So...two guys just made off with 6000 copies of MW3
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People actually care about playing the next samey shooter *that* badly? What is wrong with you, human race? You used to be cool.
Can't blame him - they're milking the franchise by even creating a new one and the new child death ploy screams No Russian.Phlakes said:
This reminds of the guy a while back who robbed a Gamestop & got a whole bunch of MW2 copies. (600 I think). What's with people & stealing COD games? Either way having your game robbed twice is amazing PR regardless of rather or not it's set up.
Am I the only one that wishes that one hijacker was a fat old guy in a Santa suit and the other a midget in an elf costume?
I'm certainly glad that no one will blame video games for this. Ha ha thanks a lot you damn french thieves!
This robbery (as funny as it is) is rather pointless.
The game is going to be released in what, a week? I believe I read that Microsoft is banning anyone who has this game in their play history early from XBL, and I mean come on...who really would pay ungodly sums of money to play a game a few days early? Not I...
The game is going to be released in what, a week? I believe I read that Microsoft is banning anyone who has this game in their play history early from XBL, and I mean come on...who really would pay ungodly sums of money to play a game a few days early? Not I...
You don't need to be a professional criminal to fence stolen goods these days. I would imagine that it would be fairly easy to sell the copies a few at a time over the next month, either selling them online or selling them "back" to small gaming stores.Fieldy409 said:
Do they have some way of identifying which copies are stolen? (i.e. serial numbers between x and y were in that shipment)
I wouldn't be surprised if they can narrow down the range of CD keys in that delivery and just cancel them.
What's most amusing about this is, if caught, the thieves probably stand to get a lesser sentence than someone who downloaded a single pirated copy
What's most amusing about this is, if caught, the thieves probably stand to get a lesser sentence than someone who downloaded a single pirated copy
I'm not sure the actual hijackers were desperate to play the game. Like you said, it was worth a lot of money and probably not guarded too heavily (just one dude driving). If someone is willing ot pay over a grand for one copy on eBay then stuff like this is bound to happen.
Wait, wait, wait, got some appropriate music for this...
Thar we go.
Anyway, if they are smart, they could make millions. If they sell each copy online for $200 US, they could walk away with a cool million from this, if not more. That is, if they are smart. Still, it is rather interesting to watch people risk jail time to steal more copies of MW3 than anyone would ever need.
Thar we go.
Anyway, if they are smart, they could make millions. If they sell each copy online for $200 US, they could walk away with a cool million from this, if not more. That is, if they are smart. Still, it is rather interesting to watch people risk jail time to steal more copies of MW3 than anyone would ever need.
People steal merchandise worth over $500,000 and peoples responses are "They must really want to play the game"? I have this strange feeling that they may be planning to, you know, earn money from 6,000 stolen games rather than committing armed robbery to get a copy for themselves. Worst case scenario for them (bar getting caught of course): They sell them off over an extended period of time over the Internet and as used games. At $20/game (which seems conservative to me) that's $120,000. Is it the most profitable robbery? No, but it was apparantly very easy and safe to do, and the stuff they stole isn't that hard to sell.
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"Ho ! Those wacky non-english people ! Aren't they weird ? Ha ha ha ha..."