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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.
Would be a bit over the line seeking American court orders if that was the case
I wouldn't put it past them.
I'd agree if it weren't for the cryptoslop memecoin thing attached to it.
Agree, this is the only weak point of this theory
Nah, the world has gone too conspiracy brained.
Orrrrr it is a really strong one... Because you might think they would never use a coin so they use it anyway...
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.
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.
But it turns out you are actually Andre the Giant, so you can throw them very far and thus trust them a lot.
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
Consider also reputation impact by having your biggest game leaked TWICE
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.
HAHA! Jokes on them, I never intended to buy it!
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.
That’s a massive legal risk. I don’t think it’s them.
Can you explain how? Who would prosecute this?
They got subpoenas for other companies, that would be illegal if it was them all along
And companies never do illegal things
The shareholders likely would want an explanation.
IRS wouldn’t be too happy about the cryptocurrency stuff either.
Also Bethesda. Skyrim has been released so many times since 2011.