Chû Totoro
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Nice. I'm sure we'll have nice things coming ^^
If only for how those community thread a...regulars would react.
#JustPressSneakFuckThings
Now we wait for someone to leak Half Life 3.
If this will be used for ethical reasons, such as exposing brutal death march crunch? Sure.
If it's going to be used to leak pre-release alpha/target render footage, in advance of a proper reveal? No thanks. It's not fun to be working on something, seeing (or worse, being a part of) a dedicated team working hard on an E3 reveal, and then have the rug pulled out underneath you/them.
If it's going to be used to leak pre-release alpha/target render footage, in advance of a proper reveal? No thanks. It's not fun to be working on something, seeing (or worse, being a part of) a dedicated team working hard on an E3 reveal, and then have the rug pulled out underneath you/them.
That's their job, it is ok. It's not ok for snitch employers to leak information, which IMO should be sued and fired immediately once it happens.
#JustPressSneakFuckThings
#notallpresssneakfucks
This basically is saying "please help, we are losing clicks."
Strange thing to post. I don't think anyone would have a problem leaking information if they felt the need to, and I don't think that leaking to Kotaku would be safer than elsewhere. I can appreciate encouraging leaks for poorly managed workplaces and bad practices, but do we really NEED to have every game announcement leak?
Some might say "corporate bullshit" but is it really so bad to get the first glimpse of a game through a polished press release rather than rumors and grainy shots?
Came into this thread skeptical. Decided to read article before final judgment. Left better informed and with more respect for Kotaku. You win this round.
I love getting a polished corporate message. Makes me feel all warm and fuzzy, knowing that a press release was safely vetted by a PR department. More of those, please!
Given that you didn't even read the article before writing this, feel free to apologize for calling me "repulsive" whenever you'd like. If you do read the article, you can learn how to do it securely and anonymously.
This post is basically saying, "I don't know how the sausage works or how it's made".
It's amusing to picture someone using TOR and Starbucks wifi to upload many hundreds of megabytes of target render footage, but it's clear from the third paragraph of the article that Jason's talking about personal stories and testimonials that usually get muzzled by corporate culture and severance contracts.
Leaks of that nature are common. If Kotaku doesn't do it, a leaker will likely go to someone else who will and then they'll miss all that ad revenue. Why let someone else eat your lunch?
Translation: no one reads our shitty click bait "articles" and posts about gaming cakes after our garbage redesign bullshit that we refuse to fix, so please send us vaguely worded leaks that we can make into even more click bait articles that drive fanboy forum warriors into a tizzy. Thanks!
When you have advertise that you report news from sources it's a bad sign.
Can't believe you *still* haven't read the article. Or any of my posts in this thread.How is helping leak out information on a game's development (months/years before it's ready to be shown) with visual material and in-depth information not disgusting?
How is that helping it improve the industry or exposing bad practices? Why would you take someone else's work and show it yourself while stealing the dev team's thunder?
Please explain it to me.
this is awful. i'd much prefer the spoon fed info from the publishers i worship
No need for the attitude, I just don't happen to agree that every morsel of information about games MUST be leaked. Debut it when it's ready, it isn't like you can't make up your own mind or have to believe every word they advertise it with.
Chû Totoro;147764648 said:Nice. I'm sure we'll have nice things coming ^^
What?
When you have advertise that you report news from sources it's a bad sign.
Did you actually read the article?
No one said every morsel of information about games MUST be leaked.
This is quite old but it still gives me a good chuckle
Now this I definitely missed somehow. It is hilarious. :lol
Thanks to Grand Theft Auto IV, she wrote, with a fans enthusiasm, I am now a strong, independent black woman.
How is helping leak out information on a game's development (months/years before it's ready to be shown) with visual material and in-depth information not disgusting?
How is that helping it improve the industry or exposing bad practices? Why would you take someone else's work and show it yourself while stealing the dev team's thunder?
Please explain it to me.
They're in business to generate traffic, preferably on the back of good content. Which this development does not preclude.In my opinion this is open call for devs and other game industry insiders to leak them stuff for trafic.
They are saying we will say anything with a small grain of truth because there's not enough real things to report on in a 24 hour news cycle about video games.
You mean lots of fake stuff?
Koataku doesn't care if they are fake. Still get clicks.
Of course it's ok.
Excellent idea. It's up to the parties involved to craft contracts that will not leak, and it's up to the press to make the process of revealing information as simple and straightforward as possible.
What a huge leap in logic.They are saying we will say anything with a small grain of truth because there's not enough real things to report on in a 24 hour news cycle about video games.
What happens when the information they are given is fake? The industry is full of thousands of people. That is bound to happen.
What happens when the information they are given is fake? The industry is full of thousands of people. That is bound to happen.
Sign of what? Just stop the driveby shitpost stuff and get to your point.
It's nice that people want to be surprised by E3 or Nintendo Direct but, uh, you are on the internet. The place where leaks happen and insider shit gets talked about. Constantly. Maybe limit your exposure if you want to keep your hype safe.