GTA 5 source code leaks online

Post by neffo » Mon, Dec 25, 2023, 5:23 AM UTC

Crosseye_Jack wrote: post #48

andersa wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I don't understand how anyone would ever pay. There is nothing guaranteeing you the hackers actually destroy their copy of the data on payment, so they could just come back and ask you for another payment every few months. Or are we really supposed to believe these criminals would follow some sort of made up honor code?

You are completely right, they are criminals there is nothing stopping them from just dumping the data anyway (or launching another attack later down the road). However the hackers also want to get paid, as soon as they go back on their word no one else will ever pay them. But there is another "maybe" to consider (OP did ask for a brief explanation so I didn't go into all possibilities), did they encrypt the data? If…

Post by vivzkestrel » Mon, Dec 25, 2023, 5:29 AM UTC

ndriscoll wrote: post #50

vivzkestrel wrote: post #10

ubisoft deserves to get the source code for all their old games leaked. One by one they have shut the servers down (quite understandable because of server costs) but offered no ways or means whatsoever to play them alienating the old fans really hard. Some of us have memories of playing the older games which we can never relive again. It should be illegal for a game company to shut an online only game down without of…

Surely server costs for something that's no longer being used much can't be very high? Running an idle ETLegacy server on my desktop uses a whopping 100 MB RAM and 0.02 CPU cores on my 6th gen i5 with the powersave governor on and all cores at 800 MHz. The more obvious motivation is just that they want you to buy their new thing and not have the old one anymore. If the matchmaking server isn't getting requests, you c…

Post by Retr0id » Mon, Dec 25, 2023, 5:31 AM UTC

Post by winrid » Mon, Dec 25, 2023, 5:43 AM UTC

ndriscoll wrote: post #50

vivzkestrel wrote: post #10

ubisoft deserves to get the source code for all their old games leaked. One by one they have shut the servers down (quite understandable because of server costs) but offered no ways or means whatsoever to play them alienating the old fans really hard. Some of us have memories of playing the older games which we can never relive again. It should be illegal for a game company to shut an online only game down without of…

Surely server costs for something that's no longer being used much can't be very high? Running an idle ETLegacy server on my desktop uses a whopping 100 MB RAM and 0.02 CPU cores on my 6th gen i5 with the powersave governor on and all cores at 800 MHz. The more obvious motivation is just that they want you to buy their new thing and not have the old one anymore. If the matchmaking server isn't getting requests, you c…

Post by getwiththeprog » Mon, Dec 25, 2023, 5:47 AM UTC

dehrmann wrote: post #52

BoardsOfCanada wrote: post #5

I assume rockstar didn't pay, so they leaked the source code. Not sure why anything would be delayed because of this.

Why would they pay? It's a 10-year-old game that's the second best selling game of all time. Rockstar made their money, and there isn't anything a competitor could use to gain an advantage. It's almost good because it's free press for GTA VI.