that’s like seeing a pothole from 50 feet away and saying, “oh that looks fine, i’ll just drive over it”, but when you actually get there, half your car drops into the street lol

Well obviously the first thing a rogue AI is going to do is figure out how to patch itself. 

Exactly. I mean, we can’t rule out him having a friend (or friends, or friend-of-a-friend) inside the company, who can feed him information directly, or through a Discord chat.

But we also can’t rule out Take Two being extremely overzealous and litigious, as they have a track record of acting this way in protecting…

Yup if anything this is a very good lesson that if an investigator comes to your house you have no obligation to speak to them at all. 

lol. :)

It’s really amazing how dumb some people are on what “freedom of speech” even means. 

So many goddamn corporate apologists in the comments. I bet they'd react the same way if Ubisoft, Bethesda or EA had sent thugs to intimidate Jason for his reporting on leaks and his exposes. 

That’s what I think would have been a good idea, too: apparently the guy’s a prolific, known-in-the-fanbase Borderlands content person, so recognize that, recognize that views and clicks are his motivation, and incentivize him with an exclusive teaser video he can host on his channel. Give him an inconsequential bone…

The funny thing is, almost all the stuff I saw him talk about before being officially announced by Gearbox was stuff that was discovered by other people (which he often credited by name), was stuff that was discoverable by anyone in the public (in this case often with SteamDB) or Gearbox employee’s own ineptitude by…

First off: something something Streisand Effect.

Nah...it’s called investigating. That’s what investigators do. They...investigate

This coming from a publisher for the same developer whose CEO got pissy about one set of journalists breaking a story that was promised exclusively to a different set of journalists?

Well I’m an idiot.

That’s a thin argument I think. I get how leaks can have negative effects on a company, but this wasn’t about negative publicity but rather information about their games. Do you really think people weren’t going to buy Borderlands 3 after hearing this guy talk about new playable characters or character balance?

Well, I don’t know the whole story but fishing around on Twitch isn’t illegal. Who cares about leakers? Doesn’t change whether or not you’d enjoy the game and honestly he was probably just free advertisement for BL3 up until they pissed off his fanbase.

Wow. This is some next level bullshit. Sending private investigators? In a sense that’s pure intimidation over leaks that are coming from a source they idiotically provided and then were either too lazy or inept to plug properly.

Pulling some fucked-up bullshit like this makes me not want to play a studio’s new game.

Most people who are talking about the post being snarky and condescending are also condemning the death threats, sexism, etc. You seem to be under the impression that this particular Venn diagram is nearly a circle when it’s quite the opposite. As always, there’s a vocal, violent minority that doesn’t actually care…

I got plenty of issues with the Epic Games store but man that is not the fucking point here. An indie developer was utterly and viciously harassed over the weekend for no good reason and all you can say is how people don’t get why you hate EGS? Fucking hell, dude. Get some god damned perspective and GROW THE FUCK UP!…

To add a bit of commentary here, “he started it” doesn’t work as an excuse in middle school, I’m not sure why it’s allowed to work on the Internet.