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?
I can see DICE reps saying "what is torrent? in Sweden, we have to much money to pirate"
Qubit is doing a great job, bringing a different point of view.
BF3 is probably the most anticipated game at TPU, and the damn thing is pirated over a week before the release date. Not that many games get leaked early, and if they do, it is days before, maybe a week but rarely more. Combined with EA taking any excuse to leave us in the dust, this is news... Probably bad news for us. The only good news is that now we can pre-load the game early.
If you didn't care about this news, ya didn't have to read it, or post in it. This is no speculation, this happened, it doesn't say "rumors have it someone is going to leak it tomorrow". BTW, if it generates traffic, that would mean PEOPLE CARED ABOUT THIS NEWS
Haha, there is more Qubit love then I thought :p I'm not saying to not
criticizecritique him, just do it in a constructive manner.I don't think anyone was saying he shouldn't be critiqued ( I think criticized is a little more personal ), the editorials are his opinion and IMO are meant to foster debate and discussion. But it needs to be done in a positive manner, not in a way where he is personally attacked because you don't share his views (not saying you were just speaking in generality). All are free to give their opinion, but just because you have anonymity, doesn't mean you have to be an ass about it people. Now debating what is and isn't news, is another thing all together if you dislike what is posted here feel free to get your news elsewhere.
But I digress, and will simply say in general I agree with you.:D
It would basically be a demo personally since MP is generally a huge part of shooters.
Unfortunately I am nothing but canon fodder in shooters so I tend to keep to racing games.
Fine if you don't mind playing with just friends I guess.