Please, that is such an obviously fake claim. What really will happen that Master Chief will join forces with Mario, Dexter, and sexual harrasment Fluttershy to beat the alien scum with tubas.Grey Carter said:Of course, the answer to spoilers is simply to flood the internet with fake claims to make picking out the real ones impossible. I've heard that the game features segments where Master Chief battles aliens with the power of song.
That would involve the kind of rational thought that any corporation with more then 20 people is basically incapable of.Sylveria said:So.. if the leak shows something shitty, it's bad. But if the leak show's something good, it's good?
Maybe the moral of the story is companies should stop pumping out garbage then blaming leaks for bad sales.
It's the gold (i.e. final) version of the game. It's about the money. Since most people buy Halo for the multiplayer, sales could only be affected if the game gets negative reviews before people have a chance to buy it.llubtoille said:Microsoft as a business probably doesn't care terribly much, as you said they'll still cash in on this either way.T3hSource said:Can somebody please explain to me why M$ is panicking?This leak can stir up much more hype than CGI trailers.If they think they are going to lose sales,they should be smoking a bit more money to realize that people are going to buy it anyway,be it 16-year olds or grandmas.
Sure it's not a complete build that's not representative of the final product,but some people want to see GAMEPLAY,has anything changed and is it good?
ME3 leaked,sold through the roof.Deus Ex:HR leaked half a year before release,still sold over a million.Crysis 2 leaked,still sold well for a sequel.
This is just PR peeing in their pants and nothing more,do they have to make it into a drama?
However this does cause them to loose face in general, it shows they're susceptible to such leaks.
The ones who are probably most disapointed with the leak would be the makers who for the last three+ years have poured their efforts into making the game, their glorious unveiling has now been rather tarnished.
A bit like if a famous artist spent three years painting something in secrecy, then a month before it's finished someone sneaks in and snaps a shot of it.
Everyone who's interested will see this unfinished piece of work and judge it as the final product; in addition it will prematurely burn public interest, so by the time the actual piece is unveiled, most will say 'yeah we saw that a month ago' and not be interested.
TLDR: it's not always about the money.
The game industry still hasn't taken to heart that if your product is good, you won't need to worry about potential losses through piracy. Sure, there are rare exceptions (World of Goo, Crysis 2), but most of the time, piracy figures make up such a small margin (often less than 1 percent) that the potential benefits far outweigh the cons.Sylveria said:So.. if the leak shows something shitty, it's bad. But if the leak show's something good, it's good?
Maybe the moral of the story is companies should stop pumping out garbage then blaming leaks for bad sales.
Yeah people tend to forget or ignore when console games get leaked and pirated to death but still cling to PC gaming as a holy grail of pirates. Funny thing is I don't have a single friend that pirates PC games but I know quite a few people that have less than legal methods for their xbox. Irony is delicious.Mygaffer said:But I thought only PC games got leaked early, because of, you know, piracy and junk.