I’ve gotten a bunch of questions in regards to the leaked GTA6 footage and I believed I’d tackle them immediately. First, I need to say that I sympathize with the staff. This isn’t the way it was speculated to go and it actually sucks that the leak occurred. There are many issues value getting mad at Rockstar and Take Two over, however this isn’t one in all them. It actually sucks when folks rush to judgement in your work, particularly primarily based on unsuitable or out-of-date info. That is why publishers often don’t announce video games till there’s one thing to point out. Each recreation in early improvement levels typically appears fairly terrible.
Second, I encourage you all to learn this publish in the event you haven’t:
[What are the negative impacts of leaks? How damaging can they be for the game?]
Leaks suck for the staff 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 objectives for every a part of the sport are, or how this characteristic 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 know-how that occurs over the course of the sport. With out that context, there’s no means that any outsider would be capable of perceive what they’re even speculated to be searching for, not to mention whether or not what they’re seeing is good. And there’s no means 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 large number of causes.
The opposite factor I wished to speak about is how the leaks bought out. Given the character of the leaked information – a lot of quick video clips of in-development demonstrating options and the like – I think what occurred was a breach of some form from Rockstar’s chosen messaging app. I think this for a couple of causes:
- Messaging apps aren’t instantly behind the corporate VPN. Lots of corporations use Slack or Microsoft Groups for inside messaging, however they don’t require the VPN to attach. I would like to connect with my firm VPN to sync the venture, however I don’t want it for e mail or messenger. I can even entry the corporate messenger app through my cellphone. This additionally implies that someone who steals my cellphone can open up my messenger app and have entry to the complete content material there. It’s additionally so much simpler to steal a cellphone than it’s a workstation.
- Inner messaging is a necessity as a result of many people are nonetheless working from house and a requirement to coordinate groups in several time zones. GTA is a gigantic venture with a whole lot of builders engaged on it, they’re probably scattered throughout the globe.
- The video clips weren’t solely of bugs, however a number of demos for options. If it have been lifted from the bug database, the overwhelming majority of movies can be of bugs. Brief video clips shared to varied channels within the messenger to point out off new options coming on-line occurs a lot.
I’ll remind you that I’m no safety professional. That is 100% hypothesis. It’s only one chance that matches the set of info and is nowhere close to the one chance. It could possibly be this or it could possibly be one thing else fully.
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