majorgamer10
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What are they talking about? Shares skyrocketed in anticipation of the announcement.
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Halo Developer Critizes Jason Scheier for Leaking GTA 6 Announcement "I feel sorry for the people at Rockstar"
Ozzy Onya A2Z
Member
Corpo mentality - Nah, GTAV/online has been so successful why release GTA6 when it may "miss" or perform worse.
Gamer mentality - fuck these yearly franchise releases but GTA6 being a decade is total bullshit. Riot.
UnravelKatharsis
Member
"accomplished journalist Jason Schreier..."
supernova8
Banned
Sure he's doing his job, but that doesn't make it any less lame to pre-spoil an announcement of an announcement.
chromhound
Gold Member
Where do you think he got the info from 
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crackajack
Member
And would also have if the trailer could have been dropped in the way they wanted to, later. Maybe even more, because an announcement of a not really surprising development isn't really special at all, just generates clicks on sorta empty news and floats up all those GTA VI rumor videos on youtube, while an actual trailer should get people much more excited. It is not impossible that it did actually hinder an even higher later share price. Especially shares are after all based very much on fantasy, excitement and belief.
Whistleblowing about something that is tried to be hidden, sometimes for good reason in the case of national security, is one thing, maybe canceling someone without due process and often creating fake drama because of one or a few disgruntled ex employees talking smack, is then certainly terrible, if not true at all, but those clout chaser are just obnoxious- leaking Plus content a day or two early and other stupid stuff. Sure, it does not really really hurt anyone, and while i would presume marketing people to be among the most overpayed portion in the whole game dev crew, their job is do not just drop it without some manufactured fanfare that was probably very much still under construction here.
HeisenbergFX4
Gold Member
Last I saw the GTA 6 Tweet had over 40 million views, way to go Schreier for killing the hype
sankt-Antonio
:^)--?-<
How is that his job? Leaking when consumer products are announced is not something a journalist needs to have a scoop for. Not if it’s simply ruining marketing for a couple of days of e-pen clout. It’s non news. Not journalism.
Lukaku's First Touch
Member
What does a current Halo developer know about hype.
FinalBossWithTheMostPower
Member
This industry is a bunch of whiny shiteaters. Gamers included.
Dont be stoopid. An announcement about a game known to be in development in no way undermines any of the hard work anyone has done related to the development of the game.
There's speculation in every industry.
Dont be stoopid. An announcement about a game known to be in development in no way undermines any of the hard work anyone has done related to the development of the game.
There's speculation in every industry.
Seems you and the gamesradar journalist think a community manager is a developer.
Tal Shiar Agent
Member
Jason thinks he is Bob Woodward.
SlimySnake
Flashless at the Golden Globes
If it was non news then no one in the industry would be covering it. Every single outlet including mainstream news agencies covered it because it IS news.
Especially when the sequel to the biggest game of all time is announced. It’s no different than saying Trump is planning to announce his presidential run before he officially announces it. No different than reporting a big block buster trade before the team can officially announce it.
This is not a spoiler lmao. The spoiler Generation is just too much.
The tweet was in response to the leak so he "ruined" the surprise announcement but yeah it's not that big a deal that it was leaked.
Dick Jones
Gold Member
Dopey cunt should have said to Rockstar that he knew and would shut the fuck up for an interview that would release around the date of the trailer. That's just me though.
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
Nah, I get wanting to blindside gamers with a surprise announcement of something cool you’ve been working on.
Look at the Steam Deck OLED blindside yesterday. No one saw that coming, but had it been leaked, it would’ve made the announcement pedestrian.
Jason could’ve just kept it all to himself, but nah. Selfish clicks or retweets or whatever for himself are what matters most.
Look at the Steam Deck OLED blindside yesterday. No one saw that coming, but had it been leaked, it would’ve made the announcement pedestrian.
Jason could’ve just kept it all to himself, but nah. Selfish clicks or retweets or whatever for himself are what matters most.
Zombie9ers
Member
He's such a little rat - that press sneak fuck! Probably rubs his nipples while he sends each leaked tweet.
IllegalLemon
Member
If Jason didn't do it, someone else would, it is the nature of video game journalism. First one to get the scoop is always the one who gets the most traffic and subsequent revenue is boatloads. Our dude here is being overly dramatic. "Omg, somebody stole Rockstar's thunder before them, how will they ever recover from this?". He should instead put that effort in telling his team to focus on that half a billion dollar Frankenstein's mess they've put out, instead of playing the white knight and virtue signalling for a project & dev, he ain't even a part of, in an attempt to get brownie points.
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genesisblock
Member
And people in this thread will once again miss the context!
Exactly. There hasn't been a trailer for this PERIOD despite all of the rumors over the years. People would simply have taken this as a possibly unsubstantiated rumor until developers like this Halo guy come out and kicked up dust. Prior to that, I thought, "Whatever, they haven't shown a trailer in forever. I don't know if I believe they'll be showing a trailer any time soon." All Rockstar has to keep on doing is just ignoring it like they have been, let the hype die down, don't show the trailer on the 'expected day', which was some time in December.. That would make people think it was a false rumor, and then shock the world by releasing it on New Years Day right after the countdown.
Rumors and leaks have LONG been part of the gaming industry, so why are all of these people crying?
TheThreadsThatBindUs
Member
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
Exactly! I think Jason actually helped GTA6 here. Now I'm expecting some hotness to drop. My anticipation is high!
Jimmy_liv
Member
This.It essentially becomes a spoiler in this instance.
But that's Jason Scheier for you.
It's all about him.
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poodaddy
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MMaRsu
Member
Hahahaha as if Rockstar actually owes you something, getting mad a sequel isnt in their best interests for the past 10 years.
Be mad at gamers who keep their shitty online game profitable.
hyperbertha
Member
Exactly what was leaked here? The existence of gta 6? Which was already spectacularly leaked gameplay videos in tow a year ago?
MonkD
Member
I understand that a lot of leaks and spoilers can ruin some of the fun for the developers, but at this point it shouldn't come as surprise. It's basically industry standard at this point, and I'm assuming it's not reaching much further than people that actively seek them out.
In this particular case it feels like it doesn't matter at all. They leaked that a trailer would be coming in a month, and then Rockstar announced it with a boring ass tweet. GTA6 trailers are rumored to release every other day, feels more like a cry wolf situation than an announcement to hyped for.
Is the trailer supposed to be shown at the Dorito Pope awards?
In this particular case it feels like it doesn't matter at all. They leaked that a trailer would be coming in a month, and then Rockstar announced it with a boring ass tweet. GTA6 trailers are rumored to release every other day, feels more like a cry wolf situation than an announcement to hyped for.
Is the trailer supposed to be shown at the Dorito Pope awards?
Kokoloko85
Member
Jason Scheier is the Ariel Helwani of video game journalism. Both suck
Majormaxxx
Member
Has Jason ever done anything good for the advancement of gaming or has he always been a sleazy weasel?
TheGodfather07
Member
If Jason has the info, you can't blame him. It's rockstar who need to make sure nothing leaks. Which leads to the question of how Jason schreier keeps getting these leaks? He seems to know alot of stuff before it actually happens.
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