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From: "Brian Baird" <brianb@pe-i.com>
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Subject: Re: dma ICQ chat log leaked?
Date: Thu, 21 Dec 2000 10:19:21 -0600
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"Matt Verran" <matt@frktl.freeserve.co.uk> wrote in message
news:8ckl93$qqi1@chuka.playstation.co.uk...
>   Have a look at a post called "dma chat log.." on
> comp.games.development.industry. It appears to be a log of ICQ messages
sent
> between Rockstar in the US and DMA in scotland just before GTA2 wen't
gold.
> Some very 'interesting' things in it, including the phone & mobile number
of
> one of the DMA employees and some very candid comments on peoples ability
:)
>   I do wonder whether it's real, and whether it was supposed to be posted
on
> a public newsgroup?

I just saw this message.... I was 'on the inside' when this happened. It was
real, very real. Real messages from our technical producer at Rockstar to
the head of Rockstar.

They most definitely were not supposed to be posted - he left the messages
on someone else's PC that he was using whilst over in Dundee for the final
stages of GTA2. Someone leaked them after he & his boss closed down the
office & made over a dozen people redundant. I had nothing to do with the
leaking!

There was a lot of antagonism between us & Rockstar as you can probably tell
from those messages. Pretty much most of the GTA/GTA2 quit a few months
afterwards for a variety of reasons...