Obviously referencing rockstar and GTA
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I asked this question to my friend just the other day, this is what I was told. So for like Rockstar the source code is kind of misnomer in that its all the game data that developers have been working on prior to packaging for release. 100s of them probably spent years working on it, so now with that being leaked, everyone is going know what to expect in the game. In all honesty it shouldn’t delay the development any unless they want to change some of the code to alter the game, but that would require a lot of man hours to accomplish, that’s why it would delay release or development. I may be paraphrasing a little with this, so if I am wrong, please don’t break my butt on it lol.
https://twitter.com/RockstarGames/status/1571849091860029455/photo/1
> we do not anticipate any disruption to our live game services nor any long-term effect on the development of our ongoing projects.
Still, there seems to be a bit of a morale hit among the devs, and they’re gonna have to patch the security flaw that allowed the leak.
It.. does not.
There’s the obvious belief that the surprise has now been ruined, but the leaks have been minimal and not that surprising either. Rockstar would have shown the same stuff when they released their initial trailer. Heck, GTA V’s trailer had shown way more content from the game than what we have seen so far.
Companies simply don’t like not being in control of their own marketing. This takes the ball away from Rockstar in deciding how to announce their game and build hype. That and games undergo many changes during their development cycle, with features being altered or dropped completely depending on how playtesting goes. Showing the product too early will set the public’s expectations. And you don’t really want that.
Think of it as an artist revealing a half-finished portrait. It may or may not change what the final painting will look like, which may change its release window. But it’s unlikely to grind the whole project down to a halt.
Edit: There’s also the aspect of video game developers enjoying seeing their 5+ years of hard work revealed at a company event in front of millions of viewers and press. A pixelated video full of debug tags shared on Twitter without much context is.. hardly how you want to present your best work to the world.
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