GTA Trilogy: The Definitive Edition Officially Announced - Coming Soon

[Violet]

1 minute ago, Zerdical said:

i still think they are saving all the "official" info for october 22nd

as much as you're probably right, i don't want to believe this. waiting that long is torture!! i need something to cheer me up, it's been a terrible year

[Havi]

4 minutes ago, Zerdical said:

i still think they are saving all the "official" info for october 22nd, it lands on a friday which is usually when rockstar drops news (gta online dlc announcements, trilogy announcement all came on fridays). I think on the 22nd we will get a massive amount of info with a release date, screen shots, gameplay trailer, maybe a comparison? and much more. But i dont see it releasing in october. I see it releasing a month after the 22nd

 

I can see them include a transition in the official Trilogy trailer. Would be cool seeing how the games are transformed

Edited October 17, 2021 by Havi

[MinerSkills]

27 minutes ago, mathhead said:

Maybe Trilogy is coming to all cloud platforms too

Wasn't the trilogy in the geforce now leak as well?

[Mach1bud]

10 minutes ago, Thomas Cavendish said:

I really enjoy hearing about these revolutionary marketing campaigns, where a multi-billionaire company with the most succesful product of the history of entertainment ever, choose to leak logos, backgrounds and codes hidden on the internet for a few forums to discover.

 

Yeah, the leaks happen every single time totally on accident. Lol.

 

You don't see the bigger picture.

 

Leaks happen. 

Leaks get posted on forums. 

Youtubers get content from forums.

 

And ta da, millions of people see the Leaks via YouTube videos. 

 

Marketing without $1 spent by R*. You are right, they are a multi-billion dollar company, because they do things a certain way. This way.

[BroomstickFanatic]

28 minutes ago, Spider-Vice said:

Here are all the possible selections for the Support site, looks like there's some platforms that aren't even used like the Kindle lol.

Can't wait to play GTA on my wii!

[BS_BlackScout]

I was actually glad it leaked. I was already feeling a bit upset that Rockstar didn't share anything. Alloc8or made the day for a lot of people

[videotech_]

I'd say this is a very controlled marketing plan. Usually in most cases Rockstar intends to hash URLs of content that they don't want people to see. However, in this case with the Trilogy, we can easily make guesses with URL names. Plus, no screenshots seem to be up on their servers so this is definitely part of marketing. Rockstar well knows we'd dig through almost everything 

Edited October 17, 2021 by VideoTech

[Violet]

1 minute ago, VideoTech said:

I'd say this is a very controlled marketing plan. Usually in most cases Rockstar intends to hash URLs of content that they don't want people to see. However, in this case with Trilogy, we can easily make guesses with URL names. Plus, no screenshots seem to be up on their servers so this is definitely part of marketing. Rockstar well knows we'd dig through almost everything 

if they didn't want us to see something, it wouldn't be up at all - security through obscurity is no security at all! no matter how small the chance, we could guess hashes or reverse engineer how they calculate them.

 

this is a multi-billion dollar tech company. they definitely knew/know we'd find stuff, and i totally agree that it's part of the marketing / hype game

[assian]

35 minutes ago, Spider-Vice said:

Here are all the possible selections for the Support site, looks like there's some platforms that aren't even used like the Kindle lol.

  Reveal hidden contents

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category .wizard .next .path a i.playstation4 {
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category .wizard .next .path a i.oculus {
category .wizard .next .path a i.kindle {
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Oh Damn! Gotta revive my PSP.

[eyman]

I'm guessing we can all agree that this week is THE week. I'm going to quote this post on Friday night to see what page number we are on.

Prediction: 892

[Demysted]

29 minutes ago, Zerdical said:

this week???!!! did i miss some new leak?

They're just joking, but also, it's the 20th anniversary.

[Violet]

Just now, eyman said:

Prediction: 892

way too high, 500. if i'm closer, you all owe me realistic steak

[CynicalMexican]

6 minutes ago, VideoTech said:

I'd say this is a very controlled marketing plan. Usually in most cases Rockstar intends to hash URLs of content that they don't want people to see. However, in this case with the Trilogy, we can easily make guesses with URL names. Plus, no screenshots seem to be up on their servers so this is definitely part of marketing. Rockstar well knows we'd dig through almost everything 

 

Yeah this is what I had thought. Literally the bare minimum and boom, everyone is talking about Rockstar.

[Thomas Cavendish]

11 minutes ago, Mach1bud said:

Leaks happen.

Exactely. 

That is really the answer. Leaks happen.

[eyman]

1 minute ago, imViolet said:

way too high, 500. if i'm closer, you all owe me realistic steak

Every pixel in that trailer will get analysed no doubt. I just hope the mods dont lock it before Friday night.

[Violet]

Just now, Thomas Cavendish said:

That is really the answer. Leaks happen.

not in this manner - any competent programmer knows that security through obscurity is no security whatsoever. this is a billion dollar company we're talking about, not an indie studio. they are very careful about what they let slip, and that goes for what gets pushed to public codebases as well. otherwise we'd probably know a lot more about gta 6 and agent haha

[Mach1bud]

5 minutes ago, eyman said:

I'm guessing we can all agree that this week is THE week. I'm going to quote this post on Friday night to see what page number we are on.

Prediction: 892

 

I bet by Friday, we will be clear over 1000 pages.

[MISSINGSTRING]

500+ pages of self blueballing

[videotech_]

GTAForums is always so fun when we're only minutes away from the announcement. You don't get that feeling on Twitter

[Don Maximus Meridius]

I wonder if we'll have as many posts per second on the day this trilogy is released as on the day of heists update, whoever was here that day remembers how big the hype was.

[Starbeth]

we will be on page 420 on friday, october 22nd, 8am pacific standard time 

[Thomas Cavendish]

13 minutes ago, Mach1bud said:

 

Yeah, the leaks happen every single time totally on accident. Lol.

 

You don't see the bigger picture.

 

Leaks happen. 

Leaks get posted on forums. 

Youtubers get content from forums.

 

And ta da, millions of people see the Leaks via YouTube videos. 

 

Marketing without $1 spent by R*. You are right, they are a multi-billion dollar company, because they do things a certain way. This way.

If they just officialy announce or release the info (that are already there, no $ involved), it would be posted on forums and youtubers would get content the same way. Even more trustful.
Makes no sense "to pretend" a leak something.

Imagine a marketing meeting in a multi-bilionaire company, the boss start "this is the moment, we release 3 products per decade, what are we going to do to promote???" and someone raise his hand and "hey, what about faking a leak, let's pretend some backgrounds leaked from our laucher???"

[Violet]

Just now, Thomas Cavendish said:

Imagine a marketing meeting in a multi-bilionaire company, the boss start "this is the moment, we release 3 products per decade, what are we going to do to promote???" and someone raise his hand and "hey, what about faking a leak, let's pretend some backgrounds leaked from our laucher???"

the fact that you're talking so much about this proves the effectiveness of a fake leak strategy - nobody would be doing anything except rioting for new information right now if not for the fact that we have a reliable "leak" stream. now, we have dozens of people in the core community glued to the forums and dissecting the entire website, and many more people outside of it looking for information somewhat regularly.

[Thomas Cavendish]

8 minutes ago, imViolet said:

not in this manner - any competent programmer knows that security through obscurity is no security whatsoever. this is a billion dollar company we're talking about, not an indie studio. they are very careful about what they let slip, and that goes for what gets pushed to public codebases as well. otherwise we'd probably know a lot more about gta 6 and agent haha

if 6 and agent would be released next few days, we would probably know a lot more, for sure...  because....  "leaks happen"

[Violet]

1 minute ago, Thomas Cavendish said:

if 6 and agent would be released next few days, we would probably know a lot more, for sure...  because....  "leaks happen"

might i remind you that the first leak involving this happened before it was even properly announced. that is dripping with intent, R* are no strangers to data miners. see: hot coffee, and the rdr2 pc launcher leaks

[videotech_]

2 minutes ago, imViolet said:

the fact that you're talking so much about this proves the effectiveness of a fake leak strategy - nobody would be doing anything except rioting for new information right now if not for the fact that we have a reliable "leak" stream. now, we have dozens of people in the core community glued to the forums and dissecting the entire website, and many more people outside of it looking for information somewhat regularly.

It's a pretty smart f*cking strategy.

 

>Someone leaks something on GTAF

>More engagement in the community 

>Media outlets cover it 

>Engagement within the industry

>Everyone expresses excitement   

[Thomas Cavendish]

3 minutes ago, imViolet said:

the fact that you're talking so much about this proves the effectiveness of a fake leak strategy - nobody would be doing anything except rioting for new information right now if not for the fact that we have a reliable "leak" stream. now, we have dozens of people in the core community glued to the forums and dissecting the entire website, and many more people outside of it looking for information somewhat regularly.

it proves nothing, my friend.
Obviously a leaked info from a very anticipated release will be talked.
A multi-billionaire company would rely their marketing campaign on leaking background, logos, and codes??? 
Paint three buildings in L.A. or pretend to leak a background??? what a doubt! One of the greatest marketing cases of our time. 

[Violet]

1 minute ago, Thomas Cavendish said:

A multi-billionaire company would rely their marketing campaign on leaking background, logos, and codes???

they're not basing the entire campaign on it - they're basing the lead-up on it. the traditional billboards and bus advertisements are yet to come

[Mach1bud]

Just now, Thomas Cavendish said:

it proves nothing, my friend.
Obviously a leaked info from a very anticipated release will be talked.
A multi-billionaire company would rely their marketing campaign on leaking background, logos, and codes??? 
Paint three buildings in L.A. or pretend to leak a background??? what a doubt! One of the greatest marketing cases of our time. 

 

Mate this isn't even close to the first time stuff has leaked.

 

Literally for a decade now, almost everything they have done has leaked ahead of time. Every game. Every update. They have almost all leaked.

 

If they wanted it to stop, they would have stopped it. It's completely on purpose.

[Thomas Cavendish]

6 minutes ago, imViolet said:

might i remind you that the first leak involving this happened before it was even properly announced. that is dripping with intent, R* are no strangers to data miners. see: hot coffee, and the rdr2 pc launcher leaks

and???

it proves they let the it leaks instead of announcing it?
data miners exist. fact. leaks happen. fact.