Steam autumn and winter holiday sale leak

[Ikagara]

via: http://lambdageneration.com/news/steam/dates-for-steam-holiday-sales-leaked/

We’re living in a world where you can’t trust to almost anyone.
The bad thing is – if you can’t trust to your publisher or a developer even if NDA means nothing to them.
Today (or I’d say yesterday) a screenshot of email, which was sent to publishers and developers by Valve, was leaked by a Russian developer via Steam Greenlight

Spoiler

Here is a screenshot that was uploaded to Imgur, of the email from Valve:

I still don’t know why the person who leaked this decided to ignore the red text, where Valve specifically asked people to do not make the date of the Sales public.
The guy said that this information is ‘highly restricted’, so, because of the restriction, I decided to ignore the leak as I did not want to be responsible for increasing publicity for the leak any more than it had been already.
However 6 to 7 hours later I found the same post on a forum/site related to Valve news, ValveTimes.com (not to be confused with ValveTime.net), who claimed it was an exclusive post.
Then, an hour after that, the leak was also posted on Reddit.
I can’t tell who leaked this information and what was the game he was developing, but right now I’m 100% sure that Valve are investigating this leak and the guy who did this will be ‘punished’.
We hope that this leak will not very harm Valve or the publishers and developers involved in the sale.

 

[KKiONI]

If this turns out to be true, that'd be awesome. Though it would be a bit dumb of the developer to screen cap the majority of the e-mail window. If Valve keeps a record of when each one of these was sent out and to who it was sent, tracing that back wouldn't be that difficult.