An email sent by Activision to its studios working on Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3 shows that Activision was monitoring the situation involving potential leaks of the game and knew people were leaking info about the game.
In the email, Activision did not blame anyone or any studio for the leaks but also praised the hard work of the studios in preparing for the official release.
Activision and Infinity Ward ended up acknowledging the leaks as the debut of Modern Warfare 3 but were worried of their official revealing being ruined as a result. Due to how much stuff was already done when the leak occurred, Activision still had enough new stuff to talk about in the official debut for the game.
If anything, Activision is upset at Kotaku for leaking out too much game info and worried for a while the hype of the game could have suffered in the long run.
Quote:
"I wanted to reach out to you today and address the Call of Duty intellectual property leak that occurred last Friday," started Hirshberg. "Of course, Activision takes very seriously any abuse of our intellectual property – the event is under investigation and we’re confident it will be resolved quickly."
"What I want to tell you about is how we handled the event internally," he continued. "We were lucky in that we were very close to our scheduled reveal date, and therefore, we had a number of assets that had not yet been released, but were ready to go."
"When it came to light that we had suffered a significant security breach, it became clear that a leak of this size had the potential to throw our launch off of its schedule, or worse, blunt its momentum," he wrote. "As a company, we needed to look both backwards and forwards simultaneously. Of course we needed to immediately begin finding the source of the leak. But we also needed to deal with the fact that, like it or not, our launch had just begun."
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Quick News Round-Up:
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2) After seeing the success of Nintendo's AR stuff, Sony announces it will be adding their own AR tech in upcoming Sony products. Even though Sony says they've been working on the tech since the PS1, its another situation where Sony waits and "copies" after Nintendo does it first.
3) Mega Man Legends 3 Prototype "paid" demo delayed again as Capcom announces the demo will not be launching when eshop launches in June. The whole project itself is in danger of being cancelled due to constant delays and Capcom unwilling to back the project 100%.