• Amuro_eat@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    1 hour

    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.

  • itrealgood@mander.xyzEnglish
    5 hours

    Sorry I live under a rock. How come a videogame is supposed to premiere on a video service?

    • greybeard@feddit.onlineEnglish
      2 hours

      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.

    • Zeddex@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      5 hours

      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.

  • Encrypt-Keeper@lemmy.worldEnglish
    2 hours

    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

  • liinux@pawb.socialEnglish
    7 hours

    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.

    • dudeface@lemmy.worldEnglish
      4 hours

      Would be a bit over the line seeking American court orders if that was the case

    • MrSoup@lemmy.zipEnglish
      6 hours

      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.

      • just another dev@lemmy.my-box.devEnglish
        6 hours

        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.

        • Azzu@leminal.spaceEnglish
          5 hours

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

      • liinux@pawb.socialEnglish
        5 hours

        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

        • MrSoup@lemmy.zipEnglish
          4 hours

          Consider also reputation impact by having your biggest game leaked TWICE

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
      3 hours

      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.

    • CosmoNova@lemmy.worldEnglish
      6 hours

      A rather expensive if not straight up damaging ad campaign if we look at Rockstar‘s lukewarm stock. The crypto angle doesn‘t add up either.

    • BassTurd@lemmy.worldEnglish
      5 hours

      Also Bethesda. Skyrim has been released so many times since 2011.