His job is actually not to do that, it is to report on the videogame industry. I don't even understand the concept of "diminish others work", news gets leaked all the time, see how literally every phone, tablet, laptop, CPU, etc., gets leaked ahead of time. There is an incentive to get info for high profile stuff and there is nothing more high profile than GTA6. I also do not see how anybody's work is diminished here.
Yikes.
Was it?
We all know they are making the game. I don't need another worthless schrier telling me that 3 days before the "surprise".
I'm sure he's also heard the release date/ window as well, but didn't want to spoil it. That info would likely have been passed to him, same as the info about the trailer. Especially because release dates nowadays slip all the time, so it wouldn't make a ton of sense to include it in his published report unless he really felt compelled to do so.
Interesting. Does this apply to every way you consume news that you digest, or just video games?
If you can't understand how leaking an announcement is diminishing other work, then we can go ahead and stop the conversation now. There is no take backs here, people have been dedicating years of their professional life for this moment, and it was robbed from them. Is the public somehow better off with this info? Did the gaming community not deserve the Megatron? (Megaton but I'll leave the Megatron reference in)
The leaker could have been a friend, or friend adjacent. Could have been a disgruntled employee who wanted petty revenge for perceived wrongs done to them. Regardless, I doubt it was anyone with a current vested interest in this project
I don't understand?
There are people right now working probably 80 hours a week on the iPhone 16, and it is going to get leaked in a few months by some Chinese guy working on the molds. I don't see people crying for Apple every time this happens, which is every time, despite Apple investing a ton in chasing down leakers and firing them. This is just how it is.
This whataboutism is unproductive and a typical tactic for someone arguing a shitty position. If you believe that someone "just doing their job" alleviates them from the burden of doing the right thing, then you need a history lesson. Respond if you want, there is no debate here and I will not be participating further.
As you can see from looking at a calendar, their output in the last decade has dropped like a rock. GTA Online has consumed clearly many years of development work that would've otherwise gone to making multiple other games. And RDR2 was tumultuous and took forever to finish.
lol whataboutism
You have a newsworthy scoop, you report on it. Period. It's not complicated how it happened. Lots of very odd takes in this thread.
I wouldn't be surprised.
yeah, that things've gotten to this point is completely ludicrous. the advanced announcement of an upcoming trailer for a game?! lemme outa here...
Precisely and the cuck has no self control either.
Exactly.
So? If anything, this should give them even more money to invest into development. So they are certainly not lacking resources.
Because?
People just hate anything and everything about Jason.
No doubt some loser at head office looking for fame and clicks for his anonymous Reddit account. The guy is miserable at his desk being grinded into the ground, he needs some pats on the back for gaming leaks from randoms.
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