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Perhaps most readers are expecting the arrival of a game that has recently leaked all content that has caused a stir in the online community? Let's continue to learn about the most memorable leaked games, it will also appear!
Assassin's Creed: Syndicate
The Assassin's Creed game series was inherently familiar with letting the information leak before the game was officially announced. Among the leaks, it can be said that Kotaku is Ubisoft's 'No. 1 enemy' as they constantly release the most sensitive information about Assassin's Creed projects when parts 3, 4 and Unity are revealed. soon by this news site. But the most notable is Assassin's Creed: Syndicate .
Specifically, in December 2014, just a short time after Assassin's Creed: Unity was released, Kotaku published a series of confidential information on Ubisoft about the next AC project scheduled to launch one year later. . The project, called Assassin's Creed Victory, is set to take place in London, England during the industrial revolution. Accompanied by a series of screenshots in the game to prove the authenticity as well as reveal the game content. Fans at that time did not support this new project at all, especially after the Unity scandal that Ubisoft decided to give AC a regular release every year.
In addition to those criticisms, Ubisoft also suffered significant losses when the marketing campaign for the game was hit hard by the information leaked too early. In retaliation, Ubisoft decided not to provide the Sydicate game early so that Kotaku could review it, along with a number of other retaliatory moves that left significant damage to this game site. Ironically, two years later, Assassin's Creed Origins continued to be leaked by Kotaku quite early, showing how scary this game news site is for game publishers.
STALKER: Shadow of Chernobyl
Shadow of Chernobyl has a long development process with many changes and reshaping game ideas. That makes the final version of the game not the same as what was promised before, but anyway this is still a great game. If you want to know the original STALKER, there is a way to try it, but let's hear about the game leak story first.
In 2003, a pre-alpha version leaked onto the P2P network. As a project that has long been anticipated by the PC gaming community, a lot of people are eager to download this version. This pre-alpha version requires a few custom configurations as well as a lot of missing things like some enemies or creatures, but it is generally playable.
Another interesting thing is that later there is also a mod called Lost Alpha which is promised to restore exactly what Shadow of Chernobyl promised before, the modders who implemented it are expected to sell the mod to make money. . But beta testers leaked the mod, forcing these modders to release the mod earlier and not making money from it either.
Half-Life 2 and Counter-Strike: Source
The leak of Half-Life 2 is arguably the most memorable incident in gaming history. Accordingly, Half-Life 2 was supposed to be released on September 13, 2003. But a group of hackers broke into Valve's server system, stealing a lot of extremely important information and data. . As a result, the entire source code, maps, models, and playable builds of Half-Life 2 and Counter-Strike: Source were widely distributed online, leaving heavy damage to Valve.
Gabe Newell later expressed an interest in a German hacker in this group and intended to invite him back as a security and security supervision consultant for Valve. As a result, this hacker named Axel Gembe thought it was enough to get into the muzzle that was caught by the police, a high move from Gaben. As for Half-Life 2, Valve had to delay the game to 2004 and set aside a year to make some changes in the game as well as fix the damage of the server hack. It can be said that with many storms in the development process, Half-Life 2 absolutely deserves its incredible success.
The Last of Us Part II
Well, not surprising, right? When the new album took place recently . The Last of Us Part II is one of the most anticipated sequels to date, not to talk about the terrible expectations from fans, especially after success followed Naughty Dog's success with the Uncharted and The Last of Us series. But on a good day, someone posted a whole story with a lot of videos, including many important scenes of the game as destructive behavior.
Sony quickly tried to erase the tracks but of course there was no way to completely erase them all because many gamers were able to save them all on their computers and spread each other in many ways. The reaction to the leaked content of Part 2 so far has been largely negative when fans seem to disagree with the direction Naughty Dog has set for the game. Many even cheered the culprit, saying that thanks to this person, he did not have to spend money to buy the game.
Sony later revealed that it had found the person who released the game information online, it was not the disgruntled or exploited employees that led to the frustration of breaking the game as rumored. However, Sony kept the identity of the perpetrator anonymous, saying it was continuing to investigate further.
The Last of Us Part II has been delayed several times, recently due to the Covid-19 epidemic, but how serious the leak of information forced Sony to set an official release date for the game in June. Whether The Last of Us Part II is so 'bad', we can only wait until the game officially launches.
Leaking games over time has become a challenge for manufacturers. Sometimes the leaked information comes not from the company's security flaws but from its document-holding partners but with a lower level of security. Leaks often cannot be put out because gamers who have saved their documents will have ways to spread them out of the company's control. In general, once the information has been revealed, the damage will inevitably happen to the manufacturer, while gamers will get excited and bickering.
In your opinion, which game leak should be considered the most epic case in history?