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[–] 67 points 1 month ago* (25 children)

I still believe the theory that the leaks are part of Rockstar's own advertising campaign, if there a company that know they can milk their own customers aside from Nintendo, it's Rockstar.

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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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  • [–] 30 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    I'd agree if it weren't for the cryptoslop memecoin thing attached to it.

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

    Agree, this is the only weak point of this theory

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  • [–] 7 points 1 month ago (4 children)

    That’s a massive legal risk. I don’t think it’s them.

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  • [–] 8 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    Can you explain how? Who would prosecute this?

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  • [–] 4 points 1 month ago

    The one thing making me slightly doubtful of it being a typical PR stunt is that the leaker has also been advertising their shit-ass memecoin crypto. Unless that crypto has some link to Rockstar, I don't think they're behind it.

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  • [–] 3 points 1 month ago

    It's real. Rockstar loves to release on consoles first so people buy it on console first to play it early and then on PC for better graphics and modding. Leak shows the PC version working just fine so the PC players are more likely to wait for that release.

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  • [–] 42 points 1 month ago (10 children)

    It's a dumb promotional thing, they aren't "Premiere"ing the game, they are are showing gameplay footage. It's an Ad that Netflix users are paying for the privilege to be advertised to.

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    The trailer/extended look has a six hour exclusivity to Netflix before being released on other streaming platforms. I'm not sure if you were asking about the game itself. Supposedly Netflix paid around $100 million for that deal. I don't know if there are any official sources for that info though.

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  • [–] 26 points 1 month ago

    Is this that company that fucks over its workers and union busted?

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

    I wish the intentions of the leaks were because of how rockstar has been about the employees and unionizing but it’s just cynical shit with more cynical shit.

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  • [–] 13 points 1 month ago

    Get rekt lmao, stay mad.

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    [–] 6 points 1 month ago (3 children)

    I mean of course it won’t. Netflix paid them a handsome some of money for that exclusivity and they are certainly contractually obligated to honor it

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  • [–] 1 point 1 month ago

    I heard (somewhere) that there pre-release copies of it instead some Flock cameras; just might have to investigate a number of them to find it. /s

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