In a way, the leak served as an unexpected beta/sneak peek of Jedi Academy.
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I hit that download button so hard and fast and got my copy with the help of my blazing fast 25Kb/s download speeds.Ĭontrary to Raven’s allegations, that build of the game was indeed playable from start to finish it was only missing a few textures, most (if not all) skybox textures, and a few minor bugs here and there, but nothing too game-breaking.Įven the multiplayer was playable-albeit without a master server nor the dedicated server executables, hosting a game and using the /connect command to manually join worked just fine. The temptation to get our hands into that leaked copy was too intense, one half of my friends preferred to wait and not dabble in the realm of illegality, but some of us couldn’t resist and downloaded it. The theory with the most consensus and the most plausible one at the time was that the leak was the work of a disgruntled employee-or his girlfriend, depending on who you asked.
Many theories as to who was the culprit arose across all of the community forums, some had more credence than others, but most, if not all, spawned out of pure speculation and unconfirmed hearsay. I remember how surprised my friends and I were when the news broke. I didn’t knew much about Jedi Academy beyond its name, and it’s not like I made efforts in obtaining additional information.Īpproximately a month and a half before the game’s release date, a “Pre-Gold” build of Jedi Academy began to circulate on the Internet. Mind you, 2003 was a much simpler era, the proliferation of social media that we see today was just taking its first shy steps, and much less gaming outlets existed not to mention that English Chinese cartoon message boards were still new and more niche.
I was ecstatic that Jedi Outcast was getting a sequel, the hype was real. “They’re making Jedi Knight Three!” They said. I still remember it as if it was yesterday, it was a few months into my Jedi Outcast adventure when my clanmates told me some exciting news.
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