Romanian site SoftSailor is among those reporting the supposed leak:
For the moment we can’t tell for sure if the game is real as the packed/unpacked leaks are sized somewhere near 5GB. The small size of the game makes us think that this is not the actual game, but maybe it’s an unfinished version of The Sims 3 life simulation game...[updated] P.S. From what I’ve read, the game is real and many are playing it right now.
Well-known torrent site The Pirate Bay, whose operators are appealing their recent conviction by a Swedish court on piracy charges, currently has a 4.94GB file named The.Sims.3-Reloaded posted.
GP: Pending confirmation from more reliable sources, we'll call this one a rumor for now...
Based on comments to the article it looks like it has been leaked:
I have to wonder if EA will try to use this to justify stonger DRM.
It's leaked. Pirate Bay is not the right place to go for confirmed "releases" though. There are other sites that only exist to post each and every pirate release imaginable - and Sims 3 has not been nuked so it's a working release.
Guess we'll see what EA does, but as kryo pointed out in one of the other threads their motivation was probably mostly financially driven anyway since DRM costs per-disk.
A pirate release before the official release means somebody just screwed up
Not a game for me, since i dont feel like getting 10+ expansions
Holy...
It basically goes to show what anyone with any common sense can easily figure out:
Pirates pirate because they like it and want to, not because companies use some DRM. The whole "this DRM sucks so I'm going to pirate" is a convenient excuse to hide behind that only holds up as long as the first half is true
This is why, and for no other reason.
Any real fan will buy the game, or will buy it after testing it to make sure it's not tripe.
Also, if my memory serves(which it usually doesn't) Spore was released(pirated) the day before Public release, with all of it's archaic DRM removed, so if they ramp up the DRM for this, they're just making more sound business decisions.
I agree with you. However, I have also not purchased a game due to DRM. Several times I was in a situation where I purchased a legal copy of a game and was unable to play it due to DRM issues (wasn't recognizing the DVD as the original, etc). If I have to go to the pirates to download a crack in order to play a game I legitimately purchased... well, that company isn't going to get my money again. Something is really screwed up that the pirates thieving from the company were the only ones providing me customer service...
So yea, I bought the games I played but I sorta pirated them too, I guess?
well hopefully this wont disuade ea from publishing it with no drm other then diskcheck as it was planning, I suppose its part of a test by ea, everyone knew it was going to be pirated but for such a big title as that, the real rest is to see how sales turn out even with it being rather easy to pirate
I've been waiting a fucking year for this game. I'm buying it no matter what. But boy will I be PISSSED if I can't play it.
EA and Microsoft are 2 companies I will never buy nething from... I've pirated every mildly interesting looking game they've ever made only because
1. They whore your money away with their rediculous expansion
2. Their customer service is awful
3. They are supporters of rediculously invasive DRM and are appossed to internet privacy and protection from traffic shaping
4. everything they release is mediocre half finished and never updated
5. Everything they've ever released is way over hyped Example: Gears of war, spore, halo 3 ..... All are in some way involved with microsoft
Actually I was thinking about pirating this game then I saw that they dont have invasive DRM have good custumer support and update their games I didn't know what to think I'm so used to peice of shit gaming companies anymore I didn't think creators even cared about customer satisfaction nemore
Anyways after I read up on you guys a little bit I went out and payed the full 45 Dollars for this game and so far I'm very happy I did... Keep up the good work I'm a big fan I also bought Sins of a Solar empire and plan on buying the expansions for that and this game.
Pirates never cease to amaze me......
This sounds like it has more to do with an internal problem for EA than its fight against piracy in general. Besides, they already announced not using their typical tactics Sims 3.
this is a games for windows game.
Serves them right for delaying the game 4 months just to advertise!
It just proves that it is already gold, and they are just working the media.. and err.. undisclosed sources inform me, via carrier pigeon that this model is fully functional, with over 9000 new features..
Played it for 8 hours straight yesterday, pretty addictive. Similar to Sims 1 but definitely a bit better (never played the second game). Got to rank 9/10 in the crime jobline. You can choose various things to do while working which give bonuses, ie: "look for extra work" lets you make more money by doing a sidejob while your at work, or "conspire with accomplices" boosts your relationships with coworkers, which goes toward your promotion meter. I went in expecting to play for 20 minutes and after 8 hours I think it might happen again today
I wonder why you bother pirating them in that case. You enjoy mediocre half finished and never updated games?
Well with an EA product, bugs are a sign that the game is ready to ship.
Sorry, couldn't resist.
Considering that the main audience for the Sims games (adult women) is pretty unlikely to pirate games, I don't expect this will have much impact on anything, aside from giving any at EA who opposed dropping SecuROM some "told you so" ammo.
I'm not a big fan of the sims ... I might try it when it
is released. Most likely I'll give it to my niece.
I'm looking forward to SC2 ...
In response to kryo.. I am seeing torrents with 12000+ leeches, I won't mention where but.. yeah, its getting out there.
That was rude.
it's times like this when i wish game develpoers took the movie/music industries approach to pre release piracy.
I mean it can't be that hard to identify where in the chain the leak occured, and take that company to court.
Pirates will steal just about anything. That doesn't mean it'll actually impact the game's sales.
lol I resent that remark!
I never understood the whole "It's crap, I refuse to pay for it! So I'll pirate it instead!" argument.
If a game sucks, then you shouldn't want to play it period. If you play it and get any enjoyment out of it, you kind of owe it to the developer/publisher who created it.
It's a poor attempt to justify their sense of entitlement.
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