It's incredible how hard it is for people to understand this. Sorry — you break NDA, you put yourself at this risk. Hope it's worth it.
Exactly. Folks just
don't get it. They've got
no damn clue the impact leaking and blabbing has on teams and projects. Though I had some idea of the impact, I didn't realize the full extent of it until 3 or so years ago when I talked to someone who at the time anyway was working for one of the NPD Group's partners regarding those monthly NPD numbers leaking out. Look...this stuff doesn't just affect GameFreak and Nintendo. It also affects partners of theirs, partners of partners, domestic retailers, international retailers and still more partners of theirs some of who have nothing to do with gaming! It's hugely damaging. At best your project can still release relatively uneventfully. At worst there's delays, stuff gets shifted around...it's a massive headache when worst case hits. After the discussion I had, which was extremely eye opening and interesting, there's zero desire to go down that street.
While I don't want to see 4 lives ruined over this, I do want to see them face tangible consequences for it so they learn you can't just do this with things that aren't your property. I really hope this is finally the deterrent that will totally curb leaking but sadly it won't be.
