From my understanding the likely scenario here is that lower level employees get locked out for awhile while security goes through everything - but that’s essentially paid time off - creatively this is super easy to recover from. The game they reveal will look way better and make tons of money either way. What was truly even revealed here? A guy/girl protagonist, you can rob shops, it’s in vice city? Like I’m struggling to see the actual tragedy
That tragedy from what I gather is the hacker has the source code and if released will be devastating. From a devs point of view based on people I know, it is devestating to them when all the work they have done is released in not in the way you want it released. But I think the biggest fear is the source code and what may happen with that. This shit is just crazy though.
Yeah I mean if that happens that’s way worse but even if he releases the source code, similar to what happened with Half Life 2 - isnt it just like “damn I wanted the public to see it in its full glory and not judge it based off a pre release state”? Cus I get that sucks but it’s really not the end of the world at all for a game like GTA6
There are videos from 5 days a ago, lol. Before the gtaforums thread got nuked they were dating driver updates from just months ago as well. Those 90 videos are devs Slack vids to each other from the last two years, regarding numerous builds. Not disputing it's unfinished nature, but some of this footage is VERY current.
Because it IS in development, any in progress internal build will look and run like shit, i've played plenty of stuff that leaked, especially when it comes to console, if its not close, it will be running with low res textures and poor lightning, only when it comes to public demonstrations is that they take what has been mostly finished to be shown.
The lack of respect they showed to 3 of the most popular games of all time, and their own history and legacy, well it turned my stomache a bit.
For a company as giant as Take Two who likes to milk their big time franchises with either an annual release (NBA 2k) or have giant gaps in releases where they relaunch games over again (GTA) or ride the sales for eons, you'd think they'd put in some effort to make the trilogy a quality game they can milk for 10 years.
Well i suppose it gives them a reason to remaster/remake them again in another 5 years.
Now you're thinking! If you want a job at T2, apply now.Well i suppose it gives them a reason to remaster/remake them again in another 5 years.
If by real name they mean first and last then that’s not really useful as Gulf family naming, you’ll probably find 10 of his relatives with the same name and probably hundreds in his tribe with that name. A middle name can narrow things down a little but it still needs to be accompanied by something more useful.
People have their own reasons for doing this, we know about these threats when we connect everything to the internet, work remotely etc. git, collaboration, data is absolutely everywhere. Security of this data needs to be taken more seriously obviously over at Rockstar. It’s a bad day for them and I’m not happy to see this, but at the same time I’m not going to necessarily have any sympathy for a multi billion dollar conglomerate.
Exactly, Rockstar have been seeing what they can get away with.
Yep, they’ll be insured to the gills for this type of thing but it’s highly embarrassing and reputation wise does them no favours.
I wouldn't assume that, even for a second.
It's not. That video in particular is from July 2021.
Why shouldn't you have any sympathy for a multi-billion dollar conglomerate?
this entire chain of events would be a brilliant idea for a movie if executed right. a hacker hacking into a big corporation's confidential dev files... hackers hacking into this hacker's system, the guy auctioning the source code, then at large and on the run, but arrested and tried. the downfall of R* and T2 and....
Explain to me who is “getting fucked” here?
These guys however choose to work at a place that decided the gta trilogy was good enough to ship to consumers and rip them off.
I hope you are joking.
The people who worked for years on this are getting fucked. They are robbed of their reveal. People are selling their work on the internet.
Fuck your mortgage and pension pot, just uproot your family and life in Scotland and move to England to work for someone like Rare!
Yeah.
That Sony hack back in the PS3 gen had PSN down for an entire month.
You were stupid enough to buy it. If only you had waited until it launched and looked at reviews. That's too much for some people though.
Dont be an idiot ok? Stop this bullshit or get prescription glasses. Fucking useless troll.
People did already all over the thread.
Or some serious money.
Oh wow where do you get this info from?
Their property has been stolen and their IT systems have been compromised. TakeTwo and Rockstar need to make sure that nothing else is stolen/leaked/sold. Developer systems will need to be shut off from the internet and make sure they are safe before they can get back to work. It will take a while to investigate and fix everything so development of the game could be paused right now. It might not end up being a significant delay but it very likely has been put on hold right now.
