According to the session report, it only concerned a temporary claim for the restoration of payments, and the judge has not yet examined the full array of evidence, which amounts to more than 2000 pages. Rockstar stated that it had fired a small group of Discord server users associated with the union for "gross violations of the rules," including insulting management and disclosing confidential information.
Another moment turned out to be key for the players. According to Rockstar, two employees were charged with disclosing a "top secret" and unannounced feature of GTA VI. This is about an online mode designed for up to 32 people to play simultaneously on one server within GTA Online. This is the first concrete fact about the new part's multiplayer.
The dismissed developers claim that the information about the 32-player session became known by accident. According to them, due to vacations in the department, Rockstar was unable to assemble a full team for testing, which indicated the scale of the mode. One of the employees left only one message in Discord — about the absence of signs of processing in the quality control department.
The hearings also discussed that some of the messages were sent during working hours, which, according to Rockstar, gave the company the right to analyze them. The employees' lawyers, in turn, accused the studio of violating its own procedures and illegally accessing long-term union correspondence.