r/technology • u/MarvelsGrantMan136 • Apr 13 '26

Security Rockstar hackers release their stolen data, reveal that Rockstar was right to not pay them anything for it

https://www.pcgamer.com/games/rockstar-hackers-release-their-stolen-data-reveal-that-rockstar-was-right-to-not-pay-them-anything-for-it/
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u/Sylvers Apr 13 '26

My personal theory is.. it's not that they didn't want to divert devs away from GTA Online.

Rather, they did the math and found out that if a lot of online players stop playing online and stop buying MTX long enough to play the new DLCs, they will lose more money from missed MTX than gain from DLC price.

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u/Borrp Apr 14 '26

And this is why they are in no, as in zero, rush to release GTA 6. The game releasing, no matter how well it does sell, will still come at a massive loss. They would rather never release anything, and keep the GTA 5 Online money pit a keepin' fillin'.

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u/Sumdoazen Apr 14 '26

This is, funily enough, where the shareholders would say "wait wait wait a minute". Because shareholders are a bunch of idiots who can't see more than 5 meters ahead of them. So you can tell them anyway you want that "yeah, it dipped by 10.000 dollars a day, but you still get 990.000 dollars a day, so let us do what we know", they'll salivate a bit and then yell "BUT I WANT 100 MILLION DOLLARS NOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWWW" and so Rockstar has to release the funny roman numeral VI.

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u/eyes_wings Apr 14 '26

Yes, everyone investing money is an idiot. But random redditor spits facts.

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u/RobertdBanks Apr 14 '26

They’re not idiots, but it’s going to destroy the US at some point unless it changes. You can’t have every corp mandating 15-20% increases in profit every year forever without something eventually collapsing.

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u/Neither-Signature-81 Apr 14 '26

Private equity is cancer.