Console games leaked to p2p networks before Official Launch!

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Oh come on ! The Xbox 360 is meant to be used to play online with others, not with yourself ! For that you need legit games.

And this is the reason why we do not have the latest Xbox 360 consoles here in India. We have only ourselves to blame if Microsoft considers India to be an unimportant market due to the rampant modding of consoles.
 
Dude games are priced really high consider buying a game worth Rs. 2500 every month youll be spending 2500*12=30000 So basically you'll be spending more than what you spent on your console and yet have only 12 games. If games were priced properly trust me noone would dl games. If the games were lets say reasonably priced at 700-800. It would be way better.
 
I hope this does not become another Piracy Vs Legit thread.. But the only thing that will bring down the prices is that if they see more volumes in sales.... IF they think very few are going to buy the legit games anyways .. why wud they try to bring the prices down.....

I agree 2500+ for a single game is a bit expensive but its less compared to the US price of 60$ .... Atleast its not like the console prices where we are paying almost twice the price of the console abroad...

The games prices are slowly coming down... Initially al XBox 360 games were priced at 2510 then the prices to a point where most new release were being sold at 1999(most of them..not all).

The prices have gone up again because of the dollar rates....

So we should have patience .. Sure at 2500 per game we won't be able to purchase every game coming out this holiday season .. but if we do not buy legit copies the few publishers/distributers that actually make it to Indian shores will also stop coming....
 
coolmint said:
I wonder who is behind all these releases :P
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He is :

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game publishers are not paying well their employees..thats why they join hands with the pirate..or this may be a decoy to catch the pirate gang
 
KingKrool said:
Ah, what you forget is that with the XBOX, to play these pirated games, you tend to lose out on a lot of the experience (online stuff).
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even a pirated pc game cant be played online, else WOW would have been royally ripped
 
pcgamer said:
even a pirated pc game cant be played online, else WOW would have been royally ripped
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buddy... ever heard of Garena???

they recenlty added the feature to play games like COD4 and COD5, TF2 ,BF2 ,RA3 to be played online through their platform for free.... apart from the already existing cs,warcraft etc

and oh ... i almost fuhgot... YOU DO NOT NEED GENUINE GAMES TO PLAY THERE....

(Perfect example of daylight robbery i would say....)

N yea there are also millions of hacked servers for wow... some of which seem to b very popular...
 
BF1983 said:
Oh come on ! The Xbox 360 is meant to be used to play online with others, not with yourself ! For that you need legit games.
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:rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl: :rofl:

Er.. nvm...lol... but on a serious note.. piracy is possible anywhere.. i dont see how the xbox is gonna stop that.. they will be cutting off a lot of PC Gamers.... this is honestly really sad..:(
 
SoMxNemesis said:
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Er.. nvm...lol... but on a serious note.. piracy is possible anywhere.. i dont see how the xbox is gonna stop that.. they will be cutting off a lot of PC Gamers.... this is honestly really sad..:(
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It not that the Xbox is going to stop piracy. But since game companies dont sell too many legit copies since on the PC its soo easy to pirate a game, they turn to consoles where the sales are almost as high but they make more money per game since the price of the game is higher. For e.g. Mass Effect (damm good game) costs 1895 on the Xbox and just 999 for the PC. Thats 50% off there !!!!

If piracy becomes much worse on the PC, then game companies may decide to abandon the PC altogether and support consoles like the PS3 where piracy is not currently a problem and they can start minting money.

I am not in anyway justifying this since I prefer to play legit games on a PC since they are cheaper. I may be working, but I cant afford to spend 2500 for an Xbox game if I can get the same game for 999 on the PC. But if PC piracy becomes much more pronounced, I don't believe the day is far off when all major games become console only release. :(
 
BF1983 said:
It not that the Xbox is going to stop piracy. But since game companies dont sell too many legit copies since on the PC its soo easy to pirate a game, they turn to consoles where the sales are almost as high but they make more money per game since the price of the game is higher. For e.g. Mass Effect (damm good game) costs 1895 on the Xbox and just 999 for the PC. Thats 50% off there !!!!

If piracy becomes much worse on the PC, then game companies may decide to abandon the PC altogether and support consoles like the PS3 where piracy is not currently a problem and they can start minting money.

I am not in anyway justifying this since I prefer to play legit games on a PC since they are cheaper. I may be working, but I cant afford to spend 2500 for an Xbox game if I can get the same game for 999 on the PC. But if PC piracy becomes much more pronounced, I don't believe the day is far off when all major games become console only release. :(
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Well x360, Wii games are pirated on a large scale as well. The scale is not yet properly known but a i guess a lot of consoles are soft-moded in the US/UK as well guessing from the NTSC/PAL leaks.

As for the pricing model well publishers have to pay more for releasing their games on the ps3/x360 as part of licensing fees. Besides consoles games are priced $60-50 no matter the quality/grade of the titles while most titles on PC are pretty much cheap and continue to get cheaper. As for you argument about publishers not publishing any more titles for the PC, well let's consider a hypothetical scenario. If the next windows, xbox and ps3 platform are uncrackable, most or rather a lot of gamers would convert back to the PC gaming due to the low cost of the games itself. ;)
 
"uncrackable" ---- it sounds CHALLENGING and Hackers/Crackers community surly luv this word//

I agree with Blade Runner..PC gaming never going to be end while opposite may happen,,may be M$ will fuse the Xbox platform into the PC platform(like the nokia tries to fuse the Ngage platform)..
 
satyanjoy said:
I agree with Blade Runner..PC gaming never going to be end while opposite may happen,,may be M$ will fuse the Xbox platform into the PC platform(like the nokia tries to fuse the Ngage platform)..
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1) Closest that will ever come to is "Games for WIndows LIVE". First time around it was an horrible failure

2) Cross Platform games will never be "bridged", coz :-
Cry Baby 1 : "He pawned me because he uses his mouse and keyboard, and i only get to use my controller!!!1 THat is so UNFAIR"
Cry Baby 2 : "Lets make consoles use the keyboard and the mouse aswell then" Errrr so why am i spending 400 bucks to buy an outdated 'PC'?

Not picking on you SJ, but these discussions were out and about with UT3(? or 4 dunno) was/is/has Keyboard and mouse support for the PS3, and almost everybody cried foul at it (correct me).

Regarding the ethical vs priacy vs the lively hood of the programmers vs [insert option 4 here] :-
You go out to buy a toaster. And you buy it, only to realize that it burns half of your toast. You return it and claim warranty, Right?
You buy a toaster, and it burns hlaf your toast, for which the manufacturer says, we will release a fix for it which is free, but please wait while we try to fix it. You cant claim warranty because the toaster being faulty is your electric power's fault, no matter how many stabalizers you use, no matter how many UPS ur using, Its YOUR FAULT. And you can not claim warranty, unless the toaster has physical damage.

I loved PS2 games, and PS1 games, everything had to be perfect, QA had to be top notch, any screw ups and its game over. Thats part of the reason i used to love consoles. But thats no more the case.
I ordered the PC version of FO3, what a Joy it is to play that game, i do wish that they had the perk for reducing random crashes.

Edit OnTopic(i hope) :-
I notice that its usually after a game goes gold (outsourced / internal publishing) thats when pirated copies emerge.
 
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