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[Gamer79]

It seems like every other week we hear a "rumor" about something big is going to happen and almost every time it doesn't. I swear I heard the Switch 2 was going to be revealed about a Dozen times by now. Every up coming event like the latest Sony Show "State of Shit" there are all of these juicy rumors with news that all of us want and they are almost always false. I swear most of the time it's just some kind of pretend insider who throws shit at the wall and hoping it will stick. There have already been big leakers who have admitted they made shit up and many people believed them.

What is a crazy idea is many of these "leaks" or "secret game announcements" that never come to fruition are games that would easily sell but the publishers and developers let it fall on deaf ears. Some games with Name alone like Half Life 3 would sell millions on just name alone but the publisher is like FUCK YOU we are going to work on something else. A proper Bloodbourne remaster fans have been wanting or many beloved franchises just get ignored. Sorry old man shaking the stick rant over/

I am to the point where I hear a new "rumor" or "leak" I automatically think bullshit because it is. It's a good tactic for getting a quick click but also tells people your word does not mean squat. Is anyone or any source tracking these idiots and their horrible prediction histories?

 

[Guilty_AI]

I heard a rumor someone's developing a rumor tracking app.

 

[adamsapple]

 

[SimTourist]

No industry worker under NDAs is gonna risk his job for 5 minutes of shitty internet fame

 

[Soodanim]

Anyone can claim anything and any Tom, Dick or Harry can post any old shit anywhere at any time.

A rumour means nothing to me. I hear it, (sometimes) process the implications of it being true, then forget about it.

 

[BbMajor7th]

No industry worker under NDAs is gonna risk his job for 5 minutes of shitty internet fame

Can confirm.

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

No industry worker under NDAs is gonna risk his job for 5 minutes of shitty internet fame

Yet we get real leaks all the time the hard part is trying to decide which ones are true

 

[adamsapple]

No industry worker under NDAs is gonna risk his job for 5 minutes of shitty internet fame

You just need to know which one's are reliable. No one has a 100% track record, but folks like Grubb are a lot more often right than wrong, despite whatever you might think of him as a person.

There's also some 'insiders' who just scrape back-end databse stuff, so things from them is pretty much almost always right.

 

[notseqi]

I heard a rumor someone's developing a rumor tracking app.

That's a rumour.

 

[Woopah]

Lots of rumours go round the industry, not all of them are true.

 

[Guilty_AI]

That's a rumour.

The source is trustworthy so its ok to believe in it

 

[Roman Empire]

I heard a rumor that Activision is making a new CoD.

 

[BbMajor7th]

Yet we get real leaks all the time the hard part is trying to decide which ones are true

I think most of these come through external vendors: localisation, retailers, manufacturers, ad agencies, certification boards, etc. Internally, these companies have pretty insane disclosure processes.

 

[DR3AM]

I have insider information on Concord 2

 

[Guardian Monkey]

All rumors are true because they are rumors and some rumors become true while some rumors do not.

 

[tomato shrub]

Rule of thumb: Believe nothing. Except shaky pics of word documents, they were clearly made in secret they must be true

 

[ChoosableOne]

We can expose these bullshitters(I'm not implying our own snake oil salesman) in this thread so that we can all keep track of them.

 

[LavitzSlambert]

Yet we get real leaks all the time the hard part is trying to decide which ones are true

We are now doing journalists' jobs for them, because the majority of them seemingly can't vet their own sources (or choose not to, because they're chasing clicks).

 

[Robb]

Can’t say I keep track of anyone. It’s more about multiple independent people corroborating the same thing. Where there’s smoke there’s, usually, fire etc.

 

[HeisenbergFX4]

We are now doing journalists' jobs for them, because the majority of them seemingly can't vet their own sources (or choose not to, because they're chasing clicks).

Thats the big issue they simply dont care anymore how much they get wrong

 

[notseqi]

I have insider information on Concord 2

I have outsider information on Concord 2. But so does everybody else.

 

[LavitzSlambert]

Thats the big issue they simply dont care anymore how much they get wrong

And apparently neither does the gaming community, to fall victim to repeat offenders. I'm not innocent in this either, as it's always fun to speculate, but my interest in leaks has waned because of it.