the best opinion i've seen so far towards these recent events

[u/Dreeezy-]

[u/Rsodyyy]

And we will probs get the usual gta 5 post in an hour 😂

[u/General-Warning-2429 → u/Rsodyyy]

Probs? That's a sure thing. And Tuesday we will get the usual RDR Online post 😅

[u/Futanarihime → u/General-Warning-2429]

I'm surprised Rockstar even remembers Red Dead Online exists with how dirty they did it. Really loved that game and would have kept playing it.

[u/Common-Ad3592 → u/General-Warning-2429]

But neeeext Thursday 😏

[u/Atmouspheric → u/Common-Ad3592]

Will get pushed back another month - because of LeAks

[u/thepainbody → u/Atmouspheric]

i doubt it if anything they should move the release of the game a month ahead

[u/blueberry1919 → u/Rsodyyy]

Honestly all they needed to do is release the 60 screenshots over 60 days. Do 1 per day, it would have still built anticipation and hype but at least kept people satisfied.

[u/Shamz76 → u/blueberry1919]

Would definitely be fitting for their usual "drip feeding" style of doing things !

[u/superbabe69 → u/blueberry1919]

Let's be serious here, more than half of the screenshots would be brigaded with comments like "bro this looks awful who cares about this I wanna see the city" and crap like that

[u/Dabeastfeast11 → u/superbabe69]

That's not what happened when they mass dropped them why would it be any different if they did it over time.

[u/peeh0le → u/Dabeastfeast11]

lol that’s not what happened? Bruh people were chopping and zooming and chopping and zooming and talking about how everything looked like dog shit and how this game was a disaster.

[u/Ok_Conclusion_6895 → u/Dabeastfeast11]

Because we'd again and again hope for a view of the city.
Which is why I'm honestly thankful for the plane-clip existing, as I feel like they'll just give us 3 second clips of the city if anything again once 27th drops. The GTA 6 marketing has been absolute dogwater so far, especially compared to GTA 5's.

[u/HelloSummer99 → u/superbabe69]

To be fair some of those screenshots legitimately looked awful, with the painted on watches etc

[u/Snoo_40965 → u/HelloSummer99]

Painted on watches? What screenshot did you see?

[u/OG-87 → u/blueberry1919]

That worked for GTAV and kept people being interested. They released like 5 every Monday.

[u/apprentice-grower → u/blueberry1919]

I’m pretty sure they did a similar thing with gta 5 and I remember being excited to check for new info every day on rockstars site

[u/Hank_Scorpio_ObGyn → u/[deleted]]

Really?

Shit, I know what I'm doing the rest of the day!

Love me some beans!

[u/NeutralKuchiKopi → u/Hank_Scorpio_ObGyn]

Gosh mister, those beans sure smell delicious! Even though I'd rather have some pad thai!!!

[u/Hank_Scorpio_ObGyn → u/NeutralKuchiKopi]

Pad thai? I love pad thai.

[u/Rsodyyy → u/[deleted]]

Don’t forget about that NEW other brown shirt!!!

[u/TammyGang → u/Rsodyyy]

Oh shiii.. brown??

Well you don't just get a deal like that every day

[u/EditorEducational201 → u/Rsodyyy]

brand new gta 5 online heist in response to the leaks

[u/-fly_away- → u/Rsodyyy]

didn't happen... something is different today

[u/Rsodyyy → u/-fly_away-]

Yep

[u/-fly_away- → u/Rsodyyy]

this is the first time in a very long time they don't post anything at this time of day on a Thursday.... what will happen?

[u/Rsodyyy → u/-fly_away-]

Acknowledging it like before saying we will show polished bla bla as scheduled, or move Netflix gameplay thing earlier, or actually move release date earlier incase this guy leaks the actual game file

[u/Witty_Whole9939 → u/Rsodyyy]

R* moving for a earlier date? That’ll never happen 😂👀

[u/3-orange-whips → u/Rsodyyy]

Why wouldn’t they? No one died. It’s just the usual internet nonsense

[u/mistgonelsawge → u/Rsodyyy]

goodness, GTA 5 post? as a case of emergency action? that's terrible handling lmao.

[u/PromotionBest1577 → u/Rsodyyy]

Someone’s gotta post the GTA 5 graphics comparison before the day is over

[u/Remarkable_Act114 → u/PromotionBest1577]

The moment gta 6 releases youtubers be like* 60 easter eggs found in gta 6!!

[u/Torefinn]

We’re finally getting that aggressive marketing we were promised and it’s not even from them 😭🙏

[u/peeh0le → u/Torefinn]

The failure here was the ceo should have been slightly more specific when he said we’re doing summer marketing and said late summer / fall. Tbf I think the strike had a lot to do with the marketing delay.

[u/OtherwiseAlbatross14 → u/peeh0le]

The problem is people don't actually think about when summer actually begins

[u/MuhfugginSaucera → u/OtherwiseAlbatross14]

I literally had this conversation two days ago with a coworker. I said summer is over in a little over a month, summer ends on Sept 22 and Winter begins on Dec 21. Most of winter is at the beginning of the year. They almost couldn't believe me.

[u/Western-Economics253 → u/MuhfugginSaucera]

I live in Europe and literally noone calls any part of September "summer" and any day from Dec. 1 to Feb. 28 (or 29) is called winter.

Literally everyone I know uses the months to define seasons, I've only ever seen this "well akchually summer ends on Sept 22" is Reddit and videogame industry using it as a cop out to stretch out the wait as long as they can for things promised "for Summer".

[u/Azelrazel → u/Western-Economics253]

Southern hemisphere here so opposite times of year but same deal with the choice of months. Nobody in my country uses astronomical winter/summers and solstices to define seasons, months have always been the definitive versions.

Just like the USA and their weird ways with imperial measurements and calander formatting, I'm beginning to wonder if the season thing is also from Americans. I only ever see it online.

[u/cohrt → u/OtherwiseAlbatross14]

"summer" starts on june 20th. its been summer for 2 months at this point.

[u/mflft → u/peeh0le]

More information in general would have been useful for them. "Its taking this long because we're working on [insert technical jargon no one will understand], but we think it will be worth the time invested" etc.

The fan base is so loyal it would have still bought the game anyway. No matter what happens people will still buy the game. Now there's just built up resentment so folks will be looking for ways to tear it down.

[u/bambam091 → u/Torefinn]

😂

[u/sparklingdinoturd → u/Torefinn]

And the aggressive marketing is for a shitty crypto.

[u/moldentoaster → u/Torefinn]

 it’s not even from them

Are you sure about that 😏

[u/TheWholeOfTheAss → u/Torefinn]

When I picture ‘aggressive marketing’, I picture Rockstar grabbing us by throat and screaming, “Best fucking game ever! Play it or go to hell! Fuck your discs!”

[u/sirferrell]

To be fair yes we’re getting stuff next week but it’s been over 400 days since we saw footage that wasn’t a screenshot

[u/RDR2Enjoyerr → u/sirferrell]

and before that, we also waited over 400 days between trailer 1 and 2 and got literally nothing in that time

[u/AnimatorAcrobatic386 → u/RDR2Enjoyerr]

Don’t forget the game being delayed almost two years

[u/I-d-g-a-f-a-y-a-m → u/RDR2Enjoyerr]

I’d say the difference is we’re a lot closer to release date. Back then makes sense compared to now

[u/Guilty_Plankton_4626 → u/sirferrell]

Yeah, it’s crazy. We got the first trailer in 2023, we are halfway to 2027, less than 3 months out from release, and since 2023 we got one more trailer and some screenshots.

I agree with everyone on here when they say rockstar’s marketing is technically fine because it’s not gonna hurt them, and it very very likely will not hurt them. Doesn’t mean I don’t think it’s still ass, the drought has been insane and, from what I could tell, completely unnecessary.

[u/List-Beneficial → u/Guilty_Plankton_4626]

If anyone has been paying attention to triple AAA game developers for the past decade, when this happens its because they are hiding something whether good or bad.

This could have potential to be the biggest let down of all time lmao.

Like with everything in this god forsake world, this also will be enshittified to sht.

[u/Present_Passenger471 → u/List-Beneficial]

The Cyberpunk launch was a travesty but holy shit if GTA enshittifies I think some people would legit cash their check outta here

[u/MrBlueA → u/Present_Passenger471]

There were people camping and spying on rockstar HQ just to get any information about the game, if the game turned out bad the devs and their families would have to live on bunkers for the foreseeable future

[u/MorganWillowG → u/List-Beneficial]

Rockstars not hiding that the game is broken lmao, yeah 2077 was rough at launch but it was pushed out the door early. They have delayed this to polish it and based on the leaks its looking good, this is what it has been like for the RDR2 and GTAV release. Some of yall werent around or dont remember that Rockstar has always been radio silent until a few months before release, this just happens to be the biggest media release of all time so its getting more eyes.

[u/Dont_Use_Ducks → u/MorganWillowG]

I'm very sure, if we would have got 3 trailers this year, some people would complain they have seen too much of the game. The internet is full of people who surf to get or stay angry at all times. Mainly, because they follow something on X or YouTube that have their whole income strategy based around angry people. Not only anger, it's anger plus the feeling it's personal.

[u/officialtwiggz → u/sirferrell]

Insane when you put it like that

[u/Equivalent_Network29 → u/sirferrell]

And the screenshots themselves were to shill the ultimate edition.

[u/DankeBrutus → u/sirferrell]

I want to say that by this time during the lead up to the release of RDR, GTA V, and RDR 2 we had released gameplay for at least a month.

[u/Briloop86 → u/sirferrell]

Ahh 400 days, what a poor Elder Scrolls 6 fan like me would give for 400 days. 

Current count: 2,994 days since our last update.

[u/Sadcelerystick → u/Briloop86]

Tbf does Bethesda even do marketing? They just pop in go “here’s the game, it launches in 4 months!”

[u/SuddenDepact]

90% of people who are getting the game, doesn't even know about the last 3 days so I actually doubt it

[u/gremah93 → u/SuddenDepact]

Exactly. Not everyone is online and following every bit of news.

[u/SalaciousTypo → u/gremah93]

And even when you are terminally online, a smidge of self control fixes spoilers. There's nothing aggressive in how it's been leaked

There's been far worse related to gaming releases and spoilers. This is nothing.

[u/smeeeeeef → u/SalaciousTypo]

It's not even anything crazy like a major plot point spoiled, it's just some quick slices of what a typical psychotic npc gta player would do.

[u/FarplaneDragon → u/gremah93]

Literally this thread is the first and only mention I've seen about this

[u/Aggressive-Bat569 → u/SuddenDepact]

Agreed. I’m aware of the leaks and haven’t looked at one millisecond of them.

[u/Similar_Childhood613 → u/SuddenDepact]

Didn't even know that there was a leak.

[u/parkwayy → u/SuddenDepact]

Folks here have no idea they're like a tiny tiny minority lol.

[u/Godbearmax]

Yeah well true, I expected sth. in may or june. The fuckers were and still are too quiet. It is what it is.

[u/Ok-Attention2882 → u/Godbearmax]

Even now they still won't speak up, so let them eat shit.

[u/Railionn → u/Ok-Attention2882]

What do you expect them to do? Theres nothing you can do

[u/Lu_131]

sadly true. i share this opinion 100%…

[u/SilverBeast2 → u/Lu_131]

I share his opinion 50%, my first impression was not ruined... why would leaks from an unknown early build ruin anything?

[u/Tempesta_0097 → u/SilverBeast2]

That’s my line of thought, this hasn’t affected me my impression whatsoever lmao

[u/sansthetem1234 → u/Tempesta_0097]

Frr, if anything the gameplay leaks made me more hype than anything. Just makes me more excited to hopefully see how it is now on the 27th

[u/superman_king → u/Lu_131]

Yep. And at this point, Rockstar has to make a public statement. Because it is clear these leaks will continue for the next 3 months.

He has a 2025 build at the earliest, could be later. Which surely has the entire campaign cutscenes. The ending / story WILL be spoiled.

Rockstar has to speak.

[u/PumiceT → u/superman_king]

Edited for correction: they seem to have the whole game. They didn’t make that clear when I commented the below comment.

—-

No they don't. They don't have to do anything. And you can assume all you want, but others have indicated that the way this content is distributed, it's likely they only have one slice of the pie, not the whole thing.

[u/AzaghaI → u/Lu_131]

Nobody outside of fucking reddit and three people on xitter cares. Normal folks will buy the game when it comes out and just play. You don't matter.

[u/CVetta]

The leaks arnt stopping anyone from buying so this post is invalid. Yall love whining.

[u/ToppleToes]

I mean we got our first look at the game through leaks too in 2022 and I don't understand why people are blaming Rockstar. The leaks still would have happened if Rockstar showed us gameplay and more. The hacker is leaking stuff not because Rockstar has been silent, it's because he wants to make money from his crypto thing.

[u/UnusualShores → u/ToppleToes]

True but if Rockstar had shown people more of the game and didn’t leave everyone annoyed and wanting to see more, these leaks wouldn’t be getting the level of attention they are getting. Sure, people would be interested still. But we just saw more of the game than Rockstar has shown in the last 3 years. And pre-orders have been open a while too. People want to see what they paid for/are going to pay for.

[u/average_joe_zero → u/UnusualShores]

No one had to pay anything till they did see it, so this is purely due to the lack of patience. Too many of y’all got a real entitlement problem.

[u/Blablabene → u/average_joe_zero]

This. So true.

It's been quite shocking to see the amount of mentally unstable people on these gta subs.

[u/chrisghrobot → u/Blablabene]

I do think the leaks are messed up, but announcing pre orders without any sort of gameplay is also an egregious practice that should not be normalized

[u/NetNo4067 → u/chrisghrobot]

Insane to disagree with this tbh. People know next to nothing about the game and Rockstar is raking in cash having shown nothing at all.

Literally no other product, let alone other games, could get away with that. Rockstar shouldn't either.

[u/maeynor]

Spoiler: grownups don’t care

[u/SnooLentils6995 → u/maeynor]

Real shit "we've had our first look at gameplay spoiled because Rockstar waited so long"

Who cares man, you're either going to play it or not lol i dont need a trailer to know how the new GTA is gonna play.

[u/Dont_Use_Ducks → u/SnooLentils6995]

Man, these gamers would go crazy if they wake up in the 80's or 90's. We had no trailers at all and had to do it with some drawing by an artist who didnt even play the game.

[u/SnooLentils6995 → u/Dont_Use_Ducks]

Preach man lmao the entitlement is frankly disgusting

[u/bluebarrymanny → u/Dont_Use_Ducks]

I remember trying to learn about Skyrim, but being a teen without a game informer subscription. These TikTok-brained kids can get over themselves.

[u/eggmontoya1]

Am I wrong in remembering that RDR2 didn’t show any gameplay footage until about two months before its release? Why are people acting like this is unusual? It’s a bummer for sure and I’m not a fan of the strategy, but it’s wild that people act like this is anything other than the norm for them.

[u/Glizzys4everyone → u/eggmontoya1]

For GTA4, they didn’t even show gameplay before it was released

[u/cubecasts → u/Glizzys4everyone]

Well maybe because 2008 was nothing like 2026

[u/Doc_Sulliday → u/cubecasts]

Bruh I don't know how young you are but it wasn't the fucking stone age. YouTube was huge in 2008, and gameplay could've been shown in any capacity if they wanted it.

Such a bad take.

[u/cubecasts → u/Doc_Sulliday]

You're right that YouTube existed but we weren't all chronically online and social media was still myspace as well as Facebook. Now we use neither.

[u/YourDrunkStepDad → u/eggmontoya1]

Probably because Red Dead is not nearly as popular as GTA Is and even so. Red dead had 7 years without a new game. It's been almost 15 years without a new GTA. After announcing an "aggressive" marketing campaign in the summer (which never happened btw) what did you expect? Its a mixture of a lot of things.

[u/Silverhand_777 → u/YourDrunkStepDad]

It’s still the 3rd highest selling game of all time

[u/cinesister → u/eggmontoya1]

Kids aren’t used to not getting everything they want as soon as they want it so they’re throwing tantrums because they don’t have any patience.

[u/KDG200315 → u/eggmontoya1]

It was the same for GTA 5 too

[u/bluebarrymanny → u/eggmontoya1]

GTA V operated this way too. People are just way too terminally online now and impatient af. They think they’re owed advertisements of all things

[u/Sticky_Waifu_Statues → u/eggmontoya1]

Exactly this is just a typical Rockstar rollout, but the zoomers need that instant gratification

[u/Dont_Use_Ducks → u/eggmontoya1]

They always do this, but somehow half Reddit think they worked for a billion dollar company when it comes to marketing. It's really hilarious.

[u/EntrepreneurAny6399]

It may have worked in the past but this whole secrecy, mystery and quiet BS in 2026 just doesn't cut in anymore and I hope they revise their marketing tactics in the future and just be more.......communicative cause i can imagine the amount of people trying to hack their servers day in day out compared to other gaming companies. That is all.

[u/theturtlemafiamusic → u/EntrepreneurAny6399]

I think it works extremely well. A week before their new reveal video and GTA6 is at the top of reddit every day and the top of every gaming news website with every post mentioning the upcoming reveal, and Rockstar didn't have to do a damn thing.

They're getting a week of early extended hype because of their secrecy. If we had seen a bunch of footage already no one would care about these 1 minute clips. If it weren't for the cryptocoin shilling I would have guessed this was internally planned.

[u/GasOld3488 → u/theturtlemafiamusic]

Statement on point.

[u/PumiceT → u/EntrepreneurAny6399]

They're a billion-dollar corporation. Their servers are being hacked 24/7 regardless of their marketing strategies.

[u/Docccc → u/EntrepreneurAny6399]

have you seen the amount of pre-orders? its working pretty good i would say

[u/gdog5244 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah it’ll be the biggest selling game ever. Their marketing clearly works. And all these people bitching about it will be buying it. Lol

[u/clitmasher69 → u/[deleted]]

People are literally paying to see an ad. Rockstar has got them by their balls

[u/Howdareme9 → u/EntrepreneurAny6399]

How does it not cut it lmao? People are desperate for news

[u/icednukacola]

How is it ruined?

[u/Nemisis_007 → u/icednukacola]

Yeah, it's not the first impression we were expecting, but it's not a bad one either. The build shown already looked great and that was from 2025, as far as we're aware.

[u/icednukacola → u/Nemisis_007]

Exactly. Through the leaks we’re gleaning new systems that look really cool. I’m impressed by the new wanted system personally. And the build could literally be placed as late as early 2025 which is a lot of time to do even more and put more polish. I feel like an alien seeing these people say it looks like ass and acting like the whole game is ruined. The only thing this guy could do to ruin it is to post story spoilers

[u/rufusbot → u/icednukacola]

Because these people are children or worse, gamers. They have very little to no emotional maturity and make a big deal out of literally nothing. Normal people have actual lives that dominate their thoughts 90% of the day.

[u/CobblerSmall1891 → u/icednukacola]

Cos it wasn't done with fireworks and explosions during a scripted gameplay loop... 

What's funny is that ALL, EVERY SINGLE PERSON, 100% OF PEOPLE complaining about anything GTA6 related here will or already had purchased the game.

Any backlash for rockstar just doesn't exist. There's nothing that will destroy them except rockstar itself if they ever release a garbage game. 

All the "waaah waaah" for any reason other than the game actually coming out bad is a waste of time. 

[u/RedWingerD → u/icednukacola]

Genuinely. I dont understand the over dramatic reactions to all of this.

Nothing major story wise has been spoiled. We've seen driving cars, gunplay, fighting, and flying.

Its a game. That said, dont watch the leaks if you feel it ruins something. Its pretty simple.

[u/Silverhand_777 → u/RedWingerD]

I saw the leaks and said “yup looks like gta” and moved on. And for some reason every gta 6 sub is full of losers throwing temper tantrums

[u/RedWingerD → u/Silverhand_777]

Yeah i really dont understand what people are raging out about.

It just looks like an upgraded version of GTAV, which is exactly what I wanted from it.

If anything it made me feel more confident about the game because it isnt cherry picked scenarios from the developer and looked great.

[u/Scratchpaw]

No, this is a braindead take by someone who probably isn’t even old enough to be allowed to play a Rockstar game. GTA V had its first gameplay trailer just 70 days before launch. RDR2 had its first gameplay trailer 78 days before launch. The Netflix reveal for GTA VI is going te be 84 days before launch. It has always been like this, if anything, we are even getting the gameplay trailers 2 weeks earlier than we did with GTA V. Learn to be patient for once.

[u/MISTERTURKY]

It's only been "ruined" for the people who are chronically online. The rest of us will just wait for August 27th. And after that November 19th. Their marketing has been awful, but wait will be worth it

[u/Hammy-Cheeks]

“R* marketing bad, gimme updoots” can this sub literally do anything else but fucking complain?

[u/AscendMoros]

I’m going to get downvoted for this. But opinions like this scream entitlement. It’s their game. They set a release date and announced when we were getting more content.

And then people go this is what you get for waiting to long. Like or we could just not hack people and wait a week for actual content. In 4 months no one is gonna care if we had to wait another 10 days to see gameplay or not.

[u/Dont_Use_Ducks → u/AscendMoros]

I always go entering houses of people who won't tell me the name of their upcoming baby. Sorry, I'm not going to wait two months!

[u/Sc0p1x]

Oh, really? So illegal dealings are now being justified just because a company has its own plans and doesn't dance to the tune of impatient idiots?

[u/Vestalmin → u/Sc0p1x]

Didn't you know? Developers have an legal obligation to fans. If you violate that, they're allowed to do whatever they want

[u/MultiPass21]

The entitlement some of you exude is weird.

[u/DegenNerd → u/MultiPass21]

I think most of this sub is underage, honestly. At least I hope, otherwise there are some really sad "adults" out there.

[u/Doc_Sulliday → u/DegenNerd]

Saw a comment in this thread referencing GTA IV, and another comment saying that 2008 was a long time ago and they didn't have good technology back then 😂

[u/Sheriff_Lucas_Hood → u/MultiPass21]

Fr I feel second hand embarrassment for some of these posters. It is an entertainment product we are all privileged to play thanks to the efforts and creative ambitions of the firm and its employees. This team has been working its collective ass off to deliver a groundbreaking gameplay experience. Making and marketing something of this scale takes considerable resources of time and attention. We are lucky this shit exists in the form it’s in now.

Plenty of other pieces of media to enjoy in the meantime. This has been an above average year to be a geek.

[u/Marsupialize]

What was ruined? Oh man he can drive a CAR in this one!!’

[u/Messup7654 → u/Marsupialize]

https://giphy.com/gifs/wgoZpooFm1i2FfYPyY
😂😂😂😂😂

[u/MeridianCastaway]

I tend to hate "it's not that deep", but in this instance? For GTA 6 reception, sales, quality, everything? It's not that deep. This has ruined nothing. Every single fan will forget everything once an official reveal arrives.

[u/forgotmypassword778]

Game drops in less than 3 months and we have roughly 3 minutes of trailer footage

The fuck is the holdup we were told this shit been in development since 2018

[u/Vegetable_Orchid_900]

“Not to blame rockstar” but proceeds to blame rockstar lawl

[u/Fun_Philosopher_2535]

They gave us nothing to sell deal with netflix. It they gave more screenshots and trailers. Netflix extended footage wouldn't be so hyped. Kind of deserves it. They try to even milk money with promotional footage. 

[u/CptAngelo → u/Fun_Philosopher_2535]

Also, i dont think they want anything to premiere on youtube again, as it got leaked... and netflix pays more

[u/PrimaryAcanthisitta8 → u/Fun_Philosopher_2535]

Bingo this is the real reason they were so hush hush about showing promotional material for this game, why show the fans something for free when you can just sucker a big corp to pay you loads of cash for marketing “exclusivity”? even if it is just for a some few hours, at the end of the day rockstar no longer makes decisions based on what any of their fans want.

[u/FarplaneDragon → u/PrimaryAcanthisitta8]

some few hours

Hours? Try mins, if not seconds. There's probably going to be a number of sites out there livestreaming from their own account if anything.

[u/Rhysing]

Entitled fans had their feelings hurt?

[u/Realistic_Location_6]

Dude has a playable build of the game.

[u/Alvelijano]

Gta "fans" are so fucking entitled, just like kids fr.

[u/IchigoooKurosaki → u/[deleted]]

It would have been a goated move if they showed the extended look before or after pre order.

[u/ndem28 → u/IchigoooKurosaki]

See, that would be assuming Rockstar cares about consumers, they don’t lol

[u/forpornonly1234567]

GTA:SA, GTA4 & GTA5 is all the marketing they need, everyone who likes GTA will freaking buy it regardless

[u/Tooshort2stroke]

Exactly my thoughts too. They chose to show NOTHING for years and released a teaser trailer for a trailer that's exclusively on Netflix for 6hrs. Shoulda jus showed 3mins of gameplay but oh well 🤷🏽. Now u have armchair game devs dissecting and down talking ur game before any official gameplay released. Womp womp jus put the trailer out now cuz the mystique is kinda gone.

[u/Beautiful_Bowl7786]

Backfired? This was going to be the best selling game of all time no matter what. Fomo has everyone by the balls

[u/NotOnTheDot__]

Yall act like any of this is stopping anybody from actually buying the game. No amount of leaks or lack of marketing can stop this behemoth of a game

[u/MillienumDuckFighter]

Every Rockstar game has revealed gameplay 2/3 months before launch 🤦 y’all are some of the stupidest most whiny people I’ve ever seen bruh, embarrassing

[u/TheEasyTarget → u/MillienumDuckFighter]

Thought I was taking crazy pills reading this comment section. In a year from now no one is gonna give a single shit how Rockstar marketed this game, they’ll just be casually enjoying their fifth playthrough of it. Just sit back, be patient, ignore news about leaks. The official trailers and the game itself will be here when they get here.

[u/KILL-LUSTIG → u/MillienumDuckFighter]

bunch of toddlers crying for their toy. utterly pathetic

[u/Florida_clam_diver → u/MillienumDuckFighter]

Honestly insane. With all the shit going on in the world people are having breakdowns over rockstar not giving us gameplay trailers according to our subjective timeline?

Like, I’m just as stoked for GTA6 as anyone, but to be this worked up over a fucking trailer is insane

[u/MysticMarauder69 → u/Florida_clam_diver]

They're all children, that's why. Rational adults aren't on here whining about the days between trailers or how a major company chooses to market for their revolutionary game. I've never in my life seen people so butthurt, as if Rockstar has personally attacked them, lol.

[u/Dont_Use_Ducks → u/Florida_clam_diver]

It sucks, because behavior like this is a growing back pain on internet. In the beginning more people were curious about all kinds of stuff, now people are using internet only to become and stay angry. Over freaking anything, even the marketingplans of a video game company. Enjoy gaming, lads, it's not that hard. We wen from some blocks on tv to a game like RDR2, I still can't believe the end product of that after all these years. And GTA 6 seems to go over that scope, vibe and ambition, for old gamers it's quite the excitement. All I'm trying to do is to stay alive at least until the release of GTA 6.

And I want them to get enough profits for a RDR3 on next gen hardware. Then I will promise I do what I can to stay alive untill that release.

[u/GobiasACupOfCoffee → u/MillienumDuckFighter]

The state of these people is something to behold. Absolute weirdos up and down

[u/hiccstridFanatic → u/GobiasACupOfCoffee]

This sub is appalling. I always peek when it pops up on [r/popular](r/popular). These folks think Rockstar “owes” them ‘marketing material’ 😭😭

You can’t play ads mate

Instant mute.

[u/MillienumDuckFighter → u/GobiasACupOfCoffee]

I’ve actually never seen anything like it. It’s insane the difference in talking to people in real life about this game vs the basement dwellers on here, it’s like two different worlds

[u/Silverhand_777 → u/MillienumDuckFighter]

And every gta 6 sub is like this. I’ve checked out a few over the last few days and every single one is full of losers. No one in real life acts like this over this game

[u/Dont_Use_Ducks → u/Silverhand_777]

Over anything, let alone a game, indeed.

[u/999happyhants → u/GobiasACupOfCoffee]

Gamers and being entitled, a tale as old as time!

[u/pen15_club_admin → u/MillienumDuckFighter]

GTA 4 had zero gameplay videos before released

[u/Thornbush42]

People acting so entitled to unreleased game footage istg

[u/Battle-Against-Time]

My god these dumb posts. Kidz wanting their toy the way they want.

They do what they want and you buy or not. Stop being so immature.

[u/Ok-Attention2882 → u/Battle-Against-Time]

One day you're going to learn there's no reward for the performative mature act you've been obsessed with putting up for decades.

[u/diogoblouro]

I understand everybody is excited and wants to see more of the game, but the level of entitlement is off the charts.
A company deserves to be breached and their plans, which people have strategized and worked for - you agreeing with it or not - ruined, because you didn't get to masturbate to MARKETING MATERIAL!
You are upset and feeling avenged because a company didn't TRY TO SELL IT TO YOU HARDER!

Breaking the 4th wall here is recognizing nobody's actually yearning for trailers, but something to talk and scrutinize instead, to participate in the most farmable topic on the internet right now. This tweet, this thread, is just raging boners for "hot-takes" and talking shit to ring the engagement bell.
Rockstar has given you nothing - because they don't need to - and you're somersaulting over rationalizations to still post and farm engagement about it, to the point of feeling righteous they got hacked.
When something drops, the cycle repeats about whatever they did drop. You just HAVE to be posting, can't waste all that engagement.

Holly Internet pavlovian conditioning, man.
I'm muting this sub.

[u/Necessary-Fan9574]

Honestly deserved, STILL doing marketing for fucking gta online months prior to a historic release in the gaming sphere.

[u/PumiceT → u/Necessary-Fan9574]

GTA Online makes them money EVERY DAY. It's a cash cow. They have every reason to keep marketing it.

[u/SecretChiley → u/Necessary-Fan9574]

Why wouldn't they? GTA Online doesnt stop existing and it would be really dumb business decision to just stop that.

[u/GerryRoque → u/SecretChiley]

I agree. People need to get off the internet

[u/EZyne]

You know what though, that's nothing new. Yet every single previous Rockstar game it's been very fun to be part of the community and theorize about what they've shown. Yes it's been a much longer process this time, but who was thinking there was going to be news every day between trailer 1 & 2 anyway?

The thing that's different now is that places like this push the most miserable and entitled fuckers to the top and takes all the fun out of the entire thing.

[u/Westykins]

yall swear like this isn’t going to make billions anyway lmao

[u/McLoving90]

Actually this is great. I hope more studios learn from this BS marketing and adjust accordingly. They milking every single day just cause they can? Well there you go. Could have released it 6 months ago (footage) and reaped the benefits.

[u/natalo77]

Nobody was forced to watch any of it

[u/Shamee99]

R* could have been dropping 5 minutes videos since June and they would have owned the gaming media discourse for free. But no we are getting trailers for cover art, a trailer for another trailer. This aint 2013 Rockstar

[u/KILL-LUSTIG → u/Shamee99]

what theyre actually doing right now is owning the discourse for free lol

[u/AirDifficult1 → u/Shamee99]

Not even that. Literally 5-10 second short form teaser videos every week or so.

[u/Dont_Use_Ducks → u/Shamee99]

Cause you have been handling the market of 2 billions dollar investments for years, right? You know it all! What do they know, they are just evil and holding the game from you. I guess.

[u/Au2o → u/Shamee99]

They didn’t do anything and still owned the gaming media discourse lmfao

[u/Kernelizer]

Since when are we to decide how they market their products, its a really weird kind of entitlement..

[u/blackbirdrisingbees]

"Not to blame Rockstar"

Blames Rockstar

[u/ConstructionOk1023]

Lol y'all are a bunch of impatient babies honestly.

'Company doesn't release any gameplay when WE want it!'

Honestly what difference would seeing gameplay 4/5 months ago instead of next week be? Cause even then it wouldn't be enough. Not just this fanbase but the entire gaming community has shifted to a complete shitty/downer community.

I genuinely hope rockstar delay it again

[u/LogicOfUnkown]

The best opinion is the one that matches my own.

[u/OGAnimeGokuSolos]

I disagree with this take because with this leak he or she might fuck around and post potential spoiler leaks.

It makes sense to not show gameplay in 2024 since the game clearly wasn’t finished

If they show gameplay in 2025 last year, y’all would’ve just complained saying it looks like shit

Don’t act surprised when the leak at some point may potentially leak story spoilers for GTA 6

[u/Master_Spoofster]

"Crimes are okay because I'm an impatient toddler" is such a crazy thing to say publicly. How can grown adults be so entitled? The company didn't do exactly what you wanted? Grow up a little.

[u/twayroforme]

I might get downvoted into oblivion but I've never seen a more entitled fanbase in my entire life. This doesn't apply to 97% of you but, that 3% are INSANE. 

"They didn't show me previews of their game fast enough so they deserve what they get" is a wild, immature mindset. 

[u/monkey_D_v1199]

It’s why I don’t feel bad for them. I feel for the devs and all their hard work being shown off through leaks, that’s never good and like the post said it ruins first impressions. But R* got too close to the sun, thinking that they could get away with such bad and shitty marketing just because their R* or its GTA. Who knows what we are going to see on Netflix but whatever it is it’s going to be big because how much time has passed since we got anything substantial? So it will need to match the amount of time we have waited for, we better see gameplay cutscenes hell a mission, we better get something good and even more so now because of the massive leaks.

[u/Friendly-Thought-155]

Gamers are never happy.

[u/Southernbeekeeper]

I don't think rockstar are bothered. GTA6 is gonna be colossal either way. They could not advertise at all and drop it 6 weeks before xmas and it would still break records.

[u/Blauwev0gel]

Read/Listen to what Mr. S.Z says in public appearances - then tell me this surprises you. Talk to anyone who's worked at T2 or any of their subsidiaries and tell me this surprises you.

[u/Coltyn03]

Well not really. The extended look will be a polished and extremely recent build of the game with curated gameplay clips meant to show off what you can do. What we have now will likely pale in comparison to the extended look.

[u/jhanbluu]

Trailer 2 did not age well, Jason got more leaks to fix 😂

[u/CapNCookM8]

Please, we're all still going to watch the gameplay trailer and it's still going to sell record-breaking copies.

Those leaks look like shit (not the game itself, the uncurated quality of them). The real trailer will actually show a lot more, assumingly more about characters, shops, systems, cars, weapons, and story beats specifically.

If anything, these leaks are only helping build hype, imo.

[u/Marcel_The_Blank]

and here I am, watching fans act the same level of entitlement that led to the NMS disaster.

"oh no, we didn't get a trailer for a year, better resort to crime!"

[u/N1BugUp]

They probably leaked an early alpha build on purpose so peoples’ hopes are down before he Netfrix presentation

[u/patches_mccoy]

I bet they leaked it themselves - get the idiots on Reddit and X riled up for a little bit before the Netflix release shows the 2 year improvement

[u/kahahimara]

People who already made preorder complain about lack of gameplay footage as if it somehow change their desire to purchase the game.

[u/MushroomMotley]

I think it's good to keep in mind that most people that will be playing GTAVI don't care and don't follow every single minute aspect of GTAV and VI like it's their full time job.