But this speed of communication can also hinder the internet, especially regarding video games. In the past couple of days, the developer build of Gears of War 3 was leaked onto a torrent site. Now this leaked game holds immense spoilers, since it isn't really supposed to come out for another 2 months. It's made me wonder, what is the protocol with spoilers and video games?
Spend more than 10 minutes looking up a game online and you're bound to run into some spoilers. I was actually looking up something for Bioshock, when I went through it last year, and had the unfortunate spoiling of the end of the game. It really ruined a lot of the Bioshock charm for me once I kept playing, having already known the big plot twist. After that incident, I rarely look anything up on a game I'm currently playing. It's so difficult to not see spoilers, especially when you don't know what they are.
It's a tricky situation, especially in video games. You've got some people who have already beaten the game and want to discuss the ending, and there's always people who are just picking it up. It's hard to make both parties happy in a place as accessible as the internet. You can't control what people post, but you can monitor where they post it.
Once you've gotten past all of the internet spoilers, occasionally the game itself spoils something for you. I am currently about 3/4 through Final Fantasy XIII. It's my first Final Fantasy game and I love it so far. After they announced FFXIII-2, I immediately downloaded the trailer only to find that gave away a lot of the ending of the first one! I was not expecting spoilers in a trailer, so I didn't even know to skip it.
What I'm really getting at is to live spoiler free in our world, you basically have to live in a rock. And that doesn't really sit right with me. I think that the video game community has so much respect for games (and their plot), that there should be an alternate system in place regarding spoilers. I don't really have any answers, but I can see the problem. I guess the only thing I can do is make Assassionista as spoiler free as possible.
As always,
LadySnip3r
PS. Have any of you had any BIG game moments spoiled before you could play them? Please remember just to say the game's name, not the actual spoiler (we wouldn't want history to repeat itself). What do you do to avoid spoilers?
