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?
Very nice backup plan.
Or they know it is so good that everyone that tries it on this "unofficial demo" torrent and like it would buy it as normal torrent users do. This way they can save on distribution, get free publicity "stunt" and reach people that would never have bought it. Nothing like a scandal to get free press.
Brilliant marketing move Dice. Either way they win witch ever way the wind blows.
But DICE probably doesn't care that much, and as you said, they can spin it to their advantage.
here is some breaking news : this has been happening since internet around *shock*
tomorrow i can read the latest apple ipad rumours on here also i bet, whatever generates traffic
Portal 2 via steamworks had no .exe until release day and no one was playing it before release.
Why UBI use shite DRM is beyond me. They need to look at the facts.
Can't wait for BF3 :rockout:, I hope my Joystick works on release or i'll be doing my nut! :banghead:
Hell, I'm not poorNever mind, never mind !Anyway, the word "afford" doesn't exist in pirates' dictionary. Want Win 7 ? Just google Win 7 Crack/Keygen/etc. I still remember having these pop out on top of search suggestions :rolleyes:
if this game won't work on xp they'll loose a lot of future buyers;when xp is still at around 50% is not normal to ignore such a big market
i have both os however many not...
Altho, I hazard BF3 would run like a bat on my new machine, if it did support XP64... And I will be running XP64 on the new box, as I am fond of how smoothly some program run. It will be interesting if I load the same games on both OS's to see how much of a diff in framerate I get.....