I hear you... but if the mirror was turned and you was a developer working on a game and somebody leaked what you was working on... would you really just shrug it off? Lmao now imagine your reveal actually meant something but it lost its wow factor because it leaked. Would you still... shrug it off?
I actually welcome the leaks but this is wild. Please tell me this is sarcasm.
There are two solutions to this problem:
They do in the case of obtaining information through unscrupulous means.
If you are a developer you still have casuals that don’t pay attention to leaks (and those will always exist) to get reactions from plus you know...the actual paychecks.
Hmmm... a casual being shocked or an actual diehard fan being shocked... what has more value? C'mon, bro.
"Casuals" will hear about this too in this modern social media age. And your paycheck can actually be lower if leakers botch your reveal.
Yes.
I mean, i'm more talking about the fact that the games industry needs to change on a systemic level, where leaks shouldn't be this foundation shattering event that can apparently radically effect development. I know the hollywood comparison is brought up a lot, but people know marvel movies far in advance, and yet the hype on that somehow wasn't shaken despite the fact wee knew infinity war was a thing for years.
Why would you post this online ?Sabi posted the email received
I mean plenty of hardcore fans don’t like leaks and try to avoid them(which is still an option when leaks happen). The rise of spoiler filters for browser and react videos prove this much.
Well see there is the thing, systemic changes are hard, its much easier to just handwring about individuals leaking things and assuming that if the industry can snuff enough of them out, we can go back to 2004 when twitter wasn't around.. Literally just treating the symptoms not the cause.
Striking example with Nintendo:
you clearly have an issue with how that post is framed, but it's not that controversial, and you're the one personifying it with words like 'evil' and allusions to 'sheep' rhetoric.
You trying to call the entire game industry lazy for not doing something that practically no other industry does?
If a leak makes a company toxic. Then the company was on shaky ground in the first place.
A lot of the time, no, but the timing and breadth of these leaks are rather suspicious. It's not common for leakers to have such specific information from so many different companies.
Companies are not people.
That's more Nintendo being a bully than anything else.
Nintendo a bully for something leaking from a company they're working with and wanting not to have things leak so having to not work with the company?
No haha, i'm mostly just shaking my head over the fact that system is set up to be plagued by leaks and yet people just keep thinking that as long as we keep sticking our fingers in these holes, the water is going to stop coming in. Maybe you just need a better boat...
Canceled over a Splatoon Like prototype leak? I feel sorry for devs but Nintendo was stupid in that scenario just like they are here. It’s irrational social norms I will never understand.
Surprise: Companies have more power than studios and you have to show they can trust their money in you
Tarnished business relations due to leaks is not even a new concept to any industry.
That's not how it works.
The only way the system would not be "plagued by leaks," is if the system does what I said and posts all information about a game as it gets created (actually that's a more extreme version of what I said, but no less true). That's simply not feasible in any way, and suggesting that it is shows a fundamental misunderstanding of how the business surrounding games works (in the same way many 'lazy devs' arguments show a fundamental misunderstanding of how development works).
There's always gonna be a disgruntled employee or an employee who wanna share his/her excitement via a leak. Either way it's pretty selfish lmao
How dare companies want to keep their projects secret until they desire to reveal them
Yes it is legal
What would be illegal? Nintendo claims they are in the right, if the other party disagrees they can ignore it which leaves Nintendo the option to take them to court and it gets settled.
Ok, now *I* can't breathe.
I don't think we're going to agree here, the problem is all the secretism in the first place, as far as I'm concerned. Who is mandating the secretism? The company with the big bags of money that wants to market their games as they please (iregardless to the Devs), or cancel them without being known that they were working on them in the first place.
