Why is leaked footage of a unfinished game like GTA 6 a nightmare for the developers/companies?

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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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Because people don’t really take the “unfinished” part into account properly. Why would they share footage of their game being buggy, laggy and with features that may be changed? That’s bad marketing.

Also, if they implement a feature that they then have to remove, people who liked the feature may get mad and “demand” the feature to be re-implemented even though the company has decided it’s not a good idea for whatever reason.

And then there’s the security “concerns”. If you show a bunch of bugs and/or how the game is built, it will be easier to cheat and whatnot. Though I would argue that keeping your code open-source would help more than it would hurt.

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