Someone at Playground Games accidentally pushed a 155GB unencrypted build of Forza Horizon 6 to Steam. Here's how Reddit reacted to this colossal CI/CD failure.
Some poor dev at Playground Games just pulled the ultimate "testing in production" move, and the internet is having an absolute field day. Instead of deploying an internal patch, someone hit the wrong button and pushed the entire Forza Horizon 6 game to Steam. Almost two weeks early.
How do you accidentally leak your own AAA game? You push a massive 155GB update to Steam... without any encryption. SteamDB picked it up immediately, and the damage was done. No DRM, no obfuscation, just the raw, naked game files sitting there for anyone fast enough to snatch them. Who needs to pay for early access when the devs just hand you the keys to the kingdom?
Reddit’s r/gaming is literally on fire right now. Here’s a quick breakdown of the chaos:
So, what's the takeaway here for us code monkeys? Protect your master branch and double-check your deployment pipelines. How does a 155GB unencrypted dev build pass through approvals and hit the public Steam branch? Instead of blindly testing on production, maybe they should have spun up a private VPS to test their deployment process securely.
This is a colossal fuck-up, plain and simple. While we love laughing at mega-corporations tripping over their own shoelaces, you gotta feel for the devs who are probably crunching and doing 3 AM hotfixes right now to patch this mess. GG, Microsoft. For the rest of you, don't download random executable files off shady forums unless you want your PC mining crypto for some dude in Eastern Europe.
Sources: Reddit | TwistedVoxel
