You are entitled to your opinion, but I don't agree with it. There are currently thousands of pissed off fans across the internet over the leaks. I just have a very hard time believing that won't affect the sales at all. Now if you said they wouldn't have a major impact then yeah I would agree. But no impact at all? No way I can agree with that.
I'm extremely well-acquainted with the benefits of direct action. This type of action is the only thing that makes things better.
The owners are going to lose money if this affects sales. The devs aren't going to lose anything.
I won't go as far as claiming it'll have no impact, but do you care to put a rough qualifier around what a "nosedive" in sales means? Do you think it'll be something more like 10% or 30%, for instance, and what are you basing that feeling on in the light of games like KH3 and FF7R selling like gangbusters despite heavy leaks?
That's what I was thinking. Maybe a VA or dev member passed.
You make a decision like that all of things get destroyed. A guy went to prison for not giving up admin passwords and had to pay restitution tona company. This was the stupidest thing that person could've done and honestly hurts everyone not just the upper management. There are way better ways to combat a company Than this.
Without knowing what was said to them we can only guess. Maybe ND and Sony played hardball. Maybe they wanted something insane compensation wise. Who knows
No doubt that we don't yet know the full extent of what's happened behind the scenes, but there are far, far more constructive ways to protest poor working conditions than to throw your entire team under the bus. I'm all for action that pushes for positive change, but there is nothing positive about this. There's a huge difference between spoilers and industrial sabotage. We have NDAs for a reason.
Sorry, bit confused; not sure if you're directing that at me or the crowd I'm referring to? Really hoping it's the latter!
Legit cutscenes are out in the wild. It would be far more idiotic to claim the leaks are fake at this point.
There's noting to deny. These are literal videos from the game, they're obviously real.
If I had to put a number to my opinion I would say 10-20% because there seems to be a lot of angry people out there. And I am only going by the anger in response to these leaks. It kind of reminds of the leaks surrounding RoS. That to me means there is probably gonna be a corresponding dip in sales.
I mean you take a dozen people out that's still less than you had before all this. The major plot points have clips attached so its not just text. Some of them are in high quality gif form in your nearest comment section lol. Hopefully we get some official gameplay to take our minds off of the major stuff.I mean sure if all you want from games are their plot overviews in textual form.
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Only Halo fans defend unpaid, overworked employees leaking stuff?
Ehhh be very careful with wording like this. Some of the spoilers are true and some aren't.
Mate, we get it. You didn't like what you saw. Move on, quit with the dramatics.
Now is a good time to start using a video blocker and backlist some keywords on twitter/tweetdeck
what i use is
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tweetdeck and the twitter site don't sync your mute list so make sure to do it twice.
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This isn't really the threat you think it is. Game "careers" last a handful of years. Most people ship one or two games at most, and then leave the industry. It's a horrible, abusive, exploitative industry, and unless you're an owner/executive, you're probably dreaming of something better.
No. That group of people falls under the cateogry that doesn't understand how laws work, in other words children.
I haven't seen the spoilers myself, but I've seen the posted videos and screenshots which I avoided.
I think that there are much larger factors at play that will reduce sales than angry people on Twitter, like the global pandemic that has temporarily killed off a ton of the US and global economy. I think that the amount of angry nonbuyers due to the leak will be a rounding error. Either way, it's something that is impossible to quantify unless we get specific tracking of cancelled preorders from Benji or someone else in the know around the timing of this leak. I just don't think that thousands of angry people on the hot take machine that is Twitter will actually correlate to hundreds of thousands of lost sales in reality.
They will never work in games again, no game studio heck depending no tech studio would want to hire someone that did broke nda like this. This is
Yes no impact at all. I don't believe for a second this will affect sales and it's just like all the other bs that some pretend that it's going to massively affect something and than nothing.
This is a quixotic sentiment. It would be great if you were right, and I hope you are, but you're assuming a lot here.
