[colinthompson]

Please don’t click these links or share these videos. As a member of the film/animation industry, hearing about leaks like this absolutely hits me. Please think of the hundreds of artists and programmers who have worked countless hours on this game. They are all heartbroken right now. We can all honor their hard work by not watching this leaked content. Wait til they finish.

[throwaway102233]

no and no. I'm getting mighty sick of this attitude 'pls respect artists! they are all crying right now'.

how come game devs / artists are the only ones that should never have their work seen before they deem it to be 'ready', how many devs in other industries have had to push work to the public before they deem it 'ready'. I personally like having the 'curtain pulled back' so to speak, it's interesting to see the amount of work that goes into making a game / movie / whatever.

[colinthompson]

I’d say this is less “pulling back the curtain” and more brazen theft. But go off.

[yieldcrv]

what, can you elaborate more on why we should:

1) empathize

2) in that specific way

this is a far cry from my initial thought of “don't tell me what to do” so I’m really curious if you can articulate in a way more of us can relate to

[colinthompson]

First and foremost- this content was stolen. You haven’t paid for it. If you saw a stolen car left on the side of the road, would to take it for a joyride?

Secondly, do you think watching these these videos is making anyone at rockstar fired up? Do you think they like this? I believe that almost all of them are deeply saddened by this. Should we celebrate and respect people’s work by making them feel awful?

Lastly I’m not telling anyone what to do. I’m just merely pointing out that this content is not soul-less. It’s built on the backs of people who did not willingly share this material. I think it’s awesome if people are curious, but I think to is incredible disrespectful to execute that curiosity by forcefully stealing something.

[ok_dad]

Why would they be heartbroken? They’ll still get to finish the game. Millions of people will still enjoy it like they did RDR2, GTAV, etc. Personally, I disagree with hacking of this nature, but these days people want to get a sneak preview, so I’m really not sure why the developers would see this as anything other than good, or why they wouldn’t just release previews occasionally so people can see what’s to come. None of this stuff is cutting edge or some sort of industry secret or whatever. I, personally, am more excited for GTAVI than I ever have been now that I’ve seen the amount of depth they seem to be adding to the previous iteration!

[phreeker]

k