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Rockstar reportedly furious by GTA 6 leaks and has no idea how it happened, but won’t change Netflix premiere date (www.dexerto.com)
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[–] 43 points 1 month ago* (8 children)

Why should it be an advertising campaign? Using a made-up name, filling videos with watermarks and pushing a crypto meme coin?

I don't even see how this could be something good for them. They are going to officially show it in a week and I don't think they need more hype than that they already have.

These are just people who are trying to make money with crypto.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 month ago (5 children)

    The very first GTA was promoted through "outrage" that they stirred up themselves. I trust their marketing department about as far as I can throw them.

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  • [–] 9 points 1 month ago (2 children)

    But it turns out you are actually Andre the Giant, so you can throw them very far and thus trust them a lot.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago) (1 child)

    Andre the Giant has been dead for over 30 years so I'm not sure he can throw as far as you're expecting.

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  • [–] 6 points 1 month ago

    Well that's what you think, he's actually just been in hiding in a cave in northern Kazakhstan to escape all that public attention. And now he's on Lemmy because he did actually get a little lonely.

    My mind is a funny place.

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  • [–] 2 points 1 month ago

    They still market with outrage, but not like this I'm pretty certain. The Netflix thing I believe is on purpose to generate outrage. They had people posting all over complaining that it's behind a paywall. You don't get marketing that good, even if you pay for it. The leak though? It doesn't feel like something they'd do.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago (1 child)

    The issue with this theory is the crypto scam, but aside from that I would guess that this way they can keep their players engaged with the game since they don't like sharing anything at all and gamers want everything as soon as possible

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