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Andy, you better be getting the PC version as well - It's all the rave.

He should! He's got the PC for it! :D

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So that's not even an excuse, Neowin shouldn't allow that either then.

The offical EA forums aren't closing threads of people who bought the game from "mom & pop" stores. Here is Repi posting in a pre-release thread.

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This is not up for debate. People who say "well the rules need to change" I can tell you right now they will not. It is not just about games. It is if we allow pirated games to be discussed then someone cries why cant I discuss my pirated movie or my pirated operating system or whatever it may be.

GO TO ANOTHER FORUM if it pains you that much to wait a day until release. Seriously problem solved for you.

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Thread Cleaned again and some warnings handed out.

Also it is fine to talk about a game if a site like a Kotaku is reporting on the fact it has broken street date.

But claiming other forums, I just do not care and forums are not a legit source, as who knows who is telling the truth and who is not. Not only that but they just may not have proper moderation yet, I really do not know nor do I care, the only forums I worry about are here.

If you guys cannot respect that, especially some of you long standing members, I am not sure what to tell you. I really am not. I really do not appreciate you making Anaron and my life miserable over something that should be so cut and dry with no question at all.

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Nobody is pirating the game if we bought it and it arrives early, this is my whole point!!

I preordered from Amazon who use free delivery, so my copy will arrive on the 5th if I'm lucky, but I can't wait to get home & posts examples of me receiving games/gadgets earlier than release. This is ridiculous that people are being branded pirates when we haven't done anything!

How do you explain me seeing Avatar the day before launch at the cinema?! I'm not a fricking magician

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DM & myself aren't about talking about pirated games.

Yeah you are talking about early releases and mom and pop stores. I heard you loud and clear. See what I said above.

Official date is Tuesday. What is so hard about that? In fact that gives some of you in EU who may or may not have pirated copies a full two days to discuss it.

All we are doing is enforcing rules. Rules we did not make but we were asked to enforce. That is all.

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Nobody is pirating the game if we bought it and it arrives early, this is my whole point!!

I preordered from Amazon who use free delivery, so my copy will arrive on the 5th if I'm lucky, but I can't wait to get home & posts examples of me receiving games/gadgets earlier than release. This is ridiculous that people are being branded pirates when we haven't done anything!

How do you explain me seeing Avatar the day before launch at the cinema?! I'm not a fricking magician

DM, I think what Larry is trying to enforce is the fact that even if you do get it early (which, at this point, makes it 1 day before street) that they don't want discussion about, period. If someone gets the game today in the mail, why can't said person just hold off until tomorrow? Then everyone can jump in the discussion. In my opinion, I think that is the only way they can go about keeping things legit - they can't just rely on someone saying "I got it early in post."

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Nobody is pirating the game if we bought it and it arrives early, this is my whole point!!

I preordered from Amazon who use free delivery, so my copy will arrive on the 5th if I'm lucky, but I can't wait to get home & posts examples of me receiving games/gadgets earlier than release. This is ridiculous that people are being branded pirates when we haven't done anything!

How do you explain me seeing Avatar the day before launch at the cinema?! I'm not a fricking magician

But neither of you have the game do you??? Like in your hands a LEGIT copy right now???? If you did maybe we could talk, but you do not have the game in your hand right now do you???

I myself have discussed when a street date has been broken, if it happens it happens, but it has not happened yet for either of you has it??? Just people on other forums right???? Again I do not care about other forums.

So this is what I do not get. You are arguing about something neither of you can provide right now... a legit street broken copy. Not only that, you are arguing about it less than 12 hours before you are officially allowed to talk about the game????

Just give it a rest already. Please.

As soloredd just pointed out, by leaving things the way they are, it creates a level playing field for all members involved. If you guys notice, only about 3-5 of you are making a fuss about this no talk early thing, the rest either do not agree with it or just accept it and move on. Because it is what it is.

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DM, I think what Larry is trying to enforce is the fact that even if you do get it early (which, at this point, makes it 1 day before street) that they don't want discussion about, period.

Naturally so.. I am pretty sure these rules exist because the site can be sued and actually lose to game publisher because of discussions of a product that is not officially out yet. Whether or not it will happen it's another thing but as soon as the site is of higher profile like Neowin, the rule is there to prevent any possibility of legal issues arising.

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Guys, seriously there's something to be said of other forums when they moderate topics like these. Usually it's "Not until tomorrow, end of discussion" and anyone attempting to create new topics or question the moderators there are usually thrown out on their arse.

So give our guys a break and stop whinging about it. The moderators have attempted to explain our stance on this, if can't accept it, please find somewhere else to talk about it.

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DM, I think what Larry is trying to enforce is the fact that even if you do get it early (which, at this point, makes it 1 day before street) that they don't want discussion about, period. If someone gets the game today in the mail, why can't said person just hold off until tomorrow? Then everyone can jump in the discussion. In my opinion, I think that is the only way they can go about keeping things legit - they can't just rely on someone saying "I got it early in post."

Thank you.

All we are saying is it makes it so there is no shenanigans and no doubt about anything. next thing you know we will have a bunch of people photoshopping fake receipts. If you cannot wait what is less than 24 hours now, when all normal people will be playing it, join another forum where you can discuss it. That is all I can suggest at this point.

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even if you were to get it early (atleast pc version) you can't play it til 10am pacific on march 2nd

Guys, seriously there's something to be said of other forums when they moderate topics like these. Usually it's "Not until tomorrow, end of discussion" and anyone attempting to create new topics or question the moderators there are usually thrown out on their arse.

So give our guys a break and stop whinging about it. The moderators have attempted to explain our stance on this, if can't accept it, please find somewhere else to talk about it.

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If you cannot wait what is less than 24 hours now, when all normal people will be playing it

Erm...You're saying anyone who lives in the EU is abnormal?

Lock the thread till 5th of March if you want to restrain all discussion of the topic before release.

Side note:

Should we create a poll to survey how many people are buying this for xbox, ps3, pc?

It might be interesting to see which way the numbers are swinging.

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All we are saying is it makes it so there is no shenanigans and no doubt about anything. next thing you know we will have a bunch of people photoshopping fake receipts. If you cannot wait what is less than 24 hours now, when all normal people will be playing it, join another forum where you can discuss it. That is all I can suggest at this point.

Don't tell me this isn't real! - It has the date and the game name!

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Erm...You're saying anyone who lives in the EU is abnormal?

Lock the thread till 5th of March if you want to restrain all discussion of the topic before release.

Side note:

Should we create a poll to survey how many people are buying this for xbox, ps3, pc?

It might be interesting to see which way the numbers are swinging.

Yeah, I am saying all the people in the EU are abnormal. :rolleyes:

And okay, we will lock the thread and punish the members who can follow the rules?? Again, we have had what is now over 75 pages of discussion without having to lock a thread.

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