Yesterday Rockstar was hit with several GTA 6 leaks including two clips where the first one showed protagonist Jason playing basketball and another where the player was driving around a beat-up vehicle and crashing into a Truck, along with several in-game screenshots seemingly giving us a glimpse of the enormous world of the game. Now, the leaker who has revealed himself as Cyberleek (could be one person or even a group) has send out a warning to all major publishers, laying out several “commandments” in a manifesto where violating any one of them can make any publisher a target for them.
“Publishers sell licenses and call them purchases,” the manifesto states. “They ship unfinished games and call them living services. They lock content on discs and call it DLC. They kill games and keep the money. Every year anti-consumerism tightens its grip, and every year gamers get less for what they pay.”
Cyberleek has also stated that they’re currently “raising funds for a secret project,” which would eventually be “directed toward the infrastructure needed to strike, as well as the security and protection required to withstand the inevitable corporate counterattacks.”
They also laid out these three commandments for all publishers:
- Commandment I: Thou shalt not sell digital preorders.
- Commandment II: Thou shalt not sell fake single-player DLC (which means locked contents in the disc).
- Commandment III: Thou shalt preserve single-player content.
The leaker has also issued the following warning to any and all publishers who may violate any one of the “Commandments” above: “Cyberleek will not stop until they issue a public statement and apology with a concrete commitment to be better. Words are not enough; restitution is mandatory.”
Even though leaking the contents of an upcoming game is fundamentally wrong, Cyberleek’s “demands” do represent some of the obvious forms of malpractices that goes on in the videogame industry by many publishers. So although the group’s points are somewhat valid, trying to bully the megacorporations is definitely not the best way to do something about those.
