Spoiler policy
People come here to set up a console or answer a practical question. Nobody should have the story spoiled on the way. These rules apply to every page, including community hub pages and anything we post elsewhere.
What counts as a spoiler
- Story events, twists, character fates and the ending.
- Mission names that reveal plot, and the order of story missions.
- Late-game locations, unlocks and characters that are not shown in Rockstar’s own marketing.
- Content of cutscenes, including descriptions in words.
Not a spoiler: anything Rockstar itself has shown in trailers, on its website or in its newswire before launch, and purely technical topics such as storage, pre-loadpre-load: Downloading the game files before release day, so the game is ready to play as soon as it unlocks. or settings menus.
Protection period
- Until 3 December 2026 (two weeks after release): no story spoilers on indexed pages at all. Pages that cannot avoid them stay out of search engines (
noindex) and are not linked from the home page. - After 3 December 2026: spoilers are allowed only inside a clearly marked spoiler section (see below), never in the page title, URL, meta description, headings or link text.
How spoiler sections are marked
A spoiler section starts with a warning line that names the scope (for example “Story spoilers up to the end of the first act”) and is collapsed by default. Content above it must be useful on its own.
Titles, links and social posts
- Page titles, URLs, meta descriptions and image alt text are always spoiler-free.
- Social posts and thumbnails follow the same rules, including after the protection period.
- We do not use leaked material, so leak-based spoilers are excluded entirely.
If we get it wrong
If you think something on a page spoils too much, tell us via the contact in the legal notice. We will move or remove it and note the change.