The last two days have seen the release of an pre-alpha version of Unreal 2.
Grant Roberts who's a Unreal 2 forum moderator (+ Associate Producer, QA Tester, Webmaster and foodman for Legend Entertainment) over at the official Unreal 2 forum, posted this in response to the release:
Alright, people, listen up.
Here are the FACTS about the past few days.
1. The build that we took to show at E3 has been leaked somehow. It is not a "beta". It is not an "alpha". It is not a "pre-alpha". It is a highly specialized build designed to show off specific things--NOT a build for people to randomly take screenshots and post them all over the web.
2. This was not done intentionally. We would not release something half-finished, and give people the opportunities to do what has been done over the last few days.
3. The crackdown begins NOW. From this moment forward, anyone who posts screenshots, links to download sites, or anything else details-related about this build will be immediately banned.
4. Any help you guys could provide us would be very much appreciated. If you downloaded the files from this site or that site, give me the site URL.
This is NOT a case of "Well, it's a publicly released demo, I have the right to download and play it." No, you do not. I've heard this situation compared to Napster. "They're both kinda piracy, what's the difference?"
Well, for one thing, Napster never went from record studio to record studio and stole recordings from musicians that were not even half-finished.
That is all, gentlemen. Don't expect me to be Mr. Nice Grant about this. If you make my job harder than it is right now, there's going to be trouble.
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