[MikusR]

1. The game still sells 10+ million copies a year.

2. GTA online brings at least half a billion a year in microtransactions.

[vlakreeh]

The vast majority of those sales are for GTA online, which this leak doesn't inherently give you access to. I don't see this leak financially harming Rockstar more than the cost of the presumed ransom, people still have to pay to play GTA online.

[93po]

Give it time and there will be private servers for the modded client

[op00to]

There are already private servers. There are whole communities built up around role playing in bootleg GTA 5 servers.

[tentacleuno]

For context, one of these is FiveM[0], which is very popular (and if anything, a lot better than the official Online in many ways.)

[0]: https://fivem.net/

[breakingcups]

Rockstar bought the developers of the private server software out and integrated them into their teams, presumably for GTA 6.