Article by Ryan Lord

Fallout 3 isn't launching until Oct. 28, but the Xbox 360 version of the highly anticipated sequel has already been leaked and has found its way on to torrent sites.

http://www.tomsgames.com/us/2008/1 [...] t3_leaked/

I wonder how the developers who say that the PC is the most pirated system out there feels about this...

Care to comment Cryteck or Ubisoft?

In an interesting development, people are actually fighting the distribution of this torrent by uploading corrupt versions of the iso that that anyone whom torrents from them get stuck at 99.9%... that's right, Pirates fighting Pirates.

It really is a shame to pirate this game. Give credit where credit it due and buy the game.

I will buy this game as it is definitely worthy of a purchase, but I can't help but sit here and grin about this situation. Don't get me wrong, as I stated before Bethesda is a great company that I respect and Fallout 3 is going to be an awesome game. However, I love how a lot of companies lately have been complaining so adamantly that piracy is killing the PC platform. It's seemed like they have turned a blind eye towards console piracy and it is going to hit them like a truck soon. If they believe that moving off the PC platform to consoles is a solution to stop piracy they are in for a world of hurt. Console games have been pirated since the Playstation was introduced so this is no new development. I think the reason that console piracy is becoming a more obvious problem is that people are starting to pirate it a lot more. As fewer games get released for the PC, these PC pirates are going to move to the console and do the same thing. The main draw of pirating a console version of a game is that you can still play it online with other legitimate users. The PC versions are not capable of this because each one requires a unique serial key. Once you get a firmware modification or chip installed, console piracy is totally unlocked because there are no protections.

Have fun devs/publishers, DRM and the slowing of the PC platform has brought this on you. There are no other platform options left.

As Travis sarcastically stated upon hearing this news, "That will teach you developers to make a game we want! We'll go an pirate it! Yay!!!!!"

I cannot believe how some gamers treat the companies that make the games they love. And then to go online and boast about with video and screenshots? This is just sad and pathetic....

Yes, who would have thought spending millions on advertising, splattering images on billboards, in magazines and hyping up a game for 3 years would drive fans into a frenzy for the product.

At the end of the day, it wont truly hurt Beths sales. Fans who wanted the game will still buy the game, and people that had no intention of ever buying the game will have torrented it eventually, rented it or simply never played it.

If Fallout 3 lives up to even half of the hype, I am confident it will be the best selling game of 2008.

Even though I feel bad for bethesda getting their game pirated (especially because it has the potential to be Game of the Year), I'm actually happy that these kind of news are spreading about console piracy to the developers and publishers, since they chose to turn a blind eye to it and only focus on PC. Like a guy above me said, it's gonna hit them like a truck and it won't be pretty when it happens.

This is a really unfortunate situation no matter what. I really wish Bethesda luck in finding the source of the leak, they worked their butts off on this game.

There was never any doubt that console piracy would eventually reach the level of PC piracy. I must say I'm a little surprised it's becoming this public this soon. I'm sure the next editions of game consoles will up the ante which will further spur pirates to do their thing. A never ending story indeed.

I think in most cases people do this to get the game first as opposed to getting it free.

I just want to hear a response from some of the big publishers as someone already said on console piracy. Hopefully this is a turning point where they realize that punishing the pc gamer is not the way to go, because it solves nothing. I would think that simple online verification of the console games could alleviate some of this. But then people would complain who don't/can't hook their consoles up to the internet. This could mean trouble for everyone in the future. Let's all hope not though.

Die pirating scum die. (for once not directed at a forum member)



yet.

I'm very tempted to download a pirate version of this but i'm not going to - i'd much rather pay my £40 to encourage Bethesda to keep creating fantastic games

I'm not interested in flashing my Xbox360, and I think Bethesda is a developer worth supporting. I currently don't plan on getting this game because it sounds like it's really just Oblivion in a Fallout setting. There are too many other titles coming out, but I may end up picking up Fallout 3 if the reviews are very good.