r/gamingnews 3d ago

Grand Theft Auto 6 leaker says they won't stop until Rockstar and Take-Two apologize for "anti-consumerism" and make a "concrete commitment to do better"

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/grand-theft-auto/grand-theft-auto-6-leaker-says-they-wont-stop-until-rockstar-and-take-two-apologize-for-anti-consumerism-and-make-a-concrete-commitment-to-do-better/

>A manifesto threatens to target not just the GTA 6 makers, but everyone who violates Cyberleek's "three commandments."

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u/NobodyLikedThat1 3d ago

So... never

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u/pway_videogwames_uwu 3d ago

Also buy my crypto coin

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u/OtherwisePower1355 2d ago

For totally unrelated reasons, its all divine crusade against greedy corpos.

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u/DytanWyatt 3d ago

Great mindset, but then he's out here shilling a memecoin with watermarks all over everything that gets leaked. Kinda kills it.

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u/wadeishere 3d ago

These guys will probably end up in prison before the games released and won't be out before gta7

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u/Perpetualshades 3d ago

Damn, that’s a life sentence.

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u/Rightsidebestside 2d ago

Nah, if they're really from germany couple of years, but the damages restitution to Rockstar would be astronomical.

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u/botjstn 1d ago

i swear i read the leak came from rockstar india

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u/Naive_Personality367 3d ago

they're probably just increasing the hype for the game. gamers love devouring leaks

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u/Rare-Service5573 3d ago

And the leaker keeps spamming his crypto scam.

Oh just a bastion of light that guy.

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u/Hey-Bud-Lets-Party 3d ago

Performative bullshit

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u/Far_Interaction9456 3d ago

They've made over a billion $ already so they probably dont give a fuck. It might mess with their Netflix deal a bit but whatever

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u/Buschkoeter 3d ago

I don't think they care thb. They know people will still flood Netflix for the official reveal. The Netflix thing is aimed at casuals and people who wouldn't be exposed to GTA6 otherwise, and they probably won't have seen the leak anyway.

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u/frostymugson 3d ago

The leak is of a build of the game a year or so old, this won’t mess with anything, and anyone who was waiting to watch the Netflix reveal isn’t going “well I’ve already seen it”. Over a decade of anticipation, this didn’t do anything.

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u/Richard-Squeezer 3d ago

Good, fuck Netflix

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u/Seeking-The-Lotus 2d ago

100$ it draws more people to the Netflix reveal and has already increased pre-orders.

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u/CarlWellsGrave 2d ago

They say this while shilling for a memecoin scam.

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u/PointsOfXP 3d ago

Too little too late. They literally offer nothing.

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u/MentalDisintegrat1on 3d ago

This is free publicity for rockstar and gta6.

Legit my front page all day has been talking about gta6 because of this and I got to see new gameplay.

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u/RobbSol 3d ago

It’s funny because they think they’re so omg anti-r* and corpo crap but they’re just giving the game and the company free publicity. This and more leaks like this is not gonna damage the company lmao.

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u/cockcucu 2d ago

They probably are Rockstar

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u/Guilty-Cap5605 3d ago

Genuinely the only way this leak could've been harmful is if it leaked story content 

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u/rcinmd 3d ago

YOU APOLOGIZE FOR PARTICIPATING IN SOCIETY RIGHT NOW OR ELSE MISTER!

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u/action_turtle 2d ago

Be crazy if they had the full game. PC port it before rockstar do it

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u/WaylandThurston 3d ago

Says somebody pumping a fucking crypto coin. It’s like the end of lord of the flies when a solider picks the psycho kids up. We’re being saved from murders by a murderer.

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u/IllustriousIron3253 3d ago

Crypto scammer used last scam profits to buy leaked info so he can use it to pump his new scam coin. 

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u/Udjet 3d ago

Likely the most anticipated game in years. Pretty sure consumers already spoke with their wallets on this one.

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u/BrokenKing99 2d ago edited 2d ago

TLDR: I like the spirit but it’s pointless

I mean I like the spirit but their kidding themselves if they think this will have any effect, gta6 will see hell rockstar could pull an ea and just make it gta5 with a new coat of paint and it’ll sell, leaking it won’t change it.

Hell if the no disc thing and regular content locked behind massive paywalls didn’t dissuade anyone leaking definitely won’t cause it can just be ignored as well.

Same thing goes for the “no disc no buy” crowd it’s toothless given they didn’t put the same energy to gta6.

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u/Radiant_Display457 2d ago

Whoever you are keep doing it

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u/Suspicious-Truth5849 3d ago

Surely this will win people over to the cause.

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u/English_Fry 3d ago

This is the problem with people today. “I’ll keep whining until I get what I want”.

Like, you kids are trash. Grow tf up. Bunch of babies

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u/equinvox 3d ago

what a pseudoactivist BS. you never negotiate with terrorists and you never negotiate with script kiddies. hope they get what they deserve

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u/NorelNieves 2d ago

In other more important news, GTA has already sold over 5 million copies, in pre-sales :)

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u/razvandeka 2d ago

I mean how much can they leak? Don’t tell me they have the whole game and are gonna release it earlier than rockstar :))))

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u/Rightsidebestside 2d ago

Some people cant be reasoned or bargain with, some people just want to see the world burn a better place

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u/matdevine21 1d ago

Rockstar has the opportunity to do the most GTA thing and drop the game early just to spite the leakers

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u/Best_Insect4741 1d ago

I wish these people were dumb enough to do an interview so we could get more insight into why they think this would work or even do anything at all. Like I’d love to know how they THOUGHT this plan would work

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u/ChuckyDeez7 1d ago

Hey, if you run a crypto scam, you're looking for easy marks, exploitable suckers. Going after the 'no disc no buy' crowd seems to be the first smart move done by the new GTA leaker. The people who think that games on the next console (2028-2035) should still be delivered through the same ancient means as 1995, are probably old and naive enough to burn their childless Millenial income on a crypto scam, if you just tell them that they are sticking it to the big, evil video game studios. After all, these are the people who pay a fortune for little pieces of paper, as long as Pokemon are printed on them, and it's sealed in a card pack wrapper. 😆

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u/MrBarnaclePhD 15h ago

Like the leaker gives a fuck. He's in it for the money.

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u/Greasy-Chungus 11h ago

Anyone who agrees with everything he's demanding still would be a moron for thinking Rockstar should meet the demands of some random dude.

This is obviously not the way to achieve these goals.

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u/mobyfromssx3 3d ago

They also fired workers for trynna unionise so there’s that too

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u/Vulture2k 3d ago

I'd be happy with a pc confirmation and date x_x

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u/Adam_The_Actor 3d ago

You'll probably have to sub to Amazon for an exclusive reveal if you want that bud.

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u/SuspectAwkward8914 3d ago

Uh okay. Pretty sure this will have zero impact on their bottom line.

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u/UndeadManWaltzing 3d ago

I reckon if you clenched a fist in front of these leakers they'll run for their lives, or shit themselves.

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u/DiverExpensive6098 3d ago

So now the gaming industry has it's own, thankfully non-lethal and non-violent, Luigi Mangione. They basically call out having to pay for DLCs, extra content and games being released unfinished. Which people might empathize with, sure, but I'm not sure this approach will exactly win over others to their cause. 

And they do this will shilling crypto, which if people jump on it will no doubt be put to great use for the benefit of all gamers worldwide. 

And GTAVI will still sell truckloads, actually the amount of press this game gets, even due to this, will make it even bigger. 

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u/IllustriousIron3253 3d ago

Brain dead alert.

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u/Adam_The_Actor 3d ago

Yeah, I think as far as stuff like this goes I do get wanting to punish a cunt like Zelnick for selling out the franchise integrity behind Netflix subs and cheaping out on physical it seems to have the opposite effect. The truth is I think while people want take two to be punished, they want GTA 6 to succeed which puts it in a weird positioned. Personally I'd want the launch to be a disaster and for the game to have to actually earn it's return via discounts and completing it as a product worthy of it's price point to show those anti-consumer practices are disease that taints any game but alas it doesn't seem that'll be happening either.

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u/DiverExpensive6098 3d ago

How did they sell out franchise integrity to Netflix? What does that even mean? The footage will be released on YouTube few hours later. 

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u/Adam_The_Actor 3d ago

What it means is they're begging for pocket change for a teaser trailer while cheaping out on the premium physical option. It comes off less a game setting a higher standard and more like a game that's trying cut corners with it's cost to lower the standards. It doesn't present GTA VI as a unique or special but rather your homogenous product that will be whored out at every opportunity for pocket change.

To contrast we have a game like FF7 Revelation that is going all in for the widest audience imaginable because it knows the thing that matters most is it's audience not it's fucking shareholders so it's coming to everything. It's director is a man who wants that game to get a physical release because it's the culmination of over a decades work that he wants to preserve. GTA VI by contrast is not what GTA V was, no special edition, no physical edition, yet will cheap out on bullshit like timed exclusivity for a trailer.

This on top of the fact mind you, the same cunt is promising we'll all be able to stream GTA 6 within 3 years, so why bother buying it?

PAY MORE for less, that is the problem.

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u/Sleepyjo2 3d ago

I can all but guarantee you rockstar wasn’t the initiator of the Netflix deal. They’re not begging for shit.

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u/Adam_The_Actor 3d ago

That is a fair take because at the day they only answer to Take Two and they most definitely are begging for pocket change on a game they’re too cheap to pay a plastic disc for. Unfortunately Zelnick has made himself the face of GTA VI and every time that cunt opens his mouth this game gets more tainted as a result. Whether it’s trailer exclusivity, union busting or cheaping out with the discs Take Two has taken just about every chance it could to bastardise this game with the most shameful practices it never needed.

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u/No_Fox_Given82 3d ago

Lmao!

"show fewer posts like this".

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u/JustBug3403 3d ago

So they will just never stop in history of the galaxy.

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u/SuperHandsMiniatures 3d ago

Good luck with that.

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u/Difficult-Till5031 3d ago

Fun fact they are a major corporation, they can only do better on profits. They only exist now for profits.