Rockstar devs react to Grand Theft Auto 6 trailer leak: 'This f***ing sucks'
It's not fun for developers when trailers leak early for their games, but I imagine even less so when your studio has something new to share as rarely as Rockstar does. The studio planned to premiere the first GTA 6 trailer tomorrow morning. People were so excited about it that thousands were sitting around in the livestream chat 24 hours ahead of time to get hyped about the game. Then, earlier today, the full trailer leaked onto X with an ugly crypto watermark glazed over the center of the screen.
This forced Rockstar's hand: The leaker's account was suspended, but rather than let that pixellated, partially obscured version of the trailer circulate for the next 12 hours, Rockstar went ahead and posted the official trailer on YouTube early. It's a good trailer, but some Rockstar employees are annoyed that their big reveal was moved forward by a leak, and I can't blame them.
«This fucking sucks,» wrote Rockstar senior gameplay animator Javier Altman on X. «I was hoping to watch this for the first time tomorrow along with my fellow teammates and coworkers. I feel we deserved that moment,» he wrote in a follow up.
Graphics programmer Angel Ortiz is holding off on watching the trailer until he can see it with the people «who worked so fucking hard to make it happen.»
Rockstar senior programmer Connor was a little louder with their disappointment. «FUCKING SERIOUSLY???» they wrote.
«Sorry for the rage,» Connor continued in a followup, «but the trailer leak is just so disheartening. I was really looking forward to watching the premier with everyone. A lot of people were.»
Development operations director Alex Menasche expressed a similar sentiment, but chose the visual medium of emojis:
Senior gameplay designer Phil Beveridge
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