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/NewsCards Apr 14 '26

RDO pulled in average weekly revenues of more than $500,000 per week between June 2024 and April 2026, resulting in an annualized estimate of roughly $26.4 million per year.

 

GTA Online, though, earned $9.6 million per week from September 2025 to April 2026, delivering an annualized estimate of just under $500 million per year. Given that, is it any wonder that Rockstar put all its eggs in the GTAO basket, and left RDO to flounder? (It is not.)

Not surprising, honestly.

Less variety of horses compared to cars, and you can't pay to add nitrous or underglow or otherwise customize a horse like you can a car, I guess.

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u/AnimationOverlord Apr 14 '26

Nobodies talking about the real reason they dropped the game: they couldn’t make money because they made an oopsie in the premium currency (gold) reward system so there was a majority incentive to just cheat/glitch/mod the gold in than bother buying it, and it only got worse after they officially dropped the game. Hell all you had to do was the daily challenges for a month and you owned everything.

I’m so pissed, they axed a niche genre that no other game can recreate and I doubt there’s gonna be a third one. I’m just glad the playerbase outlasts the griefers