• Amuro_eat@lemmy.blahaj.zoneEnglish
    3 hours

    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
    7 hours

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

    • greybeard@feddit.onlineEnglish
      4 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.

              • 3abas@lemmy.worldEnglish
                16 minutes

                No one says subscribe from to mean unsubscribe. I tried to make it make sense, but it’s too much work to understand when no one says it, and everyone calls it unsubscribe. To subscribe is to scribe your name, sub (at the bottom) of a document. That is, to enter the subscription agreement. You don’t sign a new agreement to exit the previous one, you just exit it (stop paying). You undo the contract, you don’t pay and they don’t give service, we say you unsubscribe.

    • Zeddex@sh.itjust.worksEnglish
      7 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
    4 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
    8 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
      5 hours

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

    • MrSoup@lemmy.zipEnglish
      8 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
        7 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
          7 hours

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

          • Dave@lemmy.nzEnglish
            19 minutes

            Andre the Giant has been dead for over 30 years so I’m not aure he can thow as far as you’re expecting.

      • liinux@pawb.socialEnglish
        6 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
          6 hours

          Consider also reputation impact by having your biggest game leaked TWICE

    • 🇰 🌀 🇱 🇦 🇳 🇦 🇰 🇮 @pawb.socialEnglish
      5 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
      8 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
      7 hours

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