I don't play multiplayer games, but GTA single player are some of my favorite games. As long as there is a good single player campaign in GTA VI I'll buy it pretty much immediately when it's available for PC, as I'm sure plenty of others will as well. I doubt this leak will affect the sales, although I can understand why the developers would prefer to not have their half finished work leaked like that.<p>According to the thread on gtaforums it was allegedly the same hacker that recently hacked Uber. Will be interesting to read more about this when there's more info out, I assume they have something in common and that more companies are vulnerable.
If I were one of the internal tools programmers, I wouldn't be "extremely disappointed" by this leak...<p>I'm seriously impressed by the quality of the internal tooling. All that effort only to be seen and used internally. And yet they still polish the UI!<p>Most of the internal tools where I work look terrible, unless they're web based where some framework can do the hand holding.
I'm a completely casual game in the sense that: basically the only games I've ever really played and enjoyed that much are GTA and Skyrim. I have an Xbox and a gaming PC, because people talk about video games as if they're really fun, but I have just never actually been able to materialize that for myself.<p>I figured the next GTA was <i>never</i> coming out, and that they would just keep milking the current one until the end of time.<p>This leak showed that not only are they working on it, but it looks really cool.<p>I have a tough time seeing how anybody would see this leak as a negative. The game looks great.
Any press is good press — I'm not a gamer but can someone explain all the negativity? I assume it wasn't a surprise that another version is in the making.
Most of the videos are still available on the hacker's twitter: <a href="https://twitter.com/Jinxintel" rel="nofollow">https://twitter.com/Jinxintel</a><p>It seems he's outside of the US if asking for some type of monetary reward / bribe. Either way it appears Rockstar is taking this (rightly) extremely seriously, and hopefully it won't delay the game much more, as they are one of the few remaining major development shops that don't bend their game's quality to market timelines.
I feel for the engineers and artists at Rockstar right now..<p>I don't think people realize how devastating this can be to them. Imagine you are working really hard on a creative project, coming up with different designs, prototypes, and solutions but then all of it gets leaked to the public without your consent.<p>After this leak, _all_ the mystery is gone.. we underestimate the rush of dopamine designers get from the validation of unveiling something beautiful and perfect to the public. Short of completely reworking major parts of this project, all they can do now is to improve the existing assets and build upon it.<p>Further, the executives might put more pressure on the teams since people are expecting a release, marketing has to crank up unexpectedly, PR needs to shift gear, security has to be tightened and so on. This is not a fun situation for anyone.<p>I hope the person responsible for this gets prosecuted to the fullest extent of the law.
I think this is overhyped as damaging and negative. In fact, GTA VI seemed to be on the path to becoming the “new Duke Nukem Forever,” which is no longer the case. Everything I’ve seen from the leak indicates this will be a really great game with the same cinematic qualities and cultural relevance that remains somewhat unique to this franchise.<p>It’s not great from a creative standpoint to have parts of your narrative out there for inspection and criticism, true, but from a commercial perspective the timing of this leak (weekend of Tokyo Game Show) could not be better. More people are talking about <i>this</i> than whatever announcements took place at TGS.
> "We are extremely disappointed to have any details of our next game shared with you in this way."<p>Granted, it could happen to anyone, but this is the kind of messaging I would expect if someone had accidentally emailed screenshots to IGN, not as the result of a breach.
I am not a huge fps gamer, but every time a new GTA comes out I tend to buy a new console. I am worried this time that there might be shortages when GTA6 comes out, and as such will already order one for xmas as a preemptive measure. As for this hack, I have mixed feelings. On the one hand I am thrilled to see some gameplay, on the other I also respect Rockstar enough to not look at it. Still doubting.
Great that there is some information about the game now. They are extremely bad at generating excitement despite the huge amounts of money they make from these and the loyal fan base.
Only thing I was bummed about was it looks like the have the same punch animation they have been using forever... But otherwise it looked like a pretty decent game in progress.
Social engineering attacks are destructive not just because of the data that is compromised but also because it makes us paranoid of interacting with others and forces us to adopt increasingly anti-social practices.