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Why would they pay? It's a 10-year-old game that's the second best selling game of all time. Rockstar made their money, and there isn't anything a competitor co

Why would they pay? It's a 10-year-old game that's the second best selling game of all time. Rockstar made their money, and there isn't anything a competitor could use to gain an advantage. It's almost good because it's free press for GTA VI.

getwiththeprog 3y ago
Free advertising, very well timed indeed.
serf 3y ago
source leaks damage things aside from profitability. this will just serve as yet another feather in the cap for the exploit/hacking/modding community; and a lot of THOSE people make cash by selling exploits. If rockstar cared about cheating ( they don't ) this would throw a big monkey wrench into that effort, obfuscation is half the battle in a game where book-keeping like an MMO would be performance prohibitive.
dns_snek 3y ago
If they cared about their customers they would pay to stop them (us) getting pwned with numerous 0-day vulnerabilities that no doubt exist in a 15 year old code base that had never seen the light of day.
MikusR 3y ago
1. The game still sells 10+ million copies a year. 2. GTA online brings at least half a billion a year in microtransactions.
- vlakreeh 3y ago
  The vast majority of those sales are for GTA online, which this leak doesn't inherently give you access to. I don't see this leak financially harming Rockstar more than the cost of the presumed ransom, people still have to pay to play GTA online.
  - 93po 3y ago
    Give it time and there will be private servers for the modded client
    - deleted 3y ago
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    - op00to 3y ago
      There are already private servers. There are whole communities built up around role playing in bootleg GTA 5 servers.
      - breakingcups 3y ago
        Rockstar bought the developers of the private server software out and integrated them into their teams, presumably for GTA 6.
      - tentacleuno 3y ago
        For context, one of these is FiveM[0], which is very popular (and if anything, a lot better than the official Online in many ways.) [0]: https://fivem.net/ https://fivem.net/

getwiththeprog 3y ago

Free advertising, very well timed indeed.

serf 3y ago

source leaks damage things aside from profitability. this will just serve as yet another feather in the cap for the exploit/hacking/modding community; and a lot of THOSE people make cash by selling exploits. If rockstar cared about cheating ( they don't ) this would throw a big monkey wrench into that effort, obfuscation is half the battle in a game where book-keeping like an MMO would be performance prohibitive.

dns_snek 3y ago

If they cared about their customers they would pay to stop them (us) getting pwned with numerous 0-day vulnerabilities that no doubt exist in a 15 year old code base that had never seen the light of day.

MikusR 3y ago

1. The game still sells 10+ million copies a year. 2. GTA online brings at least half a billion a year in microtransactions.

vlakreeh 3y ago
The vast majority of those sales are for GTA online, which this leak doesn't inherently give you access to. I don't see this leak financially harming Rockstar more than the cost of the presumed ransom, people still have to pay to play GTA online.
- 93po 3y ago
  Give it time and there will be private servers for the modded client
  - deleted 3y ago
    [deleted]
  - op00to 3y ago
    There are already private servers. There are whole communities built up around role playing in bootleg GTA 5 servers.
    - breakingcups 3y ago
      Rockstar bought the developers of the private server software out and integrated them into their teams, presumably for GTA 6.
    - tentacleuno 3y ago
      For context, one of these is FiveM[0], which is very popular (and if anything, a lot better than the official Online in many ways.) [0]: https://fivem.net/ https://fivem.net/