The History of GTA Leaks

as of lately leaks have been heavily affecting Rockstar Games with major GTA 6 leaks practically forcing Rockstar to officially acknowledge the game almost a year before its planned reveal and the GTA 6 trailer being released almost a day early due to them this whole situation makes me think about what measures Rockstar will take to try and prevent more leaks in the future and while the content stream revolves around GTA 6 at the moment and I can easily Garner views by making a low effort speculation video I'd prefer to dive into the history of leaks that Rockstar has suffered from before the GTA 6 era and just as a little disclaimer if you were expecting me to speak on the GTA 6 leaks at all or show footage this isn't the video for you and I recommend you go find a different one and just in case I need to say it these are all real leaks that Rockstar suffered however if you'd like a more funny and light-hearted take on this approach I'd recommend you go look at Badger goodger's video about fake GTA leaks now that's enough with the intro let's just go ahead and get right into it GTA 4 leaks at e306 Peter Moore the vice president of Microsoft's entertainment business division would announc GTA 4 with a tattoo and the game's logo on his shoulder the trailer was not released for almost another year in March of 2007 people had plenty of time for speculation and for small details to get out one of the only legitimate leaks I could find on GTA 4 was made by user GTA 4 on the GTA Forums on March 11th 2007 this was about 2 weeks prior to the World ride reveal of GTA 4 in its trailer I'm going to read the post in its entirety now just so you have an idea of what it was like browsing these forums back in the late 000s and I'm going to refer to deep throat GTA 4 as Mr throat just so I don't have to say his full name throughout this entire section now in the wise words of Mr throat Jin I have some information that may be huge I'm about to relate to you an incident that occurred this week this information I'm about to pass to you could cost me my job if I was found out passing it on hence the nickname on Thursday 8th of March 2007 at the bequest of a client I was conducting a counter surveillance task along with my team in direct response to the repeated sightings of susp supicious vehicles in the vicinity of the client's property located in Manhattan New York City shortly after identifying the vehicle in question the team leader decided a direct confrontation of the occupants was the most expeditious Way Forward I along with two others confronted the three male occupants of a 2005 GMC Suburban the Suburban was configured with an array of computer equipment in the back a substantial amount of digital capture devices were mounted on the dash and the antenna located on the roof was similar to the small tapestry antenna that I have seen previously on vehicles for tracking purpos the driver of the Suburban produced credentials that showed he was an employee of Rockstar Games my two other team members were satisfied and didn't realize the significance of the event I opened the passenger side door and looked into the rear of the truck where one of the males shut down several LCD screens but my heart skipped a beat as I looked at the folder on the desk which was emblazed with the four official logo with the Manhattan skyline clearly shown within the letters I tried to appear as calm as possible and walked away from the vehicle make of it what you will deep through now now at first you may be thinking this has no substantial evidence aside from the fact that the location for GTA 4 was New York City and while sure this guy could have just got an incredibly lucky guess only a few weeks before the reveal trailer I personally believe this is a real leak obviously the story itself isn't but Mr Thro is more credible than he may seem at first glance this wasn't Mr thro's first ever Rockstar related post on the internet to get into specifics back in the day when the San Andreas hot coffee Scandal first happened Mr throat was in the midst of a discussion on the mod and the feature itself with a Gamespot writer the article is now deleted and I couldn't find a backup but thanks to GTA 4 amuser JC the MC the transcript is saved in the article a Gamespot writer and Mr Thro have a conversation about the hot coffee mod the Gamespot writer asked Mr Thro who to contact to get more information and Mr Thro suggests contacting the person who made the mod and getting clarification Mr Thro expresses his personal opinion that hot coffee was given out to the modder as a marketing Ploy for San Andreas after the chat the Gamespot writer claims that Mr Thro is AUST trusted Source along with the modder who reimplemented the hot coffee miname this is the only seemingly realistic leak I could find for GTA 4 and after digging around for a few hours and asking several older members of the community a lot of them agree that there were no vast and confirmed GTA 4 leaks I continued looking and the only one that I personally believe could have been real as Mr throats I have no personal knowledge or recollection of any leaks as I was only around 2 years old at the time of these and with that being said this is the only comprehensive forign post from Mr throat with any leak substance to it to get to anything else we have to wait a bit longer to get to 2008 and when we do get to 2008 there isn't anything that's particularly exciting a Dutch Xbox Forum released two screenshots from GTA 4's multiplayer mode and a couple of other new screenshots that the public hadn't yet seen but this site is long since defunct and finding anything about it was tough however I was able to scrape through and find a couple of these shots and that's all we'd see until just a month later on April 25th approximately 4 days before the game's official release when the entire GTA 4 ISO would leak online Torrance allowed people with Modded Xbox 360s to download and play the game for free almost a week early though that's not surprising as many physical copies are usually obtained a week in advance at most major retailers and workers can steal them and rip the files and upload them online or just show early gameplay which is what mainly happens it's kind of a rarity for these files to pop up online so early and that just about does it for our section on GTA 4 leaks just before we move on I'd like to thank you for sticking around so far it really means a lot now let's get to the next game in the series where a lot more leaks happened and we saw a lot of interesting things GTA 5 leaks this game for Rockstar was full of leaks as opposed to GTA 4 the first idea of a leak we heard was in July of 2010 when Euro gamer reached out to certain sources and said sources confirmed that Rockstar had teams scouting in Hollywood though at the time no one knew if that was for the GTA series or not but looking back we can obviously say it was indeed for GTA 5 V just a couple of months later in March of 2011 we would see possibly the biggest GTA leak so far game Watchers would leak Rockstar's casting call under the code name rush and while this wasn't a gameplay leak or anything of that magnitude it's quite possibly my favorite just because you get to see some possible beta names for characters like Michael's name could have been Albert the Silva and Trevor's name could have been Simon almost a year later on October 25th Rockstar would officially announce GTA 5 on Twitter Kotaku would then confirm that Los Angeles would be the setting for the game and that there would most likely be multiple playable characters and as we know we ended up with three protagonists in the form of Michael Franklin and Trevor within the coming weeks Rockstar would release the GTA 5 trailer and information would be scarce as Rockstar was radio silent on the situation multiple leaks would crop up throughout this time but they all turned out to be fake and almost a year later to the day on October 28th 2012 a Polish site would Le promotional art and the release date with the tagline of spring of 2013 I didn't see the official post as I'm assuming it was nuked but the kotaco article is still archived with a pest control headline so I'm assuming it was this artwork right here then a couple of months later in August of 2013 GTA 5 would be available for pre-order on the PlayStation store but Sony had messed up and some people were able to download files and the game's entire soundtrack was leaked along with the main theme no gameplay leaks exist from this incident as it was mainly just audio files and then Sony put out a statement that was basically just saying yo chief my fault sorry for that see you guys in September though and then on September 10th just 7 days before the game's release the map would leak in the strategy guide and that's as far as we have for any pre-release leaks obviously with GTA online being constantly evolving data miners would be able to leak some things from online but let's be so real here anything after like 2017 no one cared about and I mean that's the consensus I was able to see at least and with all this being said that's all the leaks I was able to put together obviously I'm assuming there's more leaks out there there at least for GTA 4 the GTA V leaks are pretty well documented but it feels like anything on the internet from pre-2010 is hard to find but I'm sure anyone who's a part of these types of discussions or any older members of the GTA forums watch this video they'll be able to put some more info in the comments and if I can get enough I'll make an updated video on the topic with corrections or more so just like an Extended Cut obviously this just covered the GTA franchise in the modern era I didn't look at any of the 3D games but maybe one day we can Circle back I intend to do more videos like this in the future but focusing on non GTA series like Red Dead leaks which we saw a few of and maybe compiling some stuff on agent but those videos wouldn't be separated they'll be in the same video as like a oneoff from this one and actually as I was making this video the source code for GTA 5 got leaked and there is just a treasure Trove of new leaks in there for not only GTA 5 but agent GTA 4 and red dead but I'm sure you know I can't cover those simply because of what content they have I'll wait a few months and see how the water is and then maybe I'll do a deep dive into those but as it stands it's too risky of a video to make apparently but best believe I'm sitting on these and if I can do it without getting dmca I will so that's something to look out for in the future now this has been my first time making a video like this so I'm only going to get better and if you enjoyed it hit that like button if you're interested in seeing more content like this subscribe because you know what's coming sources for the info in this video will be found in the description below thank you guys for watching this has been ethis and I'll see you in the next one hopefully

Channel: Aethus

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Length: 9min 26sec (566 seconds)

Published: Tue Dec 26 2023