Monday, October 17th 2011
Battlefield 3 Torrent Leak: An Inside Job?
DICE's PC version has been leaked to various torrent sites almost two weeks before release on October 28th, with console versions being safe for now, DSOGaming reports. This is perhaps unsurprising because most, if not all high profile games are leaked early one way or another. It looks like it might have possibly been done by a retailer - but why would they risk reducing sales of the product like this? Perhaps a disgruntled employee? We can only speculate. Apparently, the single player campaign is fully playable and the file size weighs in at around 10GB.
The one thing that seems to hold true about such situations, as undesirable as they are, is that a game's success will be on its own merit, regardless of how much it has been downloaded illegally. No doubt though, however large the profits from this game turn out to be (and they're likely to be substantial for this triple A title) the publishers will complain that they would have been even bigger without piracy, but without being able to offer any actual proof of this, of course.
Source:
DSOGaming
The one thing that seems to hold true about such situations, as undesirable as they are, is that a game's success will be on its own merit, regardless of how much it has been downloaded illegally. No doubt though, however large the profits from this game turn out to be (and they're likely to be substantial for this triple A title) the publishers will complain that they would have been even bigger without piracy, but without being able to offer any actual proof of this, of course.
96 Comments on Battlefield 3 Torrent Leak: An Inside Job?
So they must feed on even the poorest of people who can't afford the $60 a game plus $15+$15+$15...etc.. for DLC.
But yeah I'd say I have an addiction to games as well. I'm always trying to find something to play and convince myself I have time to play them when in reality I shouldn't.
au.games.ign.com/articles/120/1200005p1.html
cause I can definitely agree with you on that one, but there are a few gems of hope out there and I hope Battlefield 3 is definitely one of those shining lights. I've been let down before aka Crytek and the early leak from it's disgruntled employee for it's PC version said a lot to me in a way that the game isn't going to be a Crysis game but instead another sheep in the herd.
6 Co-Op Levels
9 MP Maps
and 12 SP Maps.
I can post this right? I got it from some site I'm pretty sure I can't post. So I won't.
Is this whats been confirmed so far?
Heck I have all the CoD's back to 2 and well I pretty much buy them FOR the SP.
I am looking forward to the SP in BF3 and even more so the Co-op(My first real online gaming was playing Co-op in Ghost Recon)
After seeing the Thunder Run and Operation Faultline trailers it looks like its gonna be pretty good. It really will be the real showcase of the engine because like most MP games they have to make sacrifices somewhere to keep it smooth online.
Am I gonna risk the torrent to play the SP now? NOPE not a chance I will play it the day it comes out(You know the MP is gonna be a total zoo anyway) Then I am gonna play some Co-op with friends and get me some unlocks.
THEN I am gonna play the bejeebus outta MP.:rockout:
the sheer amount of posters screaming "OMG Y U NO WORK ON WIN XP" gave me some great amusement.
If your still on XP you deserve all problems that you encounter.:nutkick:
Seriously they need to move on.. from ten year old windows
The poor of course...
Can't afford Win 7 PC can't afford games... but they still want to play em. They come off as idiots but really... they are just unfortunate.