Within the span of about 20 seconds and with only a single Discord ping, Rockstar Video games bought 65,000+ individuals, practically all of whom are ready for Grand Theft Auto 6‘s launch, very excited and then crushed their hopes, dreams, and happiness.
On September 19, at precisely 3:20 p.m. EST, Rockstar Games posted a single message in the GTA Online section of the company’s official Discord server. The message was merely Rockstar Video games acknowledging a bug involving a GTA On-line weekly problem that was alleged to unlock a bit of in-game clothes for individuals who accomplished it, however wasn’t working correctly. Fairly fundamental GTA On-line replace. However for some purpose, Rockstar Games followed that message up with an “@here.” They did this in a server with 68,097 members. Uh oh!
For many who don’t use Discord, dropping “@here” pings everybody within the server channel except they particularly choose out of notifications. And most of the people don’t do this, particularly not in Rockstar’s Discord server, the place determined followers cling to the hope that at any time, the studio might drop a brand new trailer for GTA 6. Rockstar Video games has additionally not likely completed this earlier than. In order that random “@here” immediately brought on round 68,000 followers to freak the fuck out. Making issues worse is that for a lot of, myself included, the notification merely appeared as “Rockstar Games – @here” with no additional context.
I’ll absolutely admit that after I first noticed it, I assumed the corporate was making some huge random announcement about GTA 6. As a substitute, what I discovered after I opened Discord was loads of confused, unhappy, and offended followers who weren’t positive why Rockstar had completed this to all of them. “Why!” “Whattt?” “Shut up!” “WTF?!” “No GTA 6??” “Stop it!” and “HOLY SHIT WHY” had been simply a few of the a whole lot and a whole lot of messages that whizzed by my eyes after I opened Discord shortly after the ping.
I’ve reached out to Rockstar Video games concerning the Discord ping and why it determined to do that. However regardless of the purpose, it gained’t change the truth that for a quick and chaotic second, 65,000+ individuals went wild considering they had been about to observe a brand new GTA 6 trailer or get information of one other delay. Nope. There’s no new trailer or different huge announcement, and GTA 6 is still set to launch in May of next year.
