Did Bethesda make any kind of response to the leaked footage towards their community? Will they simply let the release do the talking? As one who is somewhat excited for skyrim but does not really follow it, I'd love to know! I'm sure anyone else in my camp would love the info too .

The mods are locking all threads that even allude to it, but that's it as far as 'official' responses go.

I'm thinking today's new footage was their answer....but them I'm cynical

There's like "new footage" every ten minutes now; big difference from all the filtered PR stuff from before for sure.

We'll lock threads about the leak, but at this point mentioning it isn't sufficient. So if someone wants to discuss character animations, and people mention what they saw in the leaked video, we won't lock the thread down for that. Now if the discuss turns towards discussing the leak itself, rather than animations, it will get locked - and often a mere mention is enough to get a discussion off track.