Leaks

This week seems to have been the official start of the Blizzard Alpha Test event, according to a few places. It took all of a few picoseconds before the entirety of the Alpha was leaked to the web.

Personally, this pisses me off enough for me to use the word "pisses" in a sentence. Doesn't anyone read and respect an NDA for an event to which they were a hand-picked invitee?

I ask that rhetorically of course, since in this age, you only need one person to leak, and there's no way to invite thousands of people you implicitly trust. It's just a shame. 

Now, that's not to say the information coming out about Burning Crusade is bad. It all actually makes for a great read. And, there's a chance this is all just a ploy very much in line with the traditional strategy for marketing to hardcore. The anti-establishment stick-it-to-the-man sorta folks Blizzard already successfully marks to just loves to feel like they're getting info through back channels and the underground.

But I still feel it's a shame all people can't be expected to abide by even vague contracts they make. It might be fun to read what they say, but it just gets harder to hold them in any regard as people.