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Originally Posted by luthier
Just so you guys know, this is a rare case of a true leak, i.e. not a marketing ploy but a real rogue user doing something really lame for self-promotion.
The stuff you're seeing is obviously from a beta, not indicative of release, and I'm really way too upset to address this in a calm manner at this time.
The person who leaked this is a personal friend of one of our programmers. I anticipated exactly this kind of issue, Oleg warned me about this specifically. The programmer asked us to give his buddy beta access as a personal favor to him, and I in turn took the responsibility on myself. I got chewed up for this big time, and I'm seriously considering letting the programmer go. It goes without saying that the author's beta access is revoked, and I'm cutting all further communication with him.
We caught this a bit too late, by which time it was way too late to try to delete it, so we'll let you guys continue discussing it but probably won't check the thread or respond to anything related to these videos.
We'll release final gameplay videos once we go gold, where you can judge the features that are shipping with release.
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Really sorry to hear this, I guess many of us had a feeling that this was the case *sigh*. At least the beta isn't leaked on torrent sites and hopefully it will stay that way, look at the whole Crysis 2 debacle. If it's any comfort to you and the rest of the guys at MG I would like to say that the game looks and sounds pretty freaky awesome even though it's still a bit WIP. Cheers for the reply Ilya and good luck on the remainder of the development time
