Guys it could be just a very sophisticated hoax to get people riled up and through us all off the truth. We all know that Dovetail sometimes make mistakes but allowing their announcement of the year to be leaked 2 days before it's officially released is just unbelievable. It's more than anyone's job worth to do this !
Unless it was intentionally leaked two days ahead of the release stream, and on a UK bank holiday weekend, so that the 3PM stream on Tuesday gets maximum impact If everyone's already "riled up" then that's a good thing, especially if they can actually hit what they say they can
There will be a video of some sort I have no doubt. JD sort of alluded to this on the RH announcement stream the other week
The official announcement of Rush Hour is on Tuesday 4th May at 3pm UTC. Then the normal Roadmap announcements are at 8pm UTC.
Someone updating the page hit Publish instead of Draft- easily done. One of the News Websites managed to do it when Tweaking the Queen's Obituary and published that for a brief period (They are pre-written in advance) May take the wind out of the announcement - but any publicity is good publicity and you've got people talking!
There will be a normal roadmap stream on Tuesday in addition to the Rush Hour announcement. ------------------------------- Nobody would put in the time - and in just the few hours since the teaser pic! - to create such a near-perfect hoax webpage, and then hack it into DTG's own website. Even if the ACS 64 could be borrowed from TSW 1, then there are the Gatwick Express and Dresden S-Bahn liveries, and the marketing copy which is absolutely spot-on. What deranged genius would have both the ability and motivation to do something like that? A fraudster that good would be spending his time making $100 bills......
One also wonders if this 'accident' really was one.... It could also be a really brilliant PR tactic, given the bank holiday. Although DTG have now pulled the page down, there was rather a substantial delay- long enough for it to be reproduced in forum threads (which have NOT been taken down), and recorded in the Wayback Machine.
Think about it: somebody at DTG just happened to be at work and mucking about with their dev page- at 9:30-10:00 on a Sunday morning on a bank holiday weekend. Then, an hour or so later, Sam just happens to pop in and has a look round, on that same bank holiday Sunday. Then, after a considerable time lag, the page is taken down- but none of the many forum threads which reproduce it are disturbed.
If it's true then i guess we now know the real reason the NEC route was held back,So dtg had something in reserve for future use.
With no disrespect to DTG what so ever. DTG will tell you, me and the rest of the TSW community what THEY want us to know. Is this leak a good thing?, well yes its got people talking about the next big thing for TSW. Why hasn't mine and other peoples Videos about Rush hour leak/ info been taken down by You Tube. This was a slow release leak. Its was also posted on the the Unofficial DTG discord server, where Members of DTG hang out quite often. There are at least Two good routes being adedd to the TSW stable (sorry not sure about the NEC route). Regards Hentis
I think when they realised that May the 4th is more importantly Star Wars day, they 'leaked' it early!