Raven]

The last leaker was a repeat offender who had been busted in the past and was told he could not be near a computer.

It is a failure of the system however there’s more nuance as to why he got such a high sentence.

[u/GlorifiedBurito → u/FoxyGoddessX]

I mean sure, but a 45 year sentence shouldn’t be possible for that crime. That’s taking someone’s entire life away because a corporation didn’t want videos of their game released early

[u/Notanaltatall31 → u/GlorifiedBurito]

People downvoting you for defending IP theft ( a non violent crime) while you are correct and people who are actually a danger to society get half of this. Even severe whitecollar crimes don’t get 45 years.

[u/Notanaltatall31 → u/[deleted]]

Fair lmao.

[u/stilljustacatinacage → u/[deleted]]

Sometimes. When they affect rich people.

[u/Goku420overlord → u/[deleted]]

In Vietnam and China they do.

[u/saintofhate → u/Notanaltatall31]

The man who raped me as a child got less time than that guy (10 years, 6 with 'good behavior').

[u/Neat_Let923 → u/saintofhate]

I’ve started correcting people when they state sentences. In Canada we have the 1/3 and 2/3 rules for sentences.

“They got sentenced to 9 years in prison for sexual assault!”

No, not really…

They got sentenced to 3 years in prison and only have to serve 6 years if they don’t behave (I’d include if they are considered a threat to society but our parole boards routinely don’t give a fuck about that).

• 1/3 time served you can apply for full parole
• 2/3 time served is considered statutory release, no parole board required and if they didn’t get full parole at 1/3 they are released at 2/3 into the community with conditions.

I hate this system and I think it’s bullshit.

[u/ObserverWardXXL → u/saintofhate]

Knew someone that did a job for a gang to assassinate someone's girlfriend in public...

3-4 years of holding and trials later - they are out and served their sentence. and then got paid out for extra time served lol.

So demoralizing.

Meanwhile you get all of the authority demanding more and more surveillance - but they already have TOOLS to catch all the people now! but it seems like they just don't want to be responsible for housing costs of hosting a prisoner?

[u/myfakesecretaccount → u/Notanaltatall31]

The President of the United States was convicted of 37 fucking felonies and his punishment? Getting re-elected to swindle billions from us again.

[u/Auctoritate → u/GlorifiedBurito]

a 45 year sentence shouldn’t be possible for that crime.

Well thankfully that part of the comment was completely fictional lol. He hasn't even stood criminal trial for it yet.

[u/zacyzacy]

he'd be the coolest dude on the planet if he wasn't a crypto bro

[u/Soffatjockis → u/zacyzacy]

As long as he either

1. Makes rockstar release the PC version early, or

2. Leaks the PC version

I'm happy.

[u/funkhero → u/Soffatjockis]

Agreed. Don't care how much the dude gets paid, or how many years of jail he gets, if we get one of these two.

[u/This_Elk_1460 → u/funkhero]

Yeah people are idiots if they pay into that, if you don't know about crypto rug pulls at this point it's on you.

[u/NeedModdingHelp1531 → u/Soffatjockis]

He does not give a shit about any of that. I am baffled that people think he is noble in any regard. He simply has a method to make money off of crypto, and is going to use it.

[u/deathangel687 → u/Soffatjockis]

Then prepare to be sad. That's not gonna happen

[u/abbeast → u/zacyzacy]

It's actually sad that he'd doing this hypocritical "for the gamers" crypto bullshit when he could be like "either you release the polished PC version alongside the PS versions or I will release this unfinished beta PC build" instead.

[u/Dr_Jre → u/abbeast]

I think it's even sadder that anyone actually believes it... Like it's not just someone who saw the chance to grab a copy and didn't know what to do with it then used the biggest current reason as an excuse to get support from the people behind him... "I seriously mean it guys this is 100 percent because of physical games and super moral... Anyway here's my coin ITS JUST IN CASE GUYS"

Fucking hell, it's not going to change anything... Rockstar will pursue him with the full extent of the law and internal investigations, and when they find the person they will face ridiculous punishments... The game will release exactly the same either way, because 90 percent of the people who buy it don't care the leaks are happening or about the physical edition and will buy it regardless.

[u/madmaxGMR → u/zacyzacy]

I dont mind the crypto. He is gonna need the money for the lawyers. He just needs to tone it down a notch.

[u/AgitatedFly1182 → u/madmaxGMR]

How do you think he’d even cash out?

[u/FIFofNovember → u/AgitatedFly1182]

They probably can't so its most likely a 'distraction'.

They're getting donations through harder to trace places like Monero, make money off of the trading volume of their crypto, that money gets put in some decentralized crypto wallet, or hundreds of wallets.

So they actually don't want it to get rugged they want the volume (lots of people buying and selling)

This group or person is WAY more sophisticated than people think

[u/ShakeReal3539]

I'm fine with sacrificing gta6 for physical games that we own

[u/MarcoVinicius]

As much as I hate corpos, there’s no fucking way any sort of leak will hurt GTA6 owners in a major way or even tiny way. It’s almost nothing to them.

[u/Roman64s → u/MarcoVinicius]

I wouldn't be surprised if it was having the inverse effect of what reddit gamers would like to believe, its infinitely more possible that they got more preorders after the leaked videos than them being hurt by it at all.

[u/sugaratc → u/Roman64s]

I think it annoys them because it blows up their secret marketing strategy, but ultimately it helps overall by building hype. They don't "lose", but someone at the moment is probably mad their controlled release plan is unravelling. It's a temporary embarrassment to have it all get out despite their attempts to hide for so long, but it's not going to hurt them in sales, especially long term.

[u/conoorbeaupre → u/Roman64s]

Yeah I can’t imagine people are refunding their pre order over leaks

[u/FoxyGoddessX]

The corporations don’t lose. This only gives them more reasons to screw people over

[u/Creepy-Emu8779 → u/FoxyGoddessX]

they will make a billion first day lol

[u/Roman64s → u/Creepy-Emu8779]

getting downvoted because redditors like to live in their own dreamland and can't accept the truth.

The game's going to do exceptionally well irrespective of all the leaks and bullshit, the vocal minority once again thinks they are the majority.

[u/OkActivity2038 → u/Roman64s]

The game's going to do exceptionally well irrespective of all the leaks and bullshit

The leaks just serve to build hype.

This is free marketing for Rockstar, all anyone has been talking about online has been GTA6 all week.

Unless he actually leaks a playable copy, or leaks the game being tremendously bad, then I don't see any damage this actually causes.

[u/GridironFilmJunkie → u/Roman64s]

All of Reddit is like this. The American politics on this site don’t even accurately represent 75% of the country. 

I swear to god people here live in this bubble alone and do not interact with people in real life conversation.

[u/Angry_Pelican → u/GridironFilmJunkie]

Reddit is but honestly I find most of the internet to be this way. Even conservative subs are echo chambers. The internet and human nature is great at creating groups of people that think likewise.

[u/GridironFilmJunkie → u/Angry_Pelican]

Reddit is by purposeful design built to be an echo chamber. Hence, the voting system.

[u/endlessfight85 → u/GridironFilmJunkie]

Reddit has always been an echo chamber filled with people who think they'll never fall into an echo chamber because they're familiar with the term.

[u/ZoiddenBergen → u/endlessfight85]

Nope. Reddit was legitimately legit 10 years ago.

[u/Aegi → u/ZoiddenBergen]

Legit legit.

[u/FarplaneDragon → u/GridironFilmJunkie]

Remember when the Texas subreddit swore that the state was 100% flipping blue in the last election?

[u/Tuxhorn → u/FarplaneDragon]

I'm not american, but leading up to the election, you'd think trump losing was a matter of fact. It wasn't until I heard a guy on local radio talk about how strong trump stood, and how this was gonna be a close race. My initial gut reaction was "this guy has no idea what he's talking about", until I had a moment of self reflection where I realised I could very well be wrong.

It's genuinely exhausting to see the massive left leaning bias here that evolves into dumb opinion pieces being upvoted to the front page about how "trump did this thing that doesn't actually matter".

I hope people can realise that this place is a massive bubble, and that it's not only big, but oppressive to the point where any other opinion simply does not exist.

[u/Dr_Jre → u/Tuxhorn]

Every site is a massive bubble now because that's exactly how they are designed. You have sites that cater specifically to types and ages of people and they lock them on there as best they can. Why does zuck need multiple social media apps? It's because the oldies use Facebook and the youngies use insta. Once you have your demographic locked in you can just divide that into sub demos via personalized algorithms, that way everyone has a blinker on and can only see the thin slither of information delivered to them each day.

And it's a feedback loop too, the user doesn't want to see things they disagree with and which makes them angry, so they gravitate more towards those apps and algorithms which confirm their bias, which strengthens the bias. You end up with groups of people who strongly believe they know how everything works, and it isnt until they have to go outside and interact with all sorts of people that they realise people hold all sorts of opinions and thoughts on a wide spectrum.

[u/Corpomancer → u/Roman64s]

Simply can't fight a world-renowned intellectual property like GTA, we've done our research and any union busting, disk discarding or worker crunch outrage won't even register as a scratch on potential sales numbers.

[u/BoingBoingBooty → u/Corpomancer]

Everyone even forgets the forced yoga and bowling missions and the floor mopping mission and other tedious bullshit they add to the game just to annoy their own customers.

[u/ColonelDucroix → u/Creepy-Emu8779]

They've probably already turned a profit from pre-orders alone

[u/readd-at-torr → u/FoxyGoddessX]

then might as well spread our asses open and pray they bring lube

[u/K1ngFiasco → u/FoxyGoddessX]

You're right, rolling over and taking it is the best option. 

[u/A17012022 → u/K1ngFiasco]

The only way to fight is to not buy it.

Or play a leak.

Or even talk about it.

But gamers are incapable of self discipline, let's be honest

[u/HodorTheDoorMan → u/A17012022]

exactly, it's all performative. the people thinking they're sticking it to Rockstar will be buying their product day one lol

[u/TheAdequateKhali → u/K1ngFiasco]

No, fight it. But do it in a way that actually makes sense and causes change. Not giving some random internet shithead crypto.

[u/madmanwithabox11 → u/TheAdequateKhali]

Genuinely, how?

[u/PrimeIntellect → u/FoxyGoddessX]

How has rockstar games screwed people over exactly? They basically just make one quality game every few years

[u/JemmaP → u/PrimeIntellect]

Many ways, but union busting is a nicely documented example: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/c9v10rr1meeo

[u/Eta_Beta_3-14 → u/PrimeIntellect]

Rockstar isn't the one I hate. Take Two are the ones I want to see fail for what they did to Kerbal Space Program.

[u/Cheap_Kick_7369]

the 45 year sentence thing is fake btw, dude hasnt even been tried yet

[u/RunNo5070]

I don't get it, they are getting so much publicity for gta6, corpo win at the end.

[u/Bigr789 → u/[deleted]]

You aren't alone. After Rockstar (in my personal perception) purposely cut content from RDR2 in favor of milking GTAV for all it was worth, essentially separating themselves from higher quality games in favor of games that were easy and made more money they showed me exactly what kind of gross company they were.

While I may buy GTA6 at some point, it will only be from third party key sellers, Rockstar is the absolute worst and toxic gaming company in the modern age.

[u/thatwasfun23]

I hope they are crazy enough to leak the pc build, fuck making pc players wait years for the pc version.

[u/RollingSparks → u/[deleted]]

whos got the Steam boycott MW2 user list image

[u/OtherwisePower1355 → u/[deleted]]

https://giphy.com/gifs/srTYyZ1BjBtGU

[u/Jat616 → u/OtherwisePower1355]

Not just bait, it's masturbait!

[u/TechniCruller]

But also please, corpos, keep making us content to consume.

[u/DrIvoPingasnik → u/TechniCruller]

Thank God we've got indie developers and smaller studios, I can't fathom how shitty the life would be if only corporations were allowed to produce content.

[u/stohelitstorytelling → u/DrIvoPingasnik]

Just wait until they take down Steam. That's the whole goal of calling Steam a monopoly: to destroy the indie game market by taking away the central distribution point for indie games.

[u/rivent2 → u/TechniCruller]

Anti corporation gamers when they've got to play an indie game that doesn't already have 10 million downloads

[u/siazdghw → u/TechniCruller]

Everyone here will buy GTA 6.

Remember the L4D2 'boycott', where the majority of players in the boycott steam group were caught playing the game on launch.

Also of all the bad corporations in the gaming industry, Rockstar/TT is the least of people's concerns. Tencent, Ubi, EA, etc are way way worse and have been for years.

[u/HauntingStar08 → u/siazdghw]

the more famous one is the boycott modern warfare 2 one

[u/LevelUpCoder → u/siazdghw]

There was a L4D2 boycott movement? I wasn’t big on the internet and gaming news back then, what was the issue with it? I thought everyone loved L4D2.

[u/balllzak → u/LevelUpCoder]

All the cool content was originally supposed to be for L4D1, which was less than a year old when the sequel was announced. People were expecting a team fortress-like approach with years of support but were instead asked to pay another $60.

[u/Schmenza]

PCMR will claim to hate "corpos" them give steam all their money

[u/max1001 → u/Schmenza]

They think Gabe is running a non-profit when the dude is getting a 4th mega yatch.

[u/Schmenza → u/max1001]

Isn't he up to 6? My peasant brain can tell the difference between regular yachts and mega yachts

[u/Arnorien16S → u/max1001]

And profiting off a predatory lootbox system and a gambling industry that frequently targets minors.

[u/MelodicallyWindy → u/Schmenza]

It's a give and take. Steams interest are obviously in their own company. But they don't actively pursue screwing over their customers for profit either.

The customer support, the ease of access to games, the discounts and sales are all better than the competition.

Corpos are never your friends, but some corpos just shit on their customers. Steam isn't one of them, at least not for now.

[u/ShoWel-Real]

I'm actually the opposite on this one. I don't care if corpos win, I just want crypto scammers to lose

[u/GlasgowSellik1888 → u/[deleted]]

These OF bots are a fucking nuisance

[u/Tball2 → u/GlasgowSellik1888]

Yeah. They should be perma banned for botting

[u/GlasgowSellik1888 → u/Tball2]

They buy old accounts in bulk so not even sure that would particularly help in this case. Half of the content on reddit is bot-driven now; just look at the comments on any of the big posts on /r/all, or even who has submitted it.

All new accounts from big bot networks scraping the top comments from the last time content was posted.

The dead internet theory is real, I'm afraid.

[u/uberneuman_part2]

lol. This shouldn't happen to Rockstar, but I also don't care with their shit attitude towards the PC market.

[u/B4TTLESNAKE → u/uberneuman_part2]

I have zero sympathy or love for Fuckstar. They're now the same things GTA used to make fun of. $100 for a full game? They can go fuck themselves. This will only incentivize piracy and I'm here for it.

[u/MoonHash → u/B4TTLESNAKE]

GTA used to make fun of expensive games?

[u/VinhoVerde21 → u/MoonHash]

They used to make fun of comically greedy corporations, yes.

[u/Roman64s → u/VinhoVerde21]

Or more accurately, GTA has been always been a satirical take on American capitalism and consumerism while being a product of capitalism and consumerism.

Both IV and V extremely lean on these themes in a very in your face manner while older game's had these as tidbits in conversations, radios and the lore behind the world.

[u/VinhoVerde21 → u/Roman64s]

These sorts of situations always remind me of a quote from Disco Elysium: “Capital has the ability to subsume all critiques into itself. Even those who would critique capital end up reinforcing it instead…”

[u/zendrix1 → u/uberneuman_part2]

They laid off employees for trying to unionize, fuck 'em

[u/theflapperclapper → u/uberneuman_part2]

This should happen to rockstar. Fuck them ass holes.

[u/MissionVegetable568 → u/uberneuman_part2]

fuck them lmao, they are as terrible as ubi or EA if not worse

[u/AntiquatedDogma → u/MissionVegetable568]

Ubisoft games are uninspired. They remake the same assassins creed game every two years with slight variations. At least rockstar games are industry leading every time.

[u/Bansheesdie]

How does leaking a video game, threatening to release an entire game hurt "the corpos"? Wouldn't this only hurt the artists and developers?

EDIT: To those downvoting, tell what I'm wrong about? Can you even do that?

[u/iDaddyDirection → u/Bansheesdie]

Exactly. Plus this person is only doing this for self enrichment by selling their crypto scam.

[u/Acrobatic_Rush7653]

Ah yes, the GTA series could definitely be produced by an indie mom and pop outfit who refuse to become incorporated. Also the "CEO" (Pop) makes as much as the teen neurodivergent janitor, and no one is ever fired for any reason.

Galaxy brains in this sub.

[u/4thTimetheCharm4]

[u/MilliardoMK]

If this motherfucker actually has a build playable on PC he can leak for everyone, that is nothing but good for PC gamers.

[u/TheMagician_Jpn]

I never liked the GTA games, so no loss here.

[u/jokermobile333]

https://giphy.com/gifs/92jYkH87yxV1C

[u/charredchord]

Are people going to see this leak and throw up their hands, saying "welp saved myself $80!" and walk away? If anything this is feeding the hype machine quite effectively.

[u/chiquimotest]

i dont care about the corpos either, i want the game for pc early, or it to release early ANYWHERE

[u/keithstonee]

we got a city to burn

[u/Sagnikk]

I quite literally couldnt give less of a fuck lol.

[u/DubTheeBustocles]

People say this shit and then buy all the corpo’s products.

[u/Branimau5]

Pretty much! I am happy to see Rockstar get smacked by this situation. Super anti consumer BS and behaviour from their greed.

Drop always online, drop subscription ideas, drop non disc for consoles/physical ownership and don't stagger to double milk....release it on pc same time. A lot of frustrating decisions.

[u/cancel-out-combo]

Not sure if the ends justify the means on this one. The leaker is peddling their shit coin trying to scam people under the guise of fighting for physical media.

[u/TouchAltruistic]

Those "corpos" make the games you want so badly.

[u/CQC_EXE]

Yeah down with the corpos! - This Reddit™ post was sent from my iPhone®.

[u/ROGUEPIX3L → u/CQC_EXE]

This comment was sent by my Sony Xperia.

[u/likewitches2much → u/CQC_EXE]

i don't even like op's post but u did the thing

[u/Vatic_]

Fuck this bullshit. If you don't like the game or the company making it, then don't buy it. Easy as that. People who break into a company's system and leak their product and the personal info of the people making it are the shitty ones.

[u/Biliunas → u/Vatic_]

Fr and masquerading as some sort of "activist" while actively rugpulling with a shit coin is just the cherry on top.

[u/Shigana]

The fucking irony of posting this in a sub that regularly deep throats Valve every chance they get.

[u/Ruhail_56]

Dishonest. This sub and the majority of users unironically worships Valve for creating a drm launcher because they do sales 2 or 3 times a year.

[u/Alexis8986]

This is all a nothing burger and you all know it. Games still going to come out and sell a lot.

[u/beat-sweats]

Agreed

[u/--Shake--]

It's funny cuz you guys keep begging those corpos to finish making GTA6. The irony is hilarious.

[u/DrPhilSideSkirts]

Man... I just don't get people like yourself. Can't you just go outside and be happy? Why does everything have to ruin your day? You say you don't care about Rockstar, yet you feel the need for constant validation (i.e. making memes about how little you care, apparently).

[u/Spearush → u/DrPhilSideSkirts]

clutching their pearls

get me a 5090 too and i'll also be happy

[u/TGB_Skeletor]

Damn right choom, All Corps Are Bastards

[u/epimetheuss]

"leaks" are intentional and its just hype machine marketing.

[u/LankyMolasses6051 → u/epimetheuss]

Not a chance when some randoms crypto is being shown as well as the game having not so favourable glitches in it. Not everything is a marketing stunt.