Why is a games source code being leaked a bad thing? Doesn’t all that code exist in the games files?

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I do know that that code obviously then inst available, since that’s why the recent leaks are significant…but why is it significant? Obviously cheaters will use that to more easily make hacks, but why is that code not part of the game? How does that code not exist in the game files? Is it hidden in some way or is some of that engine code or what exactly is it?

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Because the executable files that you have are in machine code, and is unreadable by humans. Even if you converted it back to human-readable code (with a decompiler), there are probably thousands of variables which are completely unlabeled, which you’ll have to figure out one by one. And if a programmer used any unorthodox tricks, you’ll have zero chance of figuring it out.

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