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Piratey Grundy, died on a Monday..
Posted October 13th, 2008 by Coyote
I admit it...
I like spoilers.
Not in the sense where some asshat tells you that Snape kills Dumbledore "for realz yo" on the day of the book release, or that Bruce Willis is really a ghost the entire time in The Sixth Sense, but small spoilers. Tidbits that sneak out. From a picture of the Hulk on set, to an industry leaked photo of a new video game screenshot, to a degree, spoilers can be fun.
They can spur interest in a product, make you feel like you've gotten a bonus other people haven't, and all in all keep you cemented in the want for what you are getting a peak of.
But again, this is all to a degree.
I personally have already paid for my Collector's Edition copy of Fallout 3. I'm a huge fan, it is a game that I've been waiting for forever, and it comes in a metal lunchbox.
That's right, you get your own Vault Boy lunchbox and I am SO going to be mocked at work.
But I don't care.
Cool lunchboxes aren't for show. Who cares about resale value on an item you never plan to sell? It should smell like stale milk and have crumbs of some long forgotten sandwich stuck to the bottom and forced under the folded metal rim so that you can never TRULY get it clean. THIS is the purpose of a lunchbox, and without this purpose it can never get into Lunchbox Heaven...
...not that I sat daydreaming of the existence of such a magical place.
The point is, I'm getting a lunchbox, a game that I can't wait to play, and unlike SOMEONE out there, I'm not going to be killed horribly because I leaked the game to the interwebz three weeks before release date.
You dumbasses.
FALLOUT III is leaked, cracked, and already made available on the more popular torrent sites for anyone with a back-of-the-van modded Xbox 360. You can download it, load it and play it free without paying for it or the magical, wondrous lunchbox it will come in.
But I wouldn't.
I REALLY wouldn't.
Because the game's makers, Bethesda are watching, and lemme tell ya - Dude. They're PISSED.
The problem with leaks or spoilers is the fact that sometimes the leakee goes too far, draws too much attention, and ends up getting caught. Spoilers can be good in the fact that with just enough teasing, they can ramp up want for the product - for free. Spoilers are BAD however when they are the full release of a game that isn't out just yet, and only a few people have access.
Bethesda is more than pissed, in fact...
They're coming to get you Barbara...
"We're looking into it. Since we haven't sent out a single disc, it greatly reduces the number of places this might have come from." Says Bethesda VP Pete Hines as he grinds an axe made out of baby skulls and stares menacingly into the camera. (We envision.)
Way to draw even more attention to the Pirates you glory hounding dicks.
You couldn't have just kept this hush-hush on the scene? You HAD to bring it to lime light for cred, and NOW what is going to happen? Game delays? More DRM nightmares? All the crap that the non-pirates have to deal with so that your arrgging asses can get a couple of props?
Damn it.
Even though this was pirated for a GAME CONSOLE, (*NOTE* This isn't the PC version, although PC Gamers will be given the blame, as per usual) the rest of us are bound to suffer. Industry leaders don't attribute the word "Pirate" to a kid playing on his sofa. It's always guys like me at the keyboard getting our front doors kicked down and screaming that we don't even OWN an Xbox as we're thrown in a jail cell with real criminals and used as a form of currency.
Still...
Bethesda is pissed. PISSED. And they're vowing to find the source of the leak and "bring him to justice", which just SOUNDS like it involves Steven Segal and a well trained weasel. I'd reaaaally watch the downloads on this one kids, because if you think that no heads are going to roll with the leak of a major title, you're more naive than the people who were shocked when Clay Aiken came out...
Someone is going to get caught, people are going to be fired, and the whole "DRM" controversy is about to get a whole lot worse...
...even though it wasn't PC Pirates.
You bastards.
-Coyote
((And in TOTALLY unrelated news Mr. Bethesda Guy Who Is Reading This, The new AVAST YE, an unrelated pirate themed Comic is ready for viewing. - Coyote))
What Madhog said, i need my funny fix!
Where the hell is todays you slacker?
I demand a refund on my subs back NOW!
ARRG! Now my Ea games stock is going to go down! DAM PIRATES CURSE YOU!!!!! I need the stock to rise again so i can get a new labtop....
@ Badion
You are correct. The servers that host all the software that is in production are always internal servers (at least for any company with half a brain). Still, it's all hosted on servers that are available from the internal network. It's not too hard to socially engineer yourself onto the company network, and then it's just another vlan over (usually anyways).
It used to be common for fans/fanbois to try and get software/games ahead of release time. Given how things have progressed I wouldn't be surprised if it was corporate by now. I can imagine that these cartridges are already being mass produced and sold for a decent profit.
I would assume that those servers are not online.
How can they be so sure the leak was internal? I can guarantee that the game was sitting on more than one of their servers... And with fans and "businesses" both eager to get their hands on it I wouldn't be surprised if the leak came from that source, as anyone who had access to the full game knew that they could easily be blamed...
I for one HAD not problem with DRM UNTIL I read todays XKCD comic. I must say i was not well informed on how the system worked till today. So now I am anti-DRM.
Its an opinion people, it can change when information is introduced into the system.
Wait a sec, Bruce Willis was a ghost all the time?
Omg you bastard! Thanks for ruining that for me, Ive had the DVD for a few years now, I was gonna watch it tonight.
I hate you.
@Piffy, it's a LOLiday.
@ The P1R4T3Z Boo! Hiss! You're bad, bad men! (and girls too probably.)
Anyway, I heard that the Lipsticked Bulldog is blaming That One for pallying around with pirates and hacking the computer softwares. You betcha.
So ironic... I find it easier to pillage Xbox games then PC games... but I don't do that kind of thing.. my buddy sez it's easy... yarrrg..
PS. I don't pirate any more, I have accepted a pardon from the governor of North Carolina and married. Now I am a respectable addition to the community.
YAY for paid holidays.
It's one thing to leak something that has gotten into thousands of hands. But when you either a) work for them and leak it or b) hack their systems to get it? That makes you a top notch dumbass. At least it wasn't PC this time. Maybe they can start slapping DRM on the 360 games. I'm sure that's an additional expense they'd LOVE to incur.
I must admit I occassionally 'find' pirated games, but only of the games I don't really believe are worth the money, i'm talking to you Gothic 3! If the game deserves respect then I will buy it and Fallout 3 is going to be one of these. I have looked around on the 'Bay and there are a few different copies, along with the confusion about why so and so was banned from xbox live. I mean seriously, you got banned for trying to play a game online that still has two weeks until release date!! Damn some people are stupid...
I really hate it when a handful of people decide to spoil things for the rest of us. And you're right about the blame. It's always guilty until proven innocent.
what's with the 2 pics of butch women? No big boobed hotties?