--- title: "A GTA 6 Dev Told Schreier to Stay Away and Then Vanished" canonical_url: "https://www.gtaboom.com/a-gta-6-dev-told-schreier-to-stay-away-and-then-vanished-57b7" markdown_url: "https://www.gtaboom.com/a-gta-6-dev-told-schreier-to-stay-away-and-then-vanished-57b7.md" site_name: "GTA BOOM" site_url: "https://www.gtaboom.com" published_at: "2026-04-26T14:17:44Z" updated_at: "2026-04-26T14:17:45Z" section: "news" language: "en-US" primary_category_slug: "gta-news-053f" category_slugs: - "gta-news-053f" - "grand-theft-auto-6-588b" - "gta-6-news-7d1f" tags: - "GTA 6" - "Insider" authors: - name: "Ray Ampoloquio" url: "https://www.gtaboom.com/authors/ray-ampoloquio" hero: url: "https://media.gtaboom.com/variants/1920/media/images/0d/4d/a-gta-6-dev-told-schreier-to-stay-away-and-then-vanished-1.jpg" alt: "A Rockstar employee publicly told the most credible journalist in gaming to stay away from GTA 6." width: 1950 height: 1097 caption: "A Rockstar employee publicly told the most credible journalist in gaming to stay away from GTA 6." word_count: 1081 reading_time_minutes: 6 --- > [!INFO] TL;DR Summary A Rockstar Games lead character artist publicly told Jason Schreier to stop "poking his nose" into the company, then deactivated his X account after the post spread. Saikat Koley, a lead character artist at [Rockstar Games](/rockstar-games-f280 "Rockstar Games"), replied to a fan account's post on X calling out one of the most well-sourced journalists covering [_Grand Theft Auto 6_](/grand-theft-auto-6-588b "Grand Theft Auto VI"). > We don't want him poking his nose into our company and project. The "him" was Jason Schreier, the Bloomberg journalist who has covered _GTA 6's_ [development more aggressively](/insider-hints-at-another-potential-gta-6-release-date-delay-d0bb "Jason Schreier Was One of the First to Hint at the Second GTA 6 Delay") and more accurately than any other reporter in the industry. The fan post that prompted the response featured a photo of Schreier with the caption: "Waiting for this guy to finally drop something good about _GTA 6_." Koley's reply was blunt, dismissive, and unambiguous. Then Koley deactivated his X account. The reply is gone. The internet, as always, has the receipts. For anyone who has not been following the relationship between [Rockstar Games](/rockstar-games-f280 "Rockstar Games") and Schreier, this is a story that goes back years and explains why _GTA 6's_ marketing has been so tightly controlled. Let me walk through the timeline. Date | Event | What Happened --- | --- | --- November 8, 2023 | Schreier leaks the trailer announcement | Schreier reported that Rockstar would reveal a GTA 6 trailer in early December, hours before the official announcement November 8, 2023 | Sam Houser considers delaying | According to insider Tez2, Houser wanted to push the announcement back by a week "just to screw with Schreier" but was talked out of it by Aaron Garbut, Rob Nelson, and Jennifer Kolbe December 4, 2023 | Trailer 1 leaks early | The trailer was uploaded ahead of schedule after a leak, Rockstar released it officially the same day January 2026 | Schreier's content-complete comments | Schreier said on the Button Mash podcast that GTA 6 was "not content complete" and developers were still finalizing missions January 2026 | Schreier clarifies | Schreier said on Bluesky he was not predicting a delay and that November "feels more real" than earlier targets April 2026 | Saikat Koley's reply | Lead character artist publicly says Rockstar does not want Schreier "poking his nose" into the company April 2026 | Account deactivation | Koley deactivates his X account after the reply goes viral Jason Schreier is, by any reasonable measure, the most important journalist covering the games industry. He is a three-time New York Times bestselling author. His investigations into crunch culture at studios, including Rockstar itself, led to meaningful industry conversations about labor practices. Studios either fear or respect him because he is accurate, well-sourced, and willing to publish what they do not want published. By all accounts, he's a true journalist. Rockstar's frustration with Schreier is also understandable. He [pulled the rug](/is-gamings-biggest-secret-about-to-be-unveiled-at-the-game-awards-f31b "Jason Schreier Leaks GTA 6 Trailer Announcement") under Rockstar's November 2023 trailer announcement. The studio [had planned](/brace-for-the-next-gta-game-trailer-thats-been-years-in-making-ce41 "Rockstar Had Other Original Plans for GTA 6 Trailer 1") to reveal the _GTA 6_ trailer date as part of the Rockstar Games 25th anniversary celebration, and Schreier published the news hours before the official post went live. The team that had worked on _GTA 6_ for years, keeping the game secret amid the most significant security breach in gaming history, watched a journalist steal the moment from them. Then the [trailer itself](/grand-theft-auto-6-first-trailer-b9b8 "Grand Theft Auto 6 First Trailer") leaked early on December 4, [forcing Rockstar to release it ahead of schedule](/gta-6-trailer-the-inside-story-of-gamings-biggest-leak-4c77 "GTA 6 Trailer Released After Leak"). Two massive leaks in less than a month are too much for most, even for Rockstar, which doesn't really abide by anyone's rules or timeline. So, when [Sam Houser](/sam-houser-eaf3 "Sam Houser"), according to Tez2's account on GTAForums, [wanted to delay](/rockstar-games-almost-delayed-the-first-official-gta-6-trailer-announcement-cacb "Sam Houser wanted to mess with Jason Schreier") the November announcement by a week, specifically to undermine Schreier's credibility, it was a personal, petty, and human reaction to these leaks. Thankfully, other executives probably talked him down, understanding that you don't punish a journalist by punishing your own fans. [Embed \(twitter\)](https://x.com/gtavi_countdown/status/2048217903879827859) This brings us back to Koley, a developer, presumably proud of his work on _GTA 6_ and frustrated by years of leaks that have stolen the studio's ability to reveal its own game on its own terms, saw a post about Schreier and said what he was feeling. The problem is that saying what you are feeling on a public platform when you work for the most information-controlled studio is exactly the kind of thing that gets you a conversation with your supervisor, which is what we're pretty sure what happened. Rockstar does not allow its employees to speak publicly about projects. The studio has no public-facing developers on social media in any official capacity, something that once extended to former [Rockstar North](/rockstar-north-caeb "Rockstar North") lead developer [Obbe Vermeij](/obbe-vermeij-495d "Obbe Vermeij"). Koley's reply violated that policy, and the deactivation followed. With that said, the frustration with Schreier inside Rockstar is real, but it is also misdirected. He was just doing his job. He obtained information from sources and published it. The source who provided the information to Schreier is the person who violated Rockstar's trust. This connects to everything we have tracked about Rockstar's pre-launch behavior. The [34 employees fired in October 2025](/fired-gta-6-employees-fight-back-with-union-backing-3d09 "Fired GTA 6 Workers") for allegedly leaking confidential information, the [cease and desist letters to fan accounts posting AI-generated images](/the-gta-6-ai-fake-problem-just-got-its-latest-legal-takedown-779e "Take-Two Cease and Desist to GTASixJoker"), the [Cluckin' Bell restaurant rebrand](/real-life-gta-cluckin-bell-lasts-a-month-before-name-change-2d7d "Cluckin' Bell Rebrand"), and the [mod menu shutdowns](/another-gta-online-menu-confirms-closure-following-take-two-crackdown-4b18 "GTA Online Menu Closures"). Rockstar is operating with a level of information security that borders on paranoia, and given what happened in 2022 with the source code leak, can you really blame them? Again, let's make it clear. Schreier's reporting on _GTA 6_ is accurate, fair, and important. His latest comments about the game being content-complete were never about fear-mongering. You can blame other outlets for putting their own miscontrued spin into it, which, by the way, he explicitly corrected. Ultimately, though, Koley's account is gone, and the screenshots remain. Because of this, Rockstar's feelings about Schreier are now part of the public record in a way the studio never intended. Jason Schreier, characteristically, has not responded. ## FAQ - **Q:** What kind of incident was this inside Rockstar? **A:** This was a public social media outburst from a Rockstar developer about a journalist, followed by an apparent retreat after the post went viral. - **Q:** Does Koley's reply mean Rockstar officially blames Schreier for GTA 6 leaks? **A:** The post came from one developer, not an official Rockstar statement, even if it lines up with visible frustration inside the company. - **Q:** Why did the X account deactivation matter so much? **A:** The screenshots remain public, but the original reply is gone, which leaves the incident visible while cutting off any further context from the account itself. > [!INFO] What to watch for 1. Watch for any response from Jason Schreier on X, Bluesky, or Bloomberg. 2. Track whether Rockstar's GTA 6 marketing stays tightly scheduled after the November 2023 trailer disruption and the early trailer leak.