GTA 6 Fans Flood Florida Nudist Resort’s Reviews, Accused of Extorting the Owners

A Kissimmee, Florida business is getting dragged into GTA 6’s leak cycle whether it likes it or not. Cypress Cove Nudist Resort has been hit with a wave of Google reviews referencing leaked GTA 6 footage, and the owners say some of the people posting them have gone further and demanded money to take the reviews down.

The leak that started it: Jason, binoculars, a shootout

The trouble traces back to footage from leaker Cyberleek, who released gameplay focusing on a nudist town following an online poll of followers. In the clip, player character Jason Duval was seen walking among naked resort guests before pulling out binoculars to zoom in on them, and the scene ended with him attacking the nudists.

Fans immediately went looking for a real-world match, and Kissimmee’s own clothing-optional resort fit the bill. Investigators claim the real-world version of the nudist resort is Cypress Cove, located in Kissimmee, Florida, a property that offers a nine-hole golf course, tennis courts and kayaking. It’s a stretch to call this confirmed. Rockstar hasn’t said a word about it, and probably won’t.

People online have been split between finding this funny and finding it grim:

Cypress Cove’s response: “We will not pay”

The resort’s Google listing has since filled up with reviews name-dropping the leak. Fake reviews started name-dropping GTA 6, Jason Duval, and an alleged binoculars “incident,” with some posters writing as if the leaked scene had actually happened at the real resort. That’s a real problem for a business that relies on word of mouth and, per multiple reports, a clientele that skews older and almost certainly hasn’t touched a leaked gameplay clip in their lives.

Cypress Cove pushed back publicly rather than staying quiet. In one reply the resort wrote it was dealing with “SPAM / EXTORTION REVIEW,” explaining that references to “Jason Duval,” “Lucia,” binoculars, a pool and firearms were “references to Grand Theft Auto VI. Yes. A video game,” and that the posts appeared to be “a coordinated series of fabricated posts”. It’s a blunt way to handle it, and honestly the right one. Trying to explain the joke politely to confused real customers would have taken forever.

The extortion claim

What turns this from a harmless in-joke into a genuine business threat is the follow-up demand. Cypress Cove says the fake reviews were “then followed by a request that we PAY MONEY to have the reviews changed or removed”, and the resort was unambiguous about its answer, telling posters “We will not pay, nor will we negotiate”. It even threw in a dig at the game itself, joking it was “located in Florida, not Leonida,” and that “‘internet ransom’ is not in our marketing budget”.

We’d call that the correct move. Paying up would only tell whoever is behind this that it works, and a resort caving to strangers threatening its Google score is a bad precedent for every small business that finds itself in a leak’s blast radius next.

GTA has done this before, to O’Driscolls and to an actual island

None of this is new for Rockstar’s fanbase, even if the target changes. One Reddit commenter pointed out that when RDR2 was released, a bunch of people went and review-bombed anything named “O’Driscoll,” which is a common Irish surname, over in-game references. GTA V had its own version of this too: Canouan in Saint Vincent and the Grenadines has seen similar unwanted attention after internet sleuths deduced it was the inspiration for GTA V’s Cayo Perico, with the island’s airport bombarded by unusual reviews.

That history is exactly why this keeps happening. Nobody involved seems to get punished for it, and the “joke” travels fast inside GTA’s fandom every time a leak drops.

Still four months out from launch

November 19 is the release date for the new Grand Theft Auto game, capping a 13-year wait as players prepare to pick it up on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S. If leaked clips are already dragging a real Florida business into unwanted “incident” reviews this far out, Rockstar’s actual marketing push between now and launch is going to have plenty more of this to compete with.