Disney Infinity's On-Disc DLC Poses Risk of Future Movie Leaks

But it's a risk that Disney is willing to take.

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Disney Infinity's On-Disc DLC Poses Risk of Future Movie Leaks
Disney seems to have big plans for its upcoming Skylanders-style project, Disney Infinity. Along with annual sequels, the company has revealed that DLC will be included on the disc. That comes with some risks, however - hackers could uncover details of future movies by way of data mining.

Disney Infinity's executive producer John Vignocchi explained in a recent interview that the DLC contained on the games could relate to unannounced projects by Disney's film studios. He added that on-disc DLC is a necessity due to the limitations of current-generation hardware. So he's hoping savvy gamers will be nice.

The potential for leaks from data mining is "something that we've made the film-makers aware of," Vignocchi said. "There's absolute potential that people are going to see characters prior to their PR campaigns kicking off if someone does that.

"But we're hoping that isn't something that is widespread reported because then people are going to start looking for it, and it's going to ruin the magic for the consumer." Whoops.

"In the future, as we move on to new versions of consoles we're going to be able to digitally deliver that content, and the figurines themselves will simply be dongles that allow us to then instantiate a download of that content," Vignocchi added. "But given the current generation of consoles, the content needs to be on the disc. But in the future we'll be able to push all that digitally so we don't run into that problem."

Source: Videogamer

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DrkStr 25 Jan 2013 13:03
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Then don't call it DLC, say it's content unlocked by a character model.

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