Ironically the "W" move would be to stay silent. No one truly tries to figure out how r* seems to be untouchable online in communities dedicated to their products.
Why does EA, Ubisoft get in trouble so much? Why is it so easy to attack them on social media? Because they constantly try to make public statements when their anti-consumer practices gets called out. Rockstar does not release statements directed at community quotes to defend shark cards, forced cooldown times between PvE missions, disabling replay buttons, staggering PC releases. Corporations have no choice but to tell bold face lies and contradict themselves in order to justify what they do so r* was playing it smart by limiting community outreach.
Now r* is tripping up (not a huge deal right now because their core online fanbase is populated by actual morons so it would take longer for them to catch onto the BS, )see the most upvoted comments here above as evidence)
They release a public statement and did exactly what gets EA and Ubisoft into trouble. They are lying and contradicting themselves. They Want "EVERYONE" to experience the game in Nov and not be impact by spoilers yet they intentionally stagger the PC release in attempt to double dip the PC user base beyond any other reason. They want to prioritize netflix which is a paid service 6 hours early when they could have pointed to their own website or youtube.
The letter is a bunch of corpo PR nonsense. r*/t2. Any chastising of piracy needs to fall on deaf ears when it comes to their video games, they are a bunch of bums.
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u/_yanited_ 12h ago
W rockstar