After the topic heat detonated the full text, the reporter of the news agency confirmed the authenticity of the leak to the R star staff, and Neil Druckmann, the president of the naughty dog, also encouraged the R star developers.
At the beginning of the news leak, some netizens suspected that the leak was false, because there were too many excellent fan-made works in GTA. However, as long as you click on the summarized video and watch it carefully, you can undoubtedly determine the authenticity of the leak. Such a high degree of completion of the game content, no team with a certain scale can do it, and the details of the picture alone can't be so rich. The leaked content is the early testing stage, the AI model, light and shadow details are seriously missing, and there are many action and code debugging videos. At first glance, the materials in the early testing stage of the work are exposed.
The mood gap between doubt and fact.
The source code leakage alone is the lifeblood of R star. Some netizens may not know much about the concept of source code leakage. I will explain it here.
What does the source code leak mean?
This is like the confrontation between the two armies. As a result, one side found that its army size, camp map, route and even personnel scheduling were leaked by spies. What kind of situation is this? The game doesn't die suddenly. It can only be said that R star has strong strength to support it.
If the game screen is skin, then the code is bone. Code controls the lowest logic of the game and is the most important core trade secret. As long as you get the code of the game, anyone can make countless GTA6 by changing skins. At the same time, the leakage of the underlying code may also lead to the theft of the core technology of the company's self-developed game, which will affect not only GTA6, but also other games owned by R Star, which will directly lead to the destruction of a company's business research and development achievements for many years.
In addition, the source code leakage will also expose the defects of the system, the biggest problem is plug-in, private server, criminals, players who know some code may attack the game itself. The most direct thing is that the efforts of many game developers have been burned. Of course, the harm of code leakage is not limited to these, and the most fundamental way to deal with this harm is to push it back.
Event follow-up
According to the news, the leaked information came from R Star Toronto Studio, and the telecommuting employees were leaked during the game testing process. Impressed by the global epidemic, many employees of R Star are in the state of working at home, so the degree of confidentiality is reduced, and it makes sense that computer data is stolen by hackers. This incident should make many game companies reassess the problems brought by telecommuting. Sony has said today that it will no longer allow product testing employees to work remotely from home, and all recruitment requirements have been changed to offline work.
What happened to the employee when he woke up.
Hackers claim to have it? Give him love 5 and 6 source code and assets? And? Give him love 6 beta? And blackmail R star.
It's ridiculous that some people pretend to be "GTA6" and hackers cheat. What's even more ridiculous is that there are really people who are cheated by buying code100000 dollars, which is really outrageous.
This can't help but remind people of an influential game leak in earlier years. Before the release of half-life 2 in V Club in 2003, hackers invaded V Club, stole all the source files and source codes of half-life 2 and published them on the Internet. Dramatically, this hacker, who was only 18 years old, took the initiative to contact V club, hoping to join V club with excellent hacking skills, and finally fell into the net in the cooperation between V club and FBI. At that time, half-life 2 sold 8.6 million sets, which didn't seem to be affected much. However, according to media reports, V Club lost 250 million yuan for this, and the half-life 2, which was finally presented to the players, has been rebuilt.
In recent years, game leaks are common, and even the official explosive game content is speculated for no reason. However, few development contents are exposed at the code level. Most of them are unintentionally published covers and screenshots of game screens by retailers, game official website, cooperative platforms, etc., and the impact is minimal, which is completely different from this leak of GTA6.
The leak of GTA continues to ferment. T2 has already started to delete the video, but there are still leaked news. At present, players can only wait patiently. I can afford to wait for 8 years, so I don't want to wait any longer. I believe that Star R will recover from this incident.