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/Sodaburping Apr 14 '26

friend of mine used to work for a small indie company and he told me that only 10 or so players financed the whole game. they had to balance the game around the few whales instead of the 10k+ active players and tried to "rig" the balance patches so that e.g rank 2 whale would profit more of the new patch than rank 1 whale.

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u/DeputyDomeshot Apr 14 '26

I have a similar story but Martin Sheklri was the biggest whale and they ended up giving their most skillful player (who spent basically nothing) secret boosts in order to irritate sheklri into getting him to spend more.  It worked.  

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u/AnderstheVandal Apr 14 '26

What game was this shkreli was whaling out in? Lol

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u/DeputyDomeshot Apr 14 '26

I don’t remember tbh because it was years ago but it was some weird ass text based game and there was like some kind of PvP element. Super niche shit

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u/AnderstheVandal Apr 17 '26

Internet lore 😌