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A) It taints the perception of the game beforehand. People look at an incredibly raw bit of gameplay footage and go "wow, this looks like trash!" B) The guy wh
by WilTimSon 4y ago
A) It taints the perception of the game beforehand. People look at an incredibly raw bit of gameplay footage and go "wow, this looks like trash!"
B) The guy who did the leaking apparently tried to sell the source code, which is just scummy and would likely result in significant retooling from the devs' side, which means time and effort wasted.
C) While I personally don't subscribe to the glamour and glitz, there is something nice about a clean rollout for something anticipated or a surprise release. I remember seeing the first trailer for Peele's Nope and being incredibly excited because I heard nothing about the movie prior to that. If it was leaked or the screenplay was floating around with spoilers, I'd be somewhat less enthused.
- eminence32 4y ago> It taints the perception of the game beforehand. People look at an incredibly raw bit of gameplay footage and go "wow, this looks like trash!" I'm not saying you're wrong, but I have to say I'm surprised that people would think this. Looking by analogy at big Hollywood movies, movie studios often release their own "behind the scenes" video clips, and as far as I can tell, these clips aren't generally considered to detract from the finished movie in anyway (and I personally find them, and this GTA leaked video, fascinating)
- heyheyhey 4y ago> Looking by analogy at big Hollywood movies, movie studios often release their own "behind the scenes" video clips More apt analogy would be a workprint of a movie being leaked. This happened with "X-Men Origins: Wolverine" where lots of the special effects were still in progress so the workprint looked really cheap in some parts. But the people likely to watch a workprint and then form their opinion on that is incredibly small.
- eminence32 4y agoHmm, perhaps. But the GTA leak had a bunch of debug overlays and developer tools on the screen. It was very clearly not a finished product. A workprint for a movie doesn't generally have the same types of visual clues to indicate what a viewer is looking at. So I'm not sure that a movie workprint is the right comparison here.
- squeaky-clean 4y ago> Looking by analogy at big Hollywood movies, movie studios often release their own "behind the scenes" video clips And Rockstar releases those too [0]. The difference is those are all clips they vetted and chose to release. Hollywood also gets very upset about unapproved leaks. Even something as simple as an actor posting an Instagram selfie on a set they weren't supposed to photograph. [0] https://youtu.be/qquffawsUMw https://youtu.be/qquffawsUMw
- deelowe 4y agoWhy would they need to retool? I don't understand why a source code leak means they have to reprogram the game.
- dopeboy 4y agoWith the source out there, it's easier to hack.
- deelowe 4y agoHack what? Multiplayer?
- squeaky-clean 4y agoAbout half of GTA 5's overall revenue has come from purchases of the multiplayer currency. Multiplayer is a big deal for them.
- deelowe 4y agoAnd? Most of the security is server side, I’d imagine/hope.
- __david__ 4y agoSo they just re-write all the server stuff from scratch because there may be vulnerabilities in the code that got leaked? And somehow the new code they replace it with won't have vulnerabilities? That doesn't seem rational.
- gruez 4y agoGTA 5 is already so hilariously hackable that I don't think security is on their radar.