When I opened up Rockstar’s official X page and saw an image of a black background and white text, I almost had a heartattacking. Turns out, it isn’t GTA 6 being delayed, it’s an official message from Rockstar about their “heartbreaking” week.
Just in case you’ve been living under a rock, an individual or group going by Cyberleek has managed to acquire a playable build of GTA 6 and has been posting clips from the game, while asking people to buy cryptocurrently to help support them and their “commandments” which includes trying to save physical games, ending digital pre-orders and getting rid of day-1 DLC that’s already in the game.
So far, the gameplay has at least been spoiler free, but after allowing people to vote, it seems that might start changing.
Rockstar has now addressed the whole messy situation.
“We know that many of you have been waiting to hear from us regarding the events of the past week,” says Rockstar. ” It would be an understatement to say that having videos of Grand Theft Auto VI gameplay leak in this way has been heartbreaking for our team, and this is obviously now how we intended for you to see the game after all this time.”
Slightly surprisingly, the team also apologised for how long it has taken to get the game ready and to actually show it to the world.
“We are very sorry that everything has taken as long as it has – from getting the game finished (nearly there!) to sharing more details and official gameplay, and providing the community with everything you want to know.”
Rockstar points to tomorrow’s “Extended Look” which will debut exclusively on Netflix, another point of contention for fans who are already miffed about the lack of a physical edition and the extra missions being locked behind the Ultimate Edition of the game.
The “extended look” at GTA 6 will be officially available on Youtube 6-hours later, though. Although I expect it will be available about 5-minutes later given the speed of folk on the Internet.
“We want to thank everyone in the community who has reached out with messages of support this week – your words have meant more to this team than you can imagine. Ultimate, we are making this game for you, and without you, we would not have the provilege of making games,” says Rockstar.
There’s still plenty of people who think this is a massive marketing stunt by Rockstar, but that seems highly unlikely because official subpoena requets have been filed for Take-Two against Microsoft and Discord in an effort to find the identity of Cyberleek.
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