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This Week in Games - The Leaks of Us

I don't support leaks of any sort but I feel that they had it coming for them. Delaying the game 3 times is not a good excuse. They were being perfectionists and wanting to get GOTY again by not releasing the game at a promised date.

Amy Henning is a legend, when it comes to writing amazing video game stories. I will always respect the lady who gave us the Legacy of Kain series.

And now Sony has announced that they tracked down the source of the leaks, and it was people outside of Naughty Dog and Sony. So, possibly hackers who probably had an easier time right now with Naughty Dog working from home and security not being as tight as it would be if material wasn't leaving the building.

I suppose, if we're wanting to get conspiratorial, it could be claimed that Sony is pointing to outside sources to downplay the situation at Naughty Dog. But, personally, I think oustiders seems more likely. Like I said in my prior post, it's hard to see where damaging sales of the game and being sued would have helped an employee or their coworkers.

Same lady also gave us the story of Uncharted 3 which was the worst in the series. And also apparently was the artist/designer on Micheal Jordan Chaos In The Windy City!?

And now Sony has announced that they tracked down the source of the leaks, and it was people outside of Naughty Dog and Sony. So, possibly hackers who probably had an easier time right now with Naughty Dog working from home and security not being as tight as it would be if material wasn't leaving the building.

Like I said in my prior post, it's hard to see where damaging sales of the game and being sued would have helped an employee or their coworkers.

I'd say 3 is better than 1 or 4. 1 for being the first and unpolished compared to the sequels, and 4 for being so different and more.. 'modern cinematic experience' than the original trilogy was.

But in the realm of video games you get weird clauses like games having to reach certain Metacritic review score averages, which is completely arbitrary and completely in the hands of random people at hundreds of online outlets rather than the people who actually worked on the game itself. Some angry dude at some random website having a bad day getting mad at your game can cost you a bonus which seems pretty silly. The video game industry is just weird and a lot younger than other business models.

I doubt this will hurt sales more than in the thousands range, but the going idea seems to be to force them to release the game and thereby the employees being able to get their paychecks which were being held until the game was released.

I've seen the leaks and the meme's being made. Honestly it saves me 60$ aye.. spoiler[Hell the deaths reach gore porn levels of brutality and normally that doesn't bother me. However it's they way handled said character deaths..]