The Podcast Sequence, Sacred Symbols, has been hit laborious by Crystal Dynamics after posting Tomb Raider script leaks onto their Patreon. Crystal Dynamics has not solely gone after the podcast with DMCA notices, however Patreon as nicely, mainly confirming that the entire data leaked is true.

The Tomb Raider Script Leaks Appear Verified

This previous weekend, Sacred Symbols received their palms on what they consider are parts of the most recent Tomb Raider recreation script. Particularly, they suppose it’s the Lara Croft audition half, which entails her main Tomb Raiders within the recreation. Although as of proper now, these leaks have neither been confirmed nor denied by the builders at Crystal Dynamics.

Crystal Dynamics has formally issued DMCA notices in opposition to each Patreon itself and the homeowners of the Sacred Symbols podcast. In fact, the leaks had been taken down virtually instantly, however loads of folks received to put eyes and ears on the content material previous to it being deleted. Sacred Symbols launched a video giving their facet of the story, the place they state, 

“I do not wish to be a free-speech martyr with Sq. Enix and attempt to struggle this out or one thing. Its like okay advantageous. Particularly as a result of we do not have to make the edits wherever else.”

The podcast homeowners go on to state that they perceive the developer’s reactions solely, and that if Crystal Dynamics believes that this DMCA is legitimate, they haven’t any points complying in any way. They do notice that the devs are solely doing what they consider is greatest to guard their content material.

Additionally they ask why the builders at Crystal Dynamics didn’t DMCA every other folks or websites aside from themselves and Patreon. Although, they then go on to state that the copyright homeowners have the power to select and select who they go after. To them, this appeared transformative, as they consider they had been focused as a consequence of them having a destructive response to the script, although none of this has been verified in any way, it’s merely their opinion on the matter. 

Whereas this isn’t the primary time a developer has given DCMA notices to leakers of content material, corresponding to Konami did when Silent Hill content material had been leaked, the devs at Crystal Dynamics struck extraordinarily rapidly on the Podcast homeowners, the place they’d issued this discover the identical day the video was launched on Patreon. The leaked content material will even stay on different platforms that Sacred Symbols has launched it on till the builders determine to ship DMCA notices for these websites as nicely, which once more is odd to the podcast homeowners that they didn’t achieve this within the first place.