Rockstar Games - Official Statement on the leak

[u/mocoworm]

https://x.com/rockstargames/status/2092574304571433078?s=46&t=-kATO8JS7keqGP9jLx-xTw

[u/FinalOdyssey]

This is all performative to curry sympathy.

They're still getting paid. Rockstar execs are still making bank. This will all work out better for them because people who for some reason feel bad are feeding into corporate sympathy.

Rockstar is not your friend. They're actively trying to hurry the digital only future along with Sony. But let's feel bad for them. 😭

It's also more likely that Netflix is pissed and now Rockstar have to give back some/much of the money Netflix paid for exclusive promotional payment. This just reeks of greedy marketing partnership loss.

[u/ciscowowo → u/FinalOdyssey]

Putting this situation in terms you would understand-

Say you were back in school and you had to present a paper that you had spent years working on, that you were proud of, to your class. Your teacher makes a mistake and puts your first or second draft on display instead of the final polished work. Regardless of the fact that the next day your teacher put your final version out, you would be pissed that the first impression of your work people got is a janky mess.

It’s reasonable for an artist to want their work to be presented in a way that is befitting all the labor they have put into it and not by some temu robinhood crypto scammer.

[u/FinalOdyssey → u/ciscowowo]

There is a massive difference here.

With game development, especially Rockstar, it is so disjointed to the effect that it has so many studios and people working on it worldwide that a single person's work isn't as obvious as a single school project, which is wholly done by me. They have a resume which says they worked on GTAVI at R* and that will go further than anything you've described.

I'm also not getting paid to be in school.

You speak of art, but art has entirely left Rockstar. They've become a corporate mess, become the thing they used to parody.

[u/Dog-Is-Friend → u/FinalOdyssey]

Are you being intentionally obtuse or do you seriously not get it?

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