I’ve gotten a bunch of questions concerning the leaked GTA6 footage and I assumed I’d deal with them at the moment. First, I wish to say that I sympathize with the group. This will not be the way it was imagined to go and it actually sucks that the leak occurred. There are loads of issues price getting mad at Rockstar and Take Two over, however this isn’t considered one of them. It actually sucks when folks rush to judgement in your work, particularly primarily based on fallacious or out-of-date data. This is why publishers often don’t announce video games till there’s one thing to indicate. Every sport in early improvement phases typically appears fairly terrible.

Second, I encourage you all to learn this put up in case you haven’t: 

[What are the negative impacts of leaks? How damaging can they be for the game?]

Leaks suck for the group as a result of we are able to’t management the message and there’s at all times lacking context that the leak doesn’t present. You would possibly see some movies of in-progress work, however you don’t know what the targets for every a part of the sport are, or how this function is there to put the inspiration for a a lot greater system to be constructed on prime of what you see. There’s a ton of planning, dialogue, prototyping, reviewing, and bettering of the concepts, designs, artwork, and expertise that occurs over the course of the sport. Without that context, there’s no approach that any outsider would have the ability to perceive what they’re even imagined to be in search of, not to mention whether or not what they’re seeing is good. And there’s no approach for us to give outsiders that context with out principally exhibiting every thing together with our discussions, our conferences, our dealings with licensors whose IP we’re utilizing, our technical, scheduling, authorized, and budgetary concerns, and so forth. That isn’t possible for a mess of causes.

The different factor I wished to speak about is how the leaks bought out. Given the character of the leaked information – numerous quick video clips of in-development demonstrating options and the like – I think what occurred was a breach of some sort from Rockstar’s chosen messaging app. I think this for just a few causes:

• Messaging apps aren’t instantly behind the corporate VPN. Loads of corporations use Slack or Microsoft Teams for inside messaging, however they don’t require the VPN to attach. I want to hook up with my firm VPN to sync the mission, however I don’t want it for electronic mail or messenger. I may also entry the corporate messenger app through my cellphone. This additionally signifies that anyone who steals my cellphone can open up my messenger app and have entry to the complete content material there. It’s additionally loads simpler to steal a cellphone than it’s a workstation.
• Internal messaging is a necessity as a result of many people are nonetheless working from residence and a requirement to coordinate groups in several time zones. GTA is a gigantic mission with a whole bunch of builders engaged on it, they’re possible scattered throughout the globe.
• The video clips weren’t solely of bugs, however plenty of demos for options. If it had been lifted from the bug database, the overwhelming majority of movies could be of bugs. Short video clips shared to numerous channels within the messenger to indicate off new options coming on-line occurs a lot. 

I’ll remind you that I’m no safety professional. This is 100% hypothesis. It is just one chance that matches the set of information and is nowhere close to the one chance. It could possibly be this or it could possibly be one thing else totally. 

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