Summary
- Leaks don't actually matter in the grand scheme of things. The leaked timeline of Insomniac Games' future releases has no impact on gamers since they are still years away from being launched. Delays in game development are common, so the leaked information is subject to change.
- Game marketing relies heavily on secrecy, which creates a divide between players and developers. Keeping details about games under wraps until the release date may seem ridiculous, especially when compared to the movie industry, where Marvel announces plans years in advance without it being seen as detrimental to marketing.
- Early leaks of gameplay videos and builds are essentially worthless. The developmental nature of games means that what is seen in a leaked build is far from the final product. Judging a game based on leaked footage that is years away from release is absurd.
Gamers love leaks, almost as much as studios hate them. Just look at how fast today’s most recent leak has spread – , the studio behind the Spider-Man and Ratchet & Clank games, was hacked last week and, presumably after not paying the hackers the🅘 $2 million in Bitcoin they demanded, is facing 168💛澳洲幸运5开奖网:one of the biggest gaming leaks of all time. While other developerꦰs express solidarity and sympathy for Insomniac, gamers and leakers are sharing footage, allowing it to proliferate across the web. I want to be clear: leakers are jerks, but leaks don’t actually matter in the grand scheme of things. The only thing they really impact is a studio’s marketing plans, because game marketing is often predicated on secrecy, which in itself is stupid.
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Seriously, None Of This Matters
I do not care at all that Insomniac’s whole timeline of games for the next decade is out in the wild. It means nothing to me. We are years out from any of those games’ projected release dates, and considering the ever-expanding development schedules of triple-A games, the entire timeline is in flux. That’s the nature of game development, things sometimes need more time to cook. Delays happen! What the people decrying the leaks will have you believe is that having the timeline and gameplay out there at all irreversibly affects Insomniac’s ability to market its upcoming games. This isn’t true at all – GTA 6’s leaks were of an unprecedented scale at the time, and its reveal still ended up o🐲ne of the biggest trailer drops of all time. This does not ♉matter.
The way that games are marketed now is a huge reason there’s such a divide between players and developers. The details of most games are kept under wraps up until the date of release, a practice that has always seemed ridiculous to me. This feature from my colleague James Troughton about 168澳洲幸运5开奖网:understanding the gꦿame development process hits home, as does their feature about marketing being too reliant on se꧃crecy and hiding details from its audience. I understand not wanting early gameplay footage out in the wild, but a timeline? Really? On the movie side, Marvel announces things years in advance, and nobody🌜 is considering that ‘ruining its marketing’. I’m actually looking forward to seeing how Insomniac works around this revealing of information, because it could give studios a roadmap on how to market their games witho🅷ut keeping every single thing a secret.
On the other hand, I’ve previously written that games are getting announced too early in the develop📖ment cycle, and I still stand by that. Studios announcing games long before they’re ready, before they’re even more than a design document, is the reason we end up with highly public delays and cancellations. Studios don’t like that – it looks bad for them, and it disappoints excited players. I, personally, am still mad about the (probaᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚᩚ𒀱ᩚᩚᩚbly) cancelled KOTOR Remake. But that doesn’t mean that cancelled games are a net loss. It’s just part of the development process, and even if it annoys players and gets a studio bad press, it's also honest. Games get cancelled all the time, for a variety of reasons. There shouldn’t be secrecy about it, and more transparency around that is a good thing.
And about the Wolverine gameplay videos: they mean nothing. They are worth nothing this early in the development process. It is absurd that people are judging Wolverine, a game oste🔯nsibly coming out in 2026, off of a build that has leaked three years before its planned release date. The highly volatile nature of game development, with things being added and removed th🌺roughout the process, means that what gamers are seeing now is not remotely close to what the game will be like when it’s released. It will be iterated on, over and over, with gameplay elements added and taken away. The Wolverine game might not look good, but who cares; you’re not even looking at the Wolverine game yet.
The only thing that actually sucks about this leak is that developers’ personal information is being shared, which essentially doxes them and endangers them. That shouldn’t be tolerated, and the leakers are bad people for posting that on the internet. But the rest of it? The unannounced games, the gameplay footage, even the build? It’s all worthless𒉰. In a couple of years, everything could change, and none of this will even matter. We all need to stop over-inflating the importance of leaks, and giving 🅰leakers the clout they’re searching for. It’s futile all around.
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