Bethesda’s Fallout with pirates |
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BY Lee Bradley Oct. 11th, 2008 |
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No sooner do we announce that Fallout 3 has gone gold than copies of the Xbox 360 version have popped up on the net. With a couple of weeks still to go until release, dirty downloaders are getting their grubby mitts on the game early through a number of Torrent sites. Unsurprisingly, Bethesda isn’t best pleased about it, and is on the track of the culprit.
“We’re looking into it. Since we haven’t sent out a single disc, it greatly reduces the number of places this might have come from,” says Bethesda Vice President Pete Hines. Looks like somebody may be getting an unfriendly knock at their door this weekend.
Pirated copies of Xbox 360 games are becoming an increasing trend with Saints Row 2, NBA 2k9, Blitz: The League and Fracture recently suffering the same fate. Obviously, it’s not something we agree with here at TVGB. We prefer to pay for our games. But how do you feel about it? Piracy is crippling the PC gaming market, is this the death-knell for console gaming? Or is it just the reality of digital based media these days. Let us know what you think.
October 11th, 2008
at 5:51 pm
Maybe stopping spreading the information by not talking about it on every website might be a first step?…
Making responsible article saying how pirates and people doing so SUCK HARD every time would be a good point to. Let’s call a cat a cat, and pirating is an act of stilling, and should be consider for what it is, should be blame because it’s just destroying the Hard work of peoples wich took few years to make in few minutes…
October 11th, 2008
at 7:00 pm
Oh stop it and use your head. It’s not like any sites reporting this are giving out links and instructions or anything. People who are going to pirate this will do it regardless. And I do believe you need a modified console without online capabilities to run a pirated 360 game.
October 11th, 2008
at 7:48 pm
Just a touch on the early side to say “death knell”, “console gaming” and “piracy” in the same sentence. Now, if someone starts cranking out cheap pre-modded next gen systems or incredibly easy to install mods, then maybe. I think the main thing difference between consoles and PC’s as far as piracy goes is just work. You can download a PC game, bang, there’s no more difficulty involved than running a crack or moving files in most cases. Consoles, there’s soldering or otherwise cracking the case open, which is just more work than the great majority of console buyers would want to get into. I’m not saying that console gaming is pirate proof, hence the above, but I really doubt it’ll ever be as rampant as PC piracy. There’s just too much work on the consumer’s end for it to get popular.
October 22nd, 2008
at 11:55 am
I have to admit that I am a touch jealous of the pirates. I pay for my games as well, but I wouldn’t mind a peak at Fallout 3 myself.
More importantly, I think Los is right. Piracy may be an annoyance, but console gaming is, if anything, on the rise. Rockstar isn’t having trouble making a profit off of GTA, and Bungie did all right with Halo 3. So no, I’m not worried about piracy. If a game like Fallout fails to go gold due to piracy, then Bethesda will have problems. For now, I think their financial state is secure.