• liinux@pawb.social
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    12 days ago

    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.

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      12 days ago

      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.

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        12 days ago

        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

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          12 days ago

          Consider also reputation impact by having your biggest game leaked TWICE

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      12 days ago

      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.

    • 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.

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      11 days ago

      It’s real. Rockstar loves to release on consoles first so people buy it on console first to play it early and then on PC for better graphics and modding. Leak shows the PC version working just fine so the PC players are more likely to wait for that release.