GTA 6 leak is a loss for Rockstar, leaker, and Grand Theft Auto fans

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The GTA 6 leak is among the biggest in industry history. It’s difficult to remember a larger release of gameplay footage or documentation for any game, let alone one as anticipated as Grand Theft Auto 6. But without meaning to lecture or condescend, it’s difficult to see who wins here. Rockstar Games has had its most significant launch in history essentially ruined, the leaker themselves is likely to become a target for very punitive legal action from Take-Two, and as for GTA fans themselves, well, so far as I can tell, we haven’t really learned anything new. Even if we have, we’ve learned it in a way that looks kind of lousy and feels morally dubious.

I’ll start with Rockstar. At a corporate level, Rockstar Games will be okay – people are still going to buy the next Grand Theft Auto. But I’m imagining what it’s like to be someone who simply works there, whose efforts for the past who knows how many years have just been squandered across the internet, and who today, tomorrow, and for the foreseeable future, is likely facing a much more intense working environment. Game development is tough work, and even if it weren’t, it’s still work. The idea of somebody stealing something that myself and my colleagues have been working on for years, and then showing it to the whole world while we can only watch from the sidelines, sounds like a nightmare.

Yes, Rockstar Games as an entity will be fine. But there’s a lot of people working there right now – just decent working stiffs, not to be too saccharine about it – who are about to have a terrible day, terrible week, terrible month, just because someone decided that people needed to see some old footage of a game that we already know almost everything about. I can see why some folks