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Employees applying for leave to play "GTA6" are expected to cause losses of approximately 12 million pounds to British companies. Data from employee absence tracking platform BrightHR shows that some 83,000 UK employees explicitly mentioned the game when applying for leave between November and December.
"GTA6" is scheduled to be released on November 19. Relevant estimates show that about 5% of the leave applications that day were related to this work, and the corresponding corporate loss was approximately 3.14 million pounds.
Among the reasons submitted locally for leave, game release date was mentioned twice as often as honeymoon. Some players have also saved up a whole year's vacation and are preparing to take two consecutive weeks of rest to complete the game.
Publisher Take-Two stated that pre-orders for "GTA6" have reached 7.7 million, and it is expected that this game will become one of the largest game launches. The loss of 12 million pounds, 83,000 employees on leave, and 7.7 million pre-orders are all relevant statistics or estimates, not the final settlement results.
The 212GB download volume of "GTA6" tests the host store and telecommunications network
"GTA6" will be launched on November 19th, and the 212GB main data will be pre-loaded from 0:00 on November 10th. Many people in the game and Internet industries believe that distributing data nine days in advance can alleviate the pressure on console stores and telecommunications networks, but congestion may still occur in some areas on the day of launch.
This release is called the first time a AAA masterpiece has been released purely digitally on such a scale. Sensor Tower estimates that the current number of game pre-orders is close to 8 million. After the pre-loading is completed, faster key exchange will be performed at the moment of release; even if there is a first-day patch, the data that needs to be additionally downloaded may be limited.
When "Hollow Knight: Silk Song" was released in 2025, there were no pre-orders and pre-loads available. A large number of purchase and download requests poured in at the same time, and the Nintendo, PlayStation, Xbox and Steam stores experienced glitches. The early opening of pre-loading this time is an important measure to disperse the pressure of centralized downloading.
Former Sony employee Gordon Thornton believes that the platform has grasped the scale of pre-orders, bandwidth requirements and local distribution node capacity. CityFibre's Neil McRae also said that network operators have become accustomed to traffic spikes caused by major game updates.
Joost van Dreunen reminded that there may still be tens of millions of immediate buyers on the day of launch. If a large number of players download 212GB of data at the same time in Europe and the United States at night, congestion may still occur in some areas.
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