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The internet is on fire with news of leaked, pre-alpha footage of what’s claimed to be GTA 6. We’ve seen a lot of this kind of crap before; with MrBoss and the infamous Sernando regularly click baiting GTA 6 rubbish, most of the time with complete non-news; and often, flat out lies.
…but in this case; yeah, this looks to be the real deal.
I’ve managed to review the footage; which I can’t show here, because TakeTwo are going haaaaaard on the DMCA takedowns, but I’ve reviewed the footage, and as someone who makes a living from software development, this looks… right.
I mean, it could be an elaborate hoax knocked up in the latest Unreal Engine, Unity or Blender; but it really doesn’t feel like it, at this point.
…in addition, according to Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier, staff at Rockstar are devastated; and concerned the leak may disrupt work on the game for a minute, and lead to restrictions on work-from-home arrangements for Rockstar Staff.
…and that could lead to an exodus of Devs and Artists from the company.
As I’ve mentioned before; I develop software. Not this type of software; mainly business’y stuff in PHP, Python and JavaScript; but software none-the-less.
During the plague, with the endless work-from-home arrangements, many of developers and UX/UI guys I work with, moved out of central cities; and either back to their home towns, or a ways away from their main office.
Many of them, still, even after all restrictions have been lifted, only work remotely. Myself included.
Now a lot of these remote workers, if they had to start going back in to the office every day, would simply… not. They’d find other work.
So, right now; most of the hot takes and reactions I’ve seen are rightly concerned with delays around having to tweak the code base, and lock down security.
My concern, is there will be additional delays around a reduced work force; which could also mean going back to the bad-old-days of permanent-crunch. That’s where the Dev Teams, largely, are forced into sweatshop like conditions, working more than 12 hours a day, 6 days a week.
…but we’re expecting an official announcement a bit later on today, so let’s see what Rockstar has to say, in a while.
We’re also now seeing reports of the leaker asking Rockstar for money; with additional leaks more gameplay footage, gameplay features, and the actual source code.
…and that’s really bad; because it will allow bad actors to glean ways to inject their own code. And that means data security problems for end users, and the ability for modders to wreak havoc from more-or-less day one of release.
It could also mean that Rockstar is gazumped; some enterprising dev could release a compiled version of the source code via Bit Torrent, or similar; which would gut potential sales of the game.
And if it’s one thing Rockstar doesn’t like, it’s having it’s money messed with.