Something is wrong, brothers!
Now from x (Twitter), Tieba to domestic and foreign games**, are talking about the leakage of information about Sony's "insomnia group"。。。
Insomac Games is a game developer owned by Sony Game Studios, which is efficient, good liver, and consistent in quality.
Many people should be no strangers to the "insomnia group".
After all, their masterpieces run through PS1 - PS4"Marvel's Spider-Man 2" released some time ago has been called "the best superhero game in history" by many players
It's such a company.,It was stolen by a hacker gang a while ago.。。。
On December 12th, the hacker team Ryhsida stole 167 TB of data, including more than 1.3 million files, including upcoming game materials, as well as production plans for the next few years, and even some employee profiles, it can be said that they have been stolen.
The group also threatened to publish the stolen data within 7 days!Unless someone bids for the data at a starting price of 50 bitcoins (about $2 million), anyone can do it, including Sony.
Extortion is extortion.,It's so good to hear about the auction.。。。
Since the ransom was not received, the private information was made public after the deadline passed.
The published materials include not only past game files, but also actual demos of what appear to be upcoming Wolverine games, test shots, concept art, casting, and possible new characters.
In short, quite bad ...
Specific game information, let's not spoil it here, it's like knowing the plot of a movie in advance, the experience of watching the movie is less than half, and the game is the same.
In addition to the specific information of the game, even the leave plan information of the company's employees has been given.
Don't overwork and take paid time off".
There is also a plan for future releases, "Insomnia Group" plans to maintain the rhythm of one work every two years in the next 8-10 years, and will continue to develop five 3A masterpieces one after another, most of which are related to Marvel.
In this regard, netizens frantically complained: "If you count from 23 years this year, it is equivalent to four works being developed at the same time, a master of time management".
Marvel is treating the insomnia group as a donkey".
People in the insomnia group died suddenly in two days, what a liver."
Of course, some people complain that this is a formulaic development of New Year's goods.
But,Anyway, the players are relieved.,It turns out that Sony is not alive.,But hidden.,It's still worth looking forward to.。。。
There are even foreign players who learn industry knowledge from these materials.
At present, most of the games under the "Insomnia Group" are in a profitable or expected to be profitable, only "Ratchet & Clank: Time and Space Jump" has not returned on investment, with a loss of $8 million and a return on investment of -10%.
In an internal PPT produced by the "Insomnia Group" at the beginning of 2022, the game group's research on triple-A games was shown: compared to triple-A games, medium-sized games only require one-third of the capital and half the development time, but the net sales of two medium-sized games can be similar to that of a triple-A game, and three may even exceed the latter.
All kinds of information, the news about the information leakage of the "insomnia group" in the past few days has been flying all over the country and abroad, but the "insomnia group" is not the first victim.
Leaks in the game industry can be said to be common, in 2003, V company "Half-Life 2" leaked, hackers stole the source of the unfinished version of "Half-Life 2", and then a version that can be played in advance began to circulate on the Internet, which eventually led to B company having to postpone the release time and redo the game.
In recent years, the hacker team's attacks on game manufacturers have become even more "crazy".
In 2020, a number of unannounced games, including Capcom's "Street Fighter 6" and "Dragon Dog's Strip 2", were leaked, and the characters of the new work of "Street Fighter 6" were ripped off.
In 2021, hackers stole and sold some of the key games of games like The Witcher 3 and Cyberpunk 2077 by Polish Stupid Donkey...
In 2022, hacker Arion Kurtaj hacked R-Star and shared nearly 90 unreleased clips of Grand Theft Auto 6* online
This is not over, they will leak your game information in advance before your game is launched, and attack your server when your game is online, making your game run unstable, which can lead to economic losses for the manufacturer, and also make players who really like games unhappy.
Today, these hackers are like cyberpirates, a nightmare for game manufacturers.
You pay the ransom, then this thing is over, today this one will blackmail you, tomorrow the one will blackmail you, if you don't pay the ransom, then your unreleased game will run naked.
Fortunately, in recent years, more and more attention has been paid to cybercrime, and this kind of incident has been directly attacked
I hope that in the future, there will be fewer and fewer such things.
After all, this group of "pirates" is not only blackmailing those game developers who have worked hard for years to make, but also destroying the long-awaited happiness of gamers around the world.