So this is bad and all that, but I don't understand why this might impact sales of the game. This is an unfinished, in-house, likely alpha (or even proof-of-concept) build of a game that is [hopefully] at least 20+ hours long.
A few minutes should not dissuade people from buying it any more than a 3-minute preview of a 2-hour movie would. As intelligent consumers, we should have the common sense the years of sad experience to know that what we see up to the final release is conditional, at best, and subject to change, and should therefore not assume this is indicative of the final build.
We used to have these things called "demos" back in the day, and you could argue they even increased sales. Yes I know a leak isn't a demo, but hopefully you see the similarities.
@judaspete said:
@davillain: Right? Not only is it probably full of malware, but it's an incomplete pre-double-secret-probation-alpha build. What fun could you possibly have?
Glad I'm not the only one being reasonable.
Why is every thing that goes wrong a "the sky is falling" order of magnitude these days? Have we just become so accustomed to catastrophe?
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