Camaxide:

I predict no real consequence from this.. Mostly it will be easier to make hacks for those games, but as they are single player games it makes little sense.. It's also not like it's much interest of any of the players.. The only reason the hackers wants to release it is to get praise for prooving they were able to hack a server - oooh, how amazing... Now I'm back to playing games, which CDPR happens to be really good at making imo. 😀

I predict hearing about arrests in a couple of years from now about this.

ruthan:

I remember times even companies like IDsoft actually gave sources for free.. now is such leak disaster.

Well, they'd wait around 5-10 years after the game was out to release the source. Not 6 months. The disaster could lie in the technological basis, but of course now games are so much more complex than 20-30 years ago, where the entire rendering engine for a game was made by one guy in 6 months or 2 guys in a year or so. So there'll probably not be a massive issue for the company that their technology is available like this, in the sense of it being abused or copied to make something akin to it. Everyone in the big space are already making games on this scale. So mainly now it's probably the image issue that comes with having your data stolen. Also I seriously doubt that the current IDsoft will want to release the Doom 2016 source. Even in 5 years.

AlmondMan:

Well, they'd wait around 5-10 years after the game was out to release the source. Not 6 months. The disaster could lie in the technological basis, but of course now games are so much more complex than 20 years ago, where the entire rendering engine for a game was made by one guy in 6 months or 2 guys in a year or so. So there'll probably not be a massive issue for the company that their technology is available like this, in the sense of it being abused or copied to make something akin to it. Everyone in the big space are already making games on this scale. So mainly now it's probably the image issue that comes with having your data stolen. Also I seriously doubt that the current IDsoft will want to release the Doom 2016 source. Even in 5 years.

Probably the most accurate comment here.

Solfaur:

As far as potential CP2077 multiplayer hacks are concerned, I for one see the chances of a multiplayer even happening anymore at this point below 1%.

To be honest after playing the game I couldn't see how they planned to implement a multiplayer in the game at least not one that wouldn't be anything other than a below standard FPS shooter. The open world isn't engaging enough to allow them to implement a free form GTAO style gameplay and the gameplay itself isn't complex or engaging enough to be, as I said, a below par FPS shooter.

fantaskarsef:

This is probably a naive question, but what does that change at this point?

Nothing, as they have changed a lot of code to fix a lot of bugs and make the source leaked useless... Not a so naive question but a logical question.

something they often repeat in Level1Techs videos : when you've been hacked and something is leaked, you don't know what else has been compromised or stolen nor if the attack was the only one to have access, other parties might have benefited from the breach