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?
If SP is playable, if anything, it might make the pirates want to buy the game for MP... If they don't have the means, well it is no loss in sales for EA
/me downloads BF3 torrent...
tl;dr version: released games don't get broken immediately, if ever (for instance Crysis beta)
Well the SP of BC2 was pretty lame. Almost a direct copy of MW2 in the base plot. I can see why people like you only put 2hrs into it. Heck I played it once, never again. But I played the original BC campaign quite a few times. Was a lot more fun.
I did buy the game yall... FYI
Origin name is Nonlin.
Since the game needs Origin no one can run it. They cracked it, but once its ran Origin comes up asking for a key. Since no one has a valid key yet (less you managed to open a retail box, still only gets to be used one time) no one can play. Just helps to download early so you can install it the day it comes out and we get our keys.
Also it has a date check, but I think that's what the crack helps get rid of.
Oh! :eek: