Why Developers Posted Their Own Ugly Footage After the GTA…

The public treated a mid-production build as a finished product. Developers across the industry answered by showing what their own shipped games looked like at the same stage. The most interesting thing about September 2022 was not the leak. It was the argument the leak started. Within a day of the footage appearing, a substantial share of public reaction had done something the industry found alarming: it evaluated an unannounced game, years from release, from a mid-production build — and found