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[West Texas CEO]

As someone who plays a lot of videogames, I come across a lot of content on social media platforms from leakers like Midori and Pyoro who have had access to files and been able to find information to leak about a current update or updates that are due to be released.

Some people do not mind finding information that is leaked' but others tend to steer clear of it as much as they can.
But these days, it seems the most of the popular leakers are getting hunted down, one by frickin' one.

What are your thoughts on video game leakers Midori and Pyoro getting cancelled? Is it about time?
Will someone else step into the spotlight?
Is leaker culture coming to an end?

 

[reinking]

No. Don't care. Leaks are fun sometimes (like hardware ) but not necessary for me to enjoy the hobby.

 

[Killer8]

Bring back the magic of being legitimately surprised at announcements.

 

[nial]

>Atlus
>Nintendo
nah.

 

[Skifi28]

Bring back the magic of being legitimately surprised at announcements.

Careful, you'll be accused of being a corporate shill.

 

[TheUndeadGamer]

Leaks on hardware are fun.
But leaks about games, I do enjoy surprises though and I’d kind of prefer that.

 

[bender]

 

[Draugoth]

 

[ShadyAcshuns]

 

[mitch1971]

 

[Pelta88]

I’ve never heard of them…

 

[Bring Back Scalebound]

Is leaker culture coming to an end?

I hope it is.
They are a cancer to gaming and gaming developers.

If you don't mind leakers, that's simply because you are selfish and want all the information given to you regardless of when the developers want to showcase that information.
And that's fine. Selfish is not inherently a bad thing.

For me, if a new Darkstalkers is being made, I would much rather see it on a Capcom event, or EVO or whatever. Then being told by a leaker.

Is like the least hype thing I can think of. No surprise trailer, no surprise announcement. Just text, telling you that a thing exists.

And call me a pearl clutcher if you will, but I believe it's genuinely disrespectful to the people developing the game in question.

 

[Barakov]

Doesn't really impact my enjoyment of videogames. When it comes to leakers the best case scenario just makes me go "Oh, that's cool."

For leakers this is a pretty good lesson. First, don't tell anybody you're leaking stuff and second, stay off discord.

 

[Hudo]

Nah, leakers of some gaming stuff are just farming Twitter reactions.

Leakers that leak shit like Boeing being retards at the expense of their passenger's safety or leakers that leak that the NSA behaving like the Stasi? Yes. These leakers need to be protected.

 

[Spyxos]

It's just been too much lately, you knew everything before it was shown. Building up some excitement will be good

 

[Celcius]

I don’t care. In fact, I’d rather just be surprised by the official announcements.

 

[captainpat]

I don't care about the leakers or if videogame leak culture is died but I also think it's stupid for people get so precious about videogame announcements.

I don't know why the videogame industry has to be so secretive about all this stuff.

 

[ReBurn]

No. I don't really care about leaks one way or the other.

 

[ManaByte]

I think it’s hilarious how Pyoro outed heir source to Bloomberg.

 

[buenoblue]

Yeah I used to love leaks but I try to stay away from them now. I like to just be surprised from announcements now.

Same with me movies and TV shows. I haven't watched a movie trailer in 3 or 4 years now and find I enjoy movies so much more going in totally blind.

Though I don't use social media much so it's easy for me to not see spoilers.

 

[SJRB]

 

[anthony2690]

Honestly not really, all they did was ruin the surprise for those looking forward to the showcases etc.

Things just become expected and the excitement is taken away.

 

[MrRenegade]

Dataminers next, please.

 

[Hudo]

Dataminers next, please.

Also: Schreier next please as well

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

I’d be lying if I said I don’t like reading about leaks. But I’d rather nothing got leaked if I had the choice. All it does is spoil some of the excitement and it’s unfair to the creators who poured their heart and soul into their game.

 

[squidilix]

Leak Hardware and strategy (and mail lol) are fun. But leaking games and waste all works from dev, reaction/reception and marketing are awful.

 

[Brigandier]

The poll results so far are exactly why I like this place and it's community

 

[MrRenegade]

Also: Schreier next please as well

You a niglet?

 

[NotMyProblemAnymoreCunt]

I don’t care. In fact, I’d rather just be surprised by the official announcements.

Same here

 

[LRKD]

I'll miss how much those leakers made certain people seethe.

 

[Punished Miku]

I think it mostly just fuels everyone's jaded, negative, unsatisfied mindset. Play games more. Watch shows and enjoy a surprise when its actually announced.

 

[GHound]

I couldn't care less about Pyoro but I am glad that fraud Midori got outed before he could string more people along on one good Sega document and a dumpster of poorly sourced intel/tales from my ass.

 

[MrRibeye]

Rumors and gossip make the most entertaining threads.

The whole Midori situation was A-grade popcorn and I'm sad that we have less of it now.

 

[Hudo]

You a niglet?

What's a "niglet"?

 

[Sojiro]

Most of the time they are talking out their ass, and when they do get it right, they are likely spoiling a big reveal before the show is put on. All for a little bit of internet clout. It wouldn't hurt my feelings at all to see them fade away, enjoy the shows as they were meant to be, without a leaker spoiling shit so people on Twitter will give them attention.

 

[Jesb]

I like when it’s little snippets about a game I’m looking forward to. It’s sometimes keeps you interested when the developer isn’t saying anything for years.

 

[xrnzaaas]

Don't care about the leaks with TLoU2 being the only exception and warning people about the incoming catastrophe.

 

[bitbydeath]

There’ll be more fake leakers cropping up, there always is.

 

[drganon]

Nope.

 

[Varteras]

 

[Miles708]

People give too much importance to leaks one way or the other.
On one hand: a big corporation marketing plans are getting ruined, oh no. Poor multi-billion dollar corpo.
On the other hand: if the leaker stops leaking, who cares. It's videogames, you will get your damn info on your damn product anyway.

It's videogames, it's not that important one way or the other.
Get off the hype cycle already

 

[lughnasadh123]

Don't care one way or the other aside from the team that made the game not having their moment for when they want to make the big reveal.

 

[Majukun]

so called leakers are more often than not just crafty bullshitters, so no.

 

[Shifty1897]

I care, it gives us gaffers something to talk about for the 300 days a year that aren't showcases/directs.

 

[Bert Big Balls]

Can't even begin to describe how little I give a fuck.

 

[West Texas CEO]

I'll miss how much those leakers made certain people seethe.

They didn't make me seethe, but I'm certainly glad they're not getting ballyhooed anymore.
It was getting ridiculous.

 

[West Texas CEO]

What's a "niglet"?

A character from the Winnie the Pooh cartoon:

 

[Lunarorbit]

I had a twitter account for about a week before deleting it. I read tweets all the time for info but they are embedded in articles or forums.

I miss a lot of leaks this way. When tlou2 came out and everyone was spoiling it I was able to avoid the rumors easily.

There will always be leakers. That Jason schrier article was so bad and divorced from reality. Nintendo is just a company and there will always be disgruntled workers

 

[Portugeezer]

I don't recall any major leaks, so no, I don't care.

 

[Shake Your Rump]

I thought the inclusion of this option in the poll would preempt this gif.