On the UT2003 Demo Leak

A post called A leaked early test version of UT2003 on the Infogrames Forums (thanks Shacknews) by Epic's Mark Rein offers some thoughts on a leaked version of the upcoming UT2003 Demo that has been making its way around the Internet. The post explains the issues Infogrames has to deal with when it comes to news like this, and goes on to address some issues about the demo that he's been hearing, including whether the actual release of this demo should be considered "overdue," why they are not just releasing the current version since it's already been leaked, and why they have not been forthcoming with more information.
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Anybody who looks at this leaked beta and doesn't realize how old it is is just stupid. I have seen it running on a mates big PC and you can tell almost instantly that it's a very much WIP version.

It would have been good if Mark Rein had mentioned in his post just what the latest build revision is which I think would give people a better idea how old the leaked one is.

Personally.. although it's very very rough, I don't think this will hurt UT2K3 at all. This is just going to make some people all the more anxious to get the real deal demo.

/me wonders if DE will include a demo editor in the UT2K3 demo =)

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