Fallout 3 review copy leaks

[Draken]

Last week Bethesda invited some selected press members to play the game for 4 hours, it seems someone stole a copy :o

I'm not encouraging piracy, anyway feel free to remove it :yes:

[.KICK]

I don't see the point of this topic? Games get leaked all the time, what makes this any different. Game is out soon anyway so looking forward to it :)

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

Ohhh the seas of banning MS will be doing from this :p

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

Ohhh the seas of banning MS will be doing from this :p

Why, it's not like it's their game

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

Why, it's not like it's their game

Uhhh obvious reasons?

It's a review copy, most likely not final.

Hundreds, if not thousands of 360's playing a review copy? Kind of obvious those 360's are modded with firmware :p

If it were a retail copy, they probably couldn't do ****, unless the rip was bad.

[Brad.]

Uhhh obvious reasons?

It's a review copy, most likely not final.

Hundreds, if not thousands of 360's playing a review copy? Kind of obvious those 360's are modded with firmware :p

If it were a retail copy, they probably couldn't do ****, unless the rip was bad.

Afaik MS tracks people who play a game with the same signature? For example, if every retail disc has a unique signature then if there's hundreds/thousands of people playing a game with the same signature then they'd know who's playing pirated games.

[kazuyette]

What the point of this thread ? As someone said, games are leaked all the time before the official release.

IBTL ... :ninja:

[Draken]

I meant it was ''so true'' that he should have kept that comment to himself. I don't play pirated games nor have I got a modded 360 in any way.

I was saying that to JonathanVP too :rolleyes:

and yes, I can see the ban hammer :wacko:

[DrunknMunky Veteran]

Uhhh obvious reasons?

It's a review copy, most likely not final.

Hundreds, if not thousands of 360's playing a review copy? Kind of obvious those 360's are modded with firmware :p

If it were a retail copy, they probably couldn't do ****, unless the rip was bad.

The game went gold yesterday, it very well could be a final copy of the code. As the leak has XBL disabled (which doesn't matter when there is no multiplayer) = no reason to sign in anyway.

[Draken]

What the point of this thread ? As someone said, games are leaked all the time before the official release.

IBTL ... :ninja:

The point is hmmm like Gollum said: "it's my birthday and I want it" :p

The game went gold yesterday, it very well could be a final copy of the code. As the leak has XBL disabled (which doesn't matter when there is no multiplayer) = no reason to sign in anyway.

Everyone who downloaded it said there are not "beta" or any other "not final" tags on it, anyway I'm not taking any risks :no:

[IceBreakerG]

What I find interesting in all of this is the file size. Only 6.5GB for a game I thought was going to be huge. Not bad. Their compression must be very very good.

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

Afaik MS tracks people who play a game with the same signature? For example, if every retail disc has a unique signature then if there's hundreds/thousands of people playing a game with the same signature then they'd know who's playing pirated games.

Retail games don't all have different signatures.

The CRC of a retail disc is the same for every disc within the same region.

If this copy of Fallout 3 ain't retail, then the CRC will track back to a review/beta build, something which none of the public should have access to outside of 1 or 2 people - Or a bunch of consoles within a specific building, say the 1UP offices.

The CRC of the review copy may or may not be limited to 1 disc, or a collection of say up to 12? review copies sent out to press.

Either way it's an obvious give away running a beta/review build of a game if you're average joe, not located within Gamespot offices.

Doesn't matter if you play offline, the saved files/achievement tags/any details of the game left on the system will all be associated/tagged with a beta/review build. All of which is updated to the servers when you connect online.

[Draken]

What I find interesting in all of this is the file size. Only 6.5GB for a game I thought was going to be huge. Not bad. Their compression must be very very good.

Every 360 game is 7.4GB which compresses between 6.4GB -6.8GB, that's because the "EXE" (XBX) signature needs it to be like that, remember that the 360 can't run unsigned/altered code, to find the real space you have to extract all files within the disk image

[+Mystic MVC]

What I find interesting in all of this is the file size. Only 6.5GB for a game I thought was going to be huge. Not bad. Their compression must be very very good.

See Draken's comment.

Every 360 game is 7.4GB which compresses between 6.4GB -6.8GB, that's because the "EXE" (XBX) signature needs it to be like that, remember that the 360 can't run unsigned/altered code, to find the real space you have to extract all files within the disk image

I was just about to post this. :p

With the game going gold just recently, it sounds like this would be the full version but I'm sure all the piraters will be complaining soon once they find out if it really is just a reviewer's build.

[Akaruz]

I bet they did on purpose to get some free advertisement

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

I bet they did on purpose to get some free advertisement

One of the most anticipated games needs free advertisement in the form of the game leaking almost 3 weeks early and being spoiled to hell and back all over the web?

Yeah, sure :laugh:

[Draken]

Wow Far Cry 2 retail leaked too!!! :o :o and :o

[darren89]

Wow Far Cry 2 retail leaked too!!! :o :o and :o

wow....leaked games so fast..

are you kidding me? :/

source?

[Yusuf M. Veteran]

This is not good. At least it's not the PC version. Now that would've been... bad.

[Draken]

wow....leaked games so fast..

are you kidding me? :/

source?

Source? that dark Xbox torrent site ...... and some 15 seeders - 280 lecheers ;)

[theyarecomingforyou]

I'm just hopeful that Fallout 3 will be released on Steam, as there was a suggestion from an interview that it would be. Still, it's disappointing that piracy exists as it only hurts legitimate users - the PC is suffering a lot from piracy, what with DRM and with multi-platform games being deliberately delayed.

[seethru]

Source? that dark Xbox torrent site ...... and some 15 seeders - 280 lecheers ;)

Not really a great source, there are definitely better ones out there and none of my 'sources' are confirming this leak.

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

Fable.2.READNFO.XBOX360-Seed4ME

:o

!!!

[Draken]

Fable.2.READNFO.XBOX360-Seed4ME

:o

!!!

:o !!! nice joke ;)

[+Audioboxer Subscriber²]

:o !!! nice joke ;)

:rofl:

Just wanted to send all the pirates scurrying to check their "high level" sources to enquire the validity of the leak... just to come back running saying "FAKE" "MY SOURCES HAVE NOTHING", etc, etc :p