Oh dear, the Duke won't be happy about this. It look like the aliens won't be the only ones who will get their throat an s*** load from him that is if he was real.
Duke Nukem Forever Leaks to Torrent Sites
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Is it bad when the PC crowd won't even steal your game?
More than likely the copies came from an employee at a distributor or retailer that stole a copy from the back room. That happened fairly often when I worked in retail. So much so they started locking up unreleased software in a secure area.
As far as pirates fixing buggy software, it is true. My purchased copy of Fallout 3 ran worse than pirated copies of the game.
More than likely the copies came from an employee at a distributor or retailer that stole a copy from the back room. That happened fairly often when I worked in retail. So much so they started locking up unreleased software in a secure area.
As far as pirates fixing buggy software, it is true. My purchased copy of Fallout 3 ran worse than pirated copies of the game.
Yeah, but you tell me what's easier for developers? To institute more rigorous and invasive DRM measures to protect their games. These measures usually only prolonging the inevitable. DRM measures that will only piss off honest buyers of games, or perhaps, is it easier to just develop for the console market and deal with second-hand sails project-ten-dollar style?Mr.Amakir said:
So sarcasm or no, that's ringing kind of true from where I'm standing.
I have to say this is one of the only times I have ever truly been ashamed of my pirate brethren. I don't care if it was only leaked to xbox or ps3, regardless its shameful. I hope you get whats coming to you, and by that I mean the Protect IP (PIP) ACT floating around in congress. don't know what I'm talking about? Google it, while you read sit back and watch the free information era of the internet die. acts like this only fuel the already mounting resentment towards software piracy.
I think you are all missing the big picture here... Yeah it got pirated big whoop... but wait it actually got pirated which means it's actually coming out. I was sure DNF was never actually going to come out. I thought that at the last second Gearbox would say it was just a big joke and that they canceled development on the game after they got the license.
And the demo was just from the stuff that 3D Realms had done before going under
And the demo was just from the stuff that 3D Realms had done before going under
It's sad when things like this happens.
We can look forward to more DRM in our games. Also they'll probably ignore the fact that the PC version is the only one not leaked, but still blame PC pirating for bad sales and the leaks.
This was no doubt an internal leak.
We can look forward to more DRM in our games. Also they'll probably ignore the fact that the PC version is the only one not leaked, but still blame PC pirating for bad sales and the leaks.
This was no doubt an internal leak.
You sir or madam, win the internets.ultratog1028 said:
OT: Can I use this as a rebuttal whenever in Internet conversation and I mention I'm a PC gamer and everyone says "Oh, so you must be a pirate. I'm a console gamer, we don't pirate. We respect game develepors."
No, it probably wasn't. Duke Nukem Forever is gold and the game is only released in a couple of days in Europe, so finished copies of games are already in stores, out the back ready to be brought in for launch day. Some dude/member of a warez group who is probably a friend of a gaming store employee probably bargained with them to get a copy of the game early -- then released it onto the scene.Senarrius said:
Seriously dude, homework.
It wasn't an internal leak, unless you consider Joe Gamestop Employee to be internal. Some guy opened the box early, took it home, and uploaded it. Not that surprising really.
I don't know why this would be a surprise to anyone.
I don't know why this would be a surprise to anyone.
The ironic part is that the Pirates think they're being clever and sneaky when all they're doing is hurting their chances for a sequel. How long was this game in development? Oh yeah, 13 fucking years, I'm sure the whoever publishes the next game will be SOOOOOOO eager invest in a sequel to a game that was pirated before launch.
Welp, that's what happens when you abuse your freedoms. Too many twelve-year-olds out there thinking they can take something that doesn't belong to them and make it all better with a rationalization they came up with in five seconds. World doesn't work that way.Lordedubs said:
Anyway, if it was a Gearbox employee that leaked this thing, I'd like to ask him something in case he's reading this. Namely, WTF were you thinking? This is your livelihood and you're going to jeopardize the sales of your big new game and your freaking job just because of some misguided notion that "information wants to be free" or whatever crack you're smoking?
A small part of me is still in denial believing that this was just another massive scale hoax in the long history of faking it for the Duke, but if the full game has been released on pirate then I guess thats absolute proof that it's been made. Bravo.