Yesterday Fallout 4 Footage taken from Gamescom was leaked on Youtube. Zenimax's copyright team was pretty fast in getting it taken down but this being the Internet it was downloaded off Youtube and put up everywhere including Pornhub(reasoning Zenimax wouldn't venture there).
The footage was taken discretely from an audience member and it is shaky, blurry, out of contrast, out of frame, has some guys head in the way for half the video and the other half is filmed between two people's shoulders. Only half of the Gamescom demo was uploaded and it is in German. Overall it is a garbage tier video and really isn't worth that much of a watch. However with Fallout 4 HYPE everyone has watched it.
Since it has been around 30 hours since the leak Zenimax seems content to let the pirated footage speak for Bethesda's work for the time being. When a low quality Suicide Squad trailer leaked at Comic-Con Warner Bros. choose to release the high quality trailer far sooner than they intended rather than allow a shoddy video to represent their product. It remains to be seen if Zenimax will follow that example. This does seem to be another nail in coffin of convention exclusive footage particularly in gaming with the rise of services like Twitch and Youtube fuelling a massive audience for live streamed events.
The footage was taken discretely from an audience member and it is shaky, blurry, out of contrast, out of frame, has some guys head in the way for half the video and the other half is filmed between two people's shoulders. Only half of the Gamescom demo was uploaded and it is in German. Overall it is a garbage tier video and really isn't worth that much of a watch. However with Fallout 4 HYPE everyone has watched it.
Since it has been around 30 hours since the leak Zenimax seems content to let the pirated footage speak for Bethesda's work for the time being. When a low quality Suicide Squad trailer leaked at Comic-Con Warner Bros. choose to release the high quality trailer far sooner than they intended rather than allow a shoddy video to represent their product. It remains to be seen if Zenimax will follow that example. This does seem to be another nail in coffin of convention exclusive footage particularly in gaming with the rise of services like Twitch and Youtube fuelling a massive audience for live streamed events.