Sims 3 Leaked Online

[S.H.A.R.P.]

Ghehe yeah I saw it one or two days ago on a reliable torrent site. I didn't pirate it, not specifically because I'm a good boy, but more because I am not going to touch it even if it was given to me. Still, I was surprised to see it so soon, without even knowing it was going to be published!

This leak could hurt the sale of the game. Consider all those kids playing it, realising it sucks big time (big prejudice, I know), and saying to everybody not to buy the game. Sims 3 can be condemned even before it is released properly!

That, or it might actually be good, and the official sales can be higher than ever. What in fact if this is leaked on purpose? In stead of spending millions on a PR campaign, why not let it out to the public, create a major media buzz because your game is being pirated before release, and voila! Free publicity!

 

[m_jim]

Irrelevant, the Internet is a 24-hour McDonald's; complete anonymity, a sense of shame, and it makes your arteries clog and your thighs widen.

Complete anonymity? You do know how IP addresses work, right?

 

[Cubilone]

Yeah. It's not like it is some minor game or anything. How many times are we going to repeat it though? Piracy is totally irrelevant with DRM.

 

[Jursa]

Wow, first spore, now this. EA you have a leak

Ye it is starting to seem a tad suspicious.

 

[Fanboy]

Hmmm. Not really sure how much this will affect EA's sales, but it can't be a good thing. Although honestly I don't see the target audience as being particularly tech-savvy and/or caring enough to bother with such things as Torrent Software. I could be wrong though, and I probably am, but I hope for EA's sake I'm not.

 

[scotth266]

Snip

You know what? When you typed the sentence that said: Pirated copies != lost sales, you lost what little credibility I had given you.

That's a blatant bit of silliness. I mean, really now. How can pirated copies not equal lost sales? It just doesn't make sense from a buisness perspective.

Heh, "but they weren't gonna buy it anyway", I hate that line drives me nuts, if your not gonna buy it then you have no right to possess it. But people who steal things will do anything to justify it, be it though some asinine IP or ownership argument or say it's cause of DRM or "demo".

Thank god, someone that makes sense, someone that understands. It's been madness here, I tell you...

 

[Asehujiko]

Serves EA right for being fucking liars and shipping this game with Securom despite loudly proclaiming that they didn't.

 

[Istickell]

This wouldn't have happened if they made Mario.

 

[Susan Arendt]

how depressing...

I agree. I know the world is filled with all sorts of people, but really. It takes a jerk to pirate games. Whatever happened to supporting things we liked with our money?

You don't have to be evil to be cheap or want free stuff.
It is a shame people steal things, but this particular situation isn't much to fret over. EA will still make tons of money with this game no matter what.

You don't have to be evil to be cheap or want free stuff, no. But doing something about it like pirating the game? Yeah, that makes you a big fat jerk. Yes, EA will make pots of cash from The Sims 3, but that doesn't give anyone the justification for stealing.

 

[Kajt]

Why would people want to pirate games made by EA?
Seriously, if you're going to pirate a game, pirate a GOOD game!

 

[dirk45]

Serves EA right for being fucking liars and shipping this game with Securom despite loudly proclaiming that they didn't.

No, it doesn't. Whatever they are saying or doing, pirating games has nothing to do with protesting against DRM but with breaking laws and destroying people's business. Maybe it's not EA that is hurt but the small games shop at the corner who has ordered 50 copies and can't sell them due to illegal copies.

 

[Gather]

Time for EA to send out online activation copy protection (At least, again. Anyway...)?

Edit: Could just be something simple like asking a web server the date to ensure that the game is only played after the release date

 

[Inuprince]

The sims 3 will still make enough money to buy half of England

I couldn't have said it better myself
+ When you think about how much expansion packs they are going to come out with, in the future, to them this leak is really just a tip of a needle.

 

[A Raging Emo]

Not. Another. SIMS GAME!!!

 

[johnman]

The sims 3 will still make enough money to buy half of England, at work we sold 5 computers in the last month alone with the sole intention of using them to play the sims 3. But its the principle that counts and the pirates are encouraging Ea to use Dracaion DRM by doing this sort of thing. They are greedy twats who will happily undermine the cause they and so many of us have worked on.
But its also obvious there is an insider that Ea need to find and fast.

Now, wait a second. First of all, we all know the Sims will be a major commercial success. But you're saying greedy pirates are encouraging DRM? Now, correct me if I'm wrong, but DRM writes an image to the disk that prevents the program from being installed more than three times. That does absolutely nothing to prevent piracy, and, instead, it prevents the game from being resold in legitimate second hand game markets. The Sims is going to be a major commercial success, and you're saying they're going to use that success as an excuse to destroy a legitimate market? But... the pirates here are greedy. Explain all this to me, and try to make it make sense this time.

There is more than the one form of DRM, and Ea introduced it to help cut back on piracy, as well as the second hand sales. I dont know how I can make my original post any clearer, and judging for the people I've seen agreeing with me you the only one who didn't understand.

 

[Fingerprint]

Wow, first spore, now this. EA you have a leak

Call the plumber!

wheres Mario when you need him...?

Off saving that bloody princess again...

Oh will he ever learn? Silly Mario

We can only hope. At this rate I can picture him in a mental home, in a padded cell, bouncing off the walls and it'd all be because his girlfriends kept getting captured.

 

[maddog015]

Time for EA to send out online activation copy protection (At least, again. Anyway...)?

Edit: Could just be something simple like asking a web server the date to ensure that the game is only played after the release date

Problem with that is people find ways around it. Probably every pirated game has a crack and/or explains a way around the registration process. Hard to create a security system when you have hundreds working on breaking it.

 

[ultimateownage]

The only thing I want to see pirated at the moment is duke nukem forever, at least give us the several duke nukem forever games you almost finished. I should make a thread about that.

Could just be something simple like asking a web server the date to ensure that the game is only played after the release date

No way, that happened with steam, i bought saints row 2 for the pc and it was delivered 3 days early, it used steam so it just gave me the codes do download it from steam, it wouldn't let me install it because "this games has not been released in your country" bastards.

 

[TsunamiWombat]

Can we put a nail in the coffin of "I ONLY PIRATE TO PUNISH BIG BAD COMPANIES GRR" arguement now?