In turn, Ethan Hirsch damaged Rockstar’s reputation, wasted company resources paying an incompetent management and failed projects, and blocked the core team from making progress. Most baffling of all was hiring the alt:V team.
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Once the alt:V team was hired, internal information started leaking. Rockstar’s plan to integrate Battleye was leaked around April/May 2024, months before release. The exact launch date leaked a week in advance. Details about the GTA V Gen9 update also surfaced.
Later, it was confirmed that alt:V members were behind the leaks. It’s presumed that Ethan Hirsch kept this information to himself and never reported it to Rockstar’s higher-ups.
Hirsch’s dream project, ROME, supposedly meant to replace FiveM, is led by ex-GTA:MP team members.
They prioritized fake PR over actual progress, attempting to create a GTA MP mod 3 times, only to abandon each attempt. ROME, a R* product driven by Hirsch, is their 4th attempt.
FiveM is in its worst technical state ever—critical exploits, bug reports, and feature requests are ignored. No new features, no AC improvements, constant CNL outages, and the most broken title update support in its history.
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Those alt:V members were also directly responsible for the December 2023 public leak of GTA V’s source code. Proof in the report.
You may even say this is bigger than the Big Score from GTA V’s story.
They prioritized fake PR over actual progress, attempting to create a GTA MP mod 3 times, only to abandon each attempt. ROME, a R* product driven by Hirsch, is their 4th attempt.
FiveM is in its worst technical state ever—critical exploits, bug reports, and feature requests are ignored. No new features, no AC improvements, constant CNL outages, and the most broken title update support in its history.