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Do companies ever give into straightforward extortion like this? It doesn't seem like it would ever make sense for a company to pay the ransom. Do hackers like these have some kind of smart play that I'm missing?
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> Gamers are the most toxic community I have ever encountered. Nothing but parroted vitriol and entitlement. I don't even look online anymore, I just play the games and make my own opinions. Sadly, this is kind of the one part that I blame CDprojectRed for even though I think they delivered an awesome product, albeit super buggy and limited one; they built the hype up so much and pushed the narrative of an immersive…
Based on the articles that came out, it would appear that it was a classic case of devs being betrayed by managment and/or the marketing department. One anecdote that struck me was that when the studio announced the April 2019 release, a number of devs thought it was a prank at first because of how implausible it sounded.
It's certainly possible to be the case, and I'm not even ruling out the hack being an inside job given what a clusterf--- this has been so far on a PR level. People gave nearly a decade to this Indie project only to see the same Corpo narrative play out with the dev's being the 'gonks' thrown under the bus when it came to it.
How come management and project leads aren't fore-fitting their pay and bonuses until these things are resorted, mainly because it's always the foot soldiers who are the ones that solve the problems and management overseeing it has an overembelished value, if anything, in ultimately delivering on a diesreable goal.
I can see a disgruntled team of devs saying 'F it' after all of this and just making sure the whole thing ends in a big flame and jumping ship.
Which sucks because I got back into gaming to play Cyberpunk 2077 after taking over a decade off and wanted to see it all pan out, but this may not happen.