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Large Amount of Star Citizen Art Assets Leaked
jones_supa writes: A huge batch of work-in-progress assets for Star Citizen have leaked to the public. An unknown person, likely connected with Cloud Imperium Games in some way, provided a link to the 48 gigabytes of content. The link has now been taken down, but as we know, it's hard to remove material from Internet after once put there. Being a CryEngine game, it has been suggested that it might be possible to view some of the assets using CryEngine development tools. Leaks are always quite the conundrum with the opportunities they present to curious fans and competitor companies, but can also be very depressing for the developers and publisher of the game.
How the leak happened isn't a mystery. A person working for CIG (screen-name DiscoLando) posted some screenshots of content for the upcoming first-person-shooter module. In the desktop background to the image was a link to an internal torrent that was not password protected. People used the link to download the data, and then it spread all over the internet. Remember folks, always password-protect!
It's one way to cut down on piracy.
It isn't, though. The pirates can afford a better net connection, since they're not buying games.
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