I mean with the recent GTA 6 like most of the time i saw hype about any news at all but at the same time it said to be a disaster for rockstar games so why is that a bad thing now?
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As I understand it the biggest concern is security. When a program is released (unless it is open source) the code isn’t readable by people who download it. It’s effectively encrypted. That means that anybody wanting to find an exploit or security vulnerability in the program is working at a fairly large disadvantage. The fact that 10000 lines of pure code have been leaked is a huge issue for this reason – it’s much easier for someone seeking to exploit or abuse vulnerabilities to do so if they know exactly how the code is written.
An analogy I saw was the difference between giving someone a gun and telling them to hit a target, and doing the same thing but putting a blindfold on them and spinning them until they are dizzy first.
The commentator I saw talking about this speculated that, depending on what code was leaked, this could be severe enough to force them to redevelop from the ground up. Obviously this would delay the game and cost a lot of money.
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