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Sledgehammer Games co-founder, Glen Schofield, has spoken out about the recent Call of Duty: Advanced Warfare leak and he's not particularly happy about it. The game was apparently stolen and then streamed live via Twitch, showing off a bunch of unannounced details ahead of the game's official release next week.
The leak occurred yesterday afternoon when a user called Anfunny29 started streaming Advanced Warfare gameplay. Several Call of Duty YouTuber's were quick to nab all the information and footage they could before the stream got shut down. One new feature that seems to be getting fans excited is the DNA Bomb, a new 30 killstreak reward that kills the enemy team and then leaves behind a green mist that spreads throughout the battlefield before disappearing.
Players will also be able to turn on and off Paintball effects, a full list of weapon camouflage patters was also revealed. Video game leaks tend to happen from time to time but Glen Schofield was pretty disappointed, tweeting out “We took 3 years 2 make a game.Kept it quiet 4 the fans & it has to be stolen & leaked a week b4. That sucks. A real bummer. Thanks a lot.”
One follower suggested that the leak was needed as many potential buyers weren't satisfied with the amount of information currently available. However, Schofield went on to say that the game must have been stolen at some point, saying that “stealing and releasing is not the answer”.
When people tried to make it out like the leak wasn't a big deal, the Sledgehammer co-founder added that “It is a big deal to us because discovery while playing is part of the fun. It will all be good, just saying”.
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KitGuru Says: It does seem a little unfair to take a hard working developer's big moment away from them. A successful launch and subsequent discovery of all of the game's new features would have garnered up a lot of praise and attention. While launch day may still go well for the team, a lot of the surprise has been taken out of it. That said, developers should pretty much expect leaks these days, there aren't many surprises left in gaming or tech, unfortunately. What do you guys think? Do you care about leaks? Would you rather have every last bit of information prior to release?
“We took 3 years 2 make a game.Kept it quiet 4 the fans & it has to be stolen & leaked a week b4. That sucks. A real bummer. Thanks a lot.” … isn’t he like 40-50 years old? :O I get it if he only had a limited amount of letters to write though :/ I don’t care about leaks at all, they are a standard by now, both artificial leaks – which are plenty – and real random leaks. In fact, I disapprove of any information holding in any aspect :/
it was on twitter
the only thing i heard about from the leak atp is the dna bomb thanks ali-a.
Oh, there’s a limit on twitter? …. gosh I feel slightly awkward now…
Lolwut. You didn’t know that twitter is limited to 140 characters per post? Where have you been for the last 7 years?
Some people don’t use it, can’t blame them.
So when the hackers infiltrate the new game lobbys they will be able to mist everyone over and over.. great.
Sounds like most companies tbh they don’t want to take the chance of losing potential sales if its revealed that the game is bad or broken in a major way, I imagine shareholders would not be too happy if sales flopped if fans decided not to buy if it was revealed they’d done a copy/paste/rinse/repeat like EA does with its sports titles( last years game with some new “sparkly bits”)
yeah. remember back when sms messages were limited, and the phone makers had to invent phones that could chain together multiple texts, because it pissed people off. someone on the internet thought it was time to bring that back, and it sort of exploded because people are irrational, and apparently love a communication tool which limits their ability to express themselves.
don’t care not buying it….remember call of duty ghost………
In a safe place, apparantely.
lol what kind of fucking idiot thought it was a good Idea to instantly kill the enemy team? huh? because Ill tell you right now that it isnt and intelligent way to keep your playerbase. and from what Ive played of call of duty, it is ludicrously easy to make chain kills when you have a better weapon than other people (in other words when you’re an unskilled prick with a high level). So yeah, make the difference between high levels and low levels clearer by instantly eradicating the enemy team. That’s just the kind of thing that would make me want to ragequit. being killed without any skill whatsoever. At least this doesn’t happen in BF or PS2 and never will, cause its just so fucking stupid.
I don’t know if you knew already, but those kind of killstreaks have existed since MW2…just saying
my point still stands. 🙂