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Imagine losing your job because your dumbass son (or his dumbass friend, seen it both ways) leaked this shit.

On that IGN page, there was a 21 questions quiz and I figured out it was The Last of Us Part 2 in 11 questions.

Got a link to what was shown?

Leaked on the WarThunder forum because the kid want to prove something. 😂

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Bro this kid has been playing all the rockstar games before they get released.. he doesn’t even REALIZE how cool of a life he’s got

I hope the employee is not punished, nor the son. Hopefully they look at it as PR? We live in a different time where employee rights have been squashed and there are so many exhausted people working in games. They will make a fortune no matter what and people will be neurotically playing this game 20 years from now. But a father and son punished for even $50-100k could have a potential to ruin the son’s life, prevent college, etc. I’m not in the mood to hear about brutal punitive action.

As someone who works in the game industry. No one cares about keeping stuff safe, it’s not government secrets. Usually companies just tell you that leaks will happen and it doesn’t matter.

If the dad doesn’t lose his job then this was a pt stunt.

It's an image of the alleged map. Gotta be good for at least 5 Mrbossftw videos.

Former employee if this is true.

Honestly why does anyone care? Assuming you've played GTA at all in the past decade you know this one is going to be just as much of a shit-show cash grab as the last one

Butters! You are grounded mister.

Surely the thumbnail for the article should have been Michael’s son Jimmy.

The comments in response to this are hilarious.

Everything from "It's illegal footage!" to "How shitty to have you work ruined by a leak"

It might be illegal for the kid, but once it's out there, it's out there. You're not violating any laws by sharing it. It's a video of game footage. If you were sharing the actual game, yes. Not the case here.

Nothing is "ruined". "Yep, sure looks like GTA alright." That's about it. A random part of the map for a few seconds, big whoop. Any publicity is good publicity, and it's just driving up hype that much more.

In the end: not really a huge deal, other than the kid doing his dad dirty like that.

World keeps on spinning. Leaks wouldn't be that much of an attention grabber if updates were made on a timely basis. It's been 10 years since GTAV, so people want to know WTF is going on. Rockstar didn't even acknowledge its existence until last week.

On the other hand, we have companies like Blizzard who was showing off D4 in the prior years as it was being developed. That's what people want to see.

A former Rockstar employee's son.

Fixed it for you.

Imagine wanting to work for a company where you're one worker in a cog of a thousand that would fire their employees over some minor leak about a game that only serves to help advertise it.

It’s just a computer game. Move on

So you’re saying this is an actual case of “My dad works at Rockstar”?

based Jimmy

Getting your dad fired for tiktok clout.

They should make a mission in the game where you have to hunt down someone who broke an NDA

remember when the apple engineer showed his daughter the iphone x with no regard lol that was fucked

Excited to see

I don't know who's more stupid between the dev leaving his work pc unattended or just showing his son, the dev's son for showing it to his friend or his friend for sharing it on tiktok

I'm surprised this isn't a bigger problem as far as developers who have children telling their friends. Make me wonder if employees at these studios have to sign NDAs.

Maybe it's a marketing scheme to build up even more hype. For a trailer.

Can you imagine? Yeah my dad is making GTAVI but he won’t freaking tell me anything about it

Whatever happens, that kid is a prime example of how shitty this generation is. The kid thought nothing of completely destroying his dad's affluent and very public career with no thought to the impact on his family, just wanted the clout and tiktok views.

Tiktok is a disease and it needs purging. It's quite literally rotting children's brains.

Kids ruin everything

For people who said this is all intentional by Rockstar you’re a fucking idiot…

These leaks are legitimate!, and they’re not planned by Rockstar either

I swear I feel like people who say this kind of shit ride on the short bus 🚌

Man, this kid is going to feel some amount of guilt when he's older.

That kid has already received a legendary old-school classic ass whooping.

Seems like the “employee” was the problem, why would you put that information anywhere near a family member who could do this. Basic information security methods should have prevented this.

Rockstar is releasing a trailer in 2 days. Im sure this 'leak' was an unfortunate accident and not to drum up publicity for the game.

Rockstar should ban his son from ever playing gta 6. That's a fate worse than banishment.

Genius way to pre-promote and hype up the game before you release a trailer. It certainly works well, like the teasers from Marvel and Tom Holland for the new Spiderman or Avengers movies. Free promotion!

Still the parent's fault then 🤷‍♂️

One of the dutch newsgaming website. Says one of the rumors is that there are 3 cities and the map is 2x larger than gta5 map with 75%buildings to go into.

The leaks are fake. There’s no way some kid who is a friend of the devs son has as much info as he does and no way he has access to a dev build.

Where tf is the footage even at. People keep talking about it, but it doesn't exit anywhere.

The leak is mostly the map, doesn't ruin anything

Prob lost dads job, bro about to get the ass whooping of a life time

It his son's friend I believe. This is the first time "My friend's dad works at Rockstar" come true

can you imagine how tense it is in that house?

Anybody have an actual link on that leak? The articles just link out to other articles just talking about it.

lol, they're gonna make you play as a bitch. Man, this woke/modern era of gaming is fucking lame as fuck.

At the end of the day is a leak about a game, not state secrets. Why its such a big deal is beyond me, and I work in the game business.

He called what looked like the Everglades, “grass rivers” 😂

Former employee if true