Gamers around the world have been looking forward to GTA6 for eight years, and I am afraid it will be needed again.postponeYes.
Hackers released 90 leaked videos of games at one time, which have been madly transmitted on major platforms, and the official deletion can’t be deleted.
The influence of this matter is not only in the game circle, but also concerned by a large number of mainstream media and commercial media-
The game developer Rockstar Games (R Star for short) involved, whose parent company Take-Two Interactive is a market value.20 billionDollar listed companies.
The series predecessor GTA5 was first launched in 2013, and the cumulative sales volume exceeded by the end of 2021.160 millionIt is popular all over the world and continues to make profits by selling online props.7.6 billionDollar becomesThe most profitable stand-alone game in history.
The sequel GTA6 was developed in 2014 (a new folder was built). Fans waited for 8 years, and the game consoles changed from PS3 to PS5 for a generation, but there was no sign of it.
This time, the leak at least made them confirm that R star was really doing it.
But for game companies and players, more isbad news.
Hackers claim to have mastered the source code of two generations of games and the early test version of the new work, and made it publicly.Blackmail r star：
An ultimatum, if you don’t make me an offer, something very bad will happen.
Hacker Teapot, according to the name he chose when he released the news, Uber, the American taxi software, was hacked last Thursday or he did it.
In the Uber incident, the hacker obtained an employee’s Slack account and the company’s access rights in Amazon and Google Cloud, which has been confirmed by Uber.
In a short period of time, he worked on two major cases in a row. The hacker claimed that he was only 18 years old.
When invading Uber, Teapot only pretended to be a company IT team, sent phishing messages to employees, and defrauded login credentials.
Whether R star was invaded by the same means has not been exposed, but hackers even have the ability to prevent employees from opening the office computer.
To prove himself, Teapot first published a paragraph.Tens of thousands of lines of code, but it has been deleted by the file sharing platform.
This time, he not only mastered the game video and source code, but also claimed that he had it in his hand.Employee information/invoices/contractsWait for more trade secrets.
If no deal is reached, all these will be made public.
According to the leaked content, GTA6Originally planned to be launched in 2023.The in-game story is also set in 2023.
The clearance time of the game is about 75 hours, the development budget is 500 million dollars, and it is estimated that the sales in 24 hours will be 1 billion dollars.
In the latest update, Teapot said that it had contacted Star R, but the two sides failed to reach an agreement.
Go to sleep first, and then watch tomorrow.
Public opinion is in uproar, and the leaked video is more and more "GTA6" because everything is not groundless speculation.
Yesterday evening, Bloomberg reporter asked R Star for verification and confirmed the incident.realness.
It is reported that the leaked video is an early development and unfinished version.
Soon after, Take-Two Interactive, the parent company of R Star, has submitted some requests to remove the GTA6 video.
Better late than never, it’s an unfinished version. According to the current situation, it doesn’t seem so bad (anyway, it just seems).
But this is undoubtedly the nightmare of R Star, and it is the most important leak event it has experienced since its establishment, and it can even be called one of the biggest leaks in the history of the game.
By the way, it’s not the first time that the accident of being leaked has hit R star’s head.
Its other game was officially launched in November 2019.Fistful of dollars 2Once it was like living in a colander.
In the summer of 2019, first, some netizens found the achievement source code of fistful of dollars 2 on the official social club website of R Star;
Only one week later, the code of PC graphics settings in fistful of dollars 2 application program appeared on GTA forum, including display settings, system settings, sound effects settings, overall settings, control settings and presets.
This time, the leakage of the source code made the player find that the PC version has the option of "Super-high-quality preset". It is inferred that the PC version of fistful of dollars 2 refers to DX12 interface files, and it is also found that some options are adjusted through the scroll bar.
It’s not just the PC version that has been leaked repeatedly. In January, 2020, Twitter users discovered the handle diagram of Switch Pro in fistful of dollars 2 through data mining-the game wants to log into the heart of Switch, and the instant time is known all over the world.
In the PPT of Take-Two’s internal announcement plan that broke the news in the first half of this year, the mobile game version of fistful of dollars 2 appeared again.《Gunslinger》. The game screen of Gunslinger has been exposed earlier.
On the other hand, GTA6, which has been grinding a sword for ten years, was robbed by this. According to the character of R star,Postpone the release dateNot impossible.
Looking back at the past game leaks, there is indeed a precedent for delaying the release date.
For example, the first leak that caused a sensation in the game industry in history: in 2003.V’s "half-life 2" leaked..
Half-life 2, which was originally scheduled to be released on September 30th, 2003, never thought that on October 2nd of that year, one third of its source code was stolen, made public and spread on the Internet.
Source code leakage almost killed half-life 2. On October 7th, the official said helplessly that the game would be released because it had to rewrite the stolen part.Postponed to April 2004.
What’s even more irritating is that a few hours later, a game named "half-life 2: Leaked Edition" was circulated on the Internet, and they also carried Trojan horses.
The leak caused v club.$250 millionThe loss of property, but also the itching players angry enough.
I believe that now, no matter developers, gamers or hackers themselves, they are anxiously waiting for what kind of formal response the R-star leadership will give after going to work on Monday morning.
In addition, there is the latest news. A person pretending to be a hacker sold the so-called GTA6 source code in his hand for 5 bitcoins (about 100,000 US dollars, with a contract of 700,000 RMB), and now he has run away.
[1]https://gtaforums.com/topic/985481-gta-6-americas-leak-90-mp4-footagevideos/
[2]https://twitter.com/teapothack
[3]https://www.pcgamer.com/uber-hacked-18-year-old/
[4]https://whatifgaming.com/rockstar-blackmailed-after-gta-6-leaks/
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