It seems that Batman can do many a thing: he can survive his back being broken by supervillain Bane, take down psychopaths like Joker and Scarecrow, and strike fear into the hearts of the Gotham underworld. The one thing he couldn’t do however, is protect his latest adventure from console piracy. It turns out that the Xbox 360 version of the highly anticipated release of Batman: Arkham City has been leaked online, just a week before release.
Unfortunately, this is nothing new in terms of game leaks, as big release titles tend to be high priority on torrent sites. Yet for Arkham City, it turns out that it’s a complete XGD3 leak, meaning that most Xbox 360’s would be able to play the game (if procured that is). It’s also worth mentioning that the leaked download is 7.94GB in size, shedding light on what the final install size may be.
These types of illegal downloads are exactly the reason why publishers like Ubisoft have set up programs like Uplay for their upcoming games, looking towards Driver: San Francisco as an example. While Uplay helps mitigate piracy while people are playing online by forcing a subscription fee, it also brings in additional content and DLC for games as well.
Electronic Arts has also started making their presence known to delay piracy problems, with their ever-troublesome Origin program earning some hard looks from gamers for their ability to dive into a user’s hardware or software and take information. Yet even under the covers, the overall goal is to protect the games they create.
Sadly, those measures aren’t stopping the problems before release, and even if they did it would still be on the publisher’s side of things to handle. For now, gamers will have to be content with harder penalties after the fact and trying their hardest to ignore the files floating around. But considering the hype building around Arkham City, we can only hope that fan loyalty will work in Rocksteady‘s favor.
The bright side is that the DLC content like the recently announced Nightwing pack isn’t involved with the tampering, so that everyone will still get to play and download at the same time.
Batman: Arkham City will be released October 18th for the Xbox 360 and PS3, and PC on November 8.
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Source: DSOGaming
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LOL!! And they thought delaying the PC version would stop piracy…they never learn. :S
Yes. Piracy is only a problem on the PC, that’s why we have to deal with draconian DRM schemes. Didn’t you know that?
“Piracy is only a problem on the PC”…did you read the article or even LOOK at the title. If you don’t call that piracy, than idk what is..
Im quite sure Rad’s statement was sarcasm
The answer to that would be a “YES”.
it would take too long to download.
I remember the first game had an anti-piracy glitch where batman couldn’t glide. They should have put that in this one.
I think im still going to just buy it new, get nightwing and support their hardwork at this game…unless it sucks, definitely going to wait a day or two until solid reviews come out
Such is the way of things. At this point, I’d consider piracy to almost be a force of nature. We can build barricades and such to lower the damage, but we can’t stop it.
Typical X-Box wankers!
I’m kinda glad it happened, so they can stop pointing all the fingers at PC pirating. Pirating is bad, but it’s not just on PC, and the PC game market suffers because developers think it only happens on PC.
If you pirate a game you’re a thief – plain & simple.
Try to think about all of the REAL people you are stealing from – most of them are not millionaires…if you can still pirate, then that says a lot about what kind of human you are.
i only pirate 10 year old games and even then they are just pc games. if its new or i can get an old game from amazon w/o paying a fortune in shipping and handling i buy it. but games like darkstone (from 98 or 99) the dev isnt even around anymore yeah ill just get it through bit torrent.
Not to justify piracy, because most people do pirate do so with no intention of buying the thing they’ve stolen. I have purchased every game I have pirated that I liked. The games I didn’t like, I uninstalled and deleted.
If the developers start releasing demo, like BioWare did for DA2 (and I thank them for sparing me the trouble of taking the time to download it), I’ll stop taking the games for a test drive.
Its just too much effort to pirate a game, why would you bother? Just buy the game and trade it when you’re finished and stop being a leech!
I only pirated minecraft and warcraft III, both of which i loved and bought. Piracy cant be stopped unfortunately. Let them have their game, nothing you can do about it, complaining isn’t gonna get gods almighty wrath to beat the crap out of game pirates.
Game corporations will survive without my business for a few weeks. While I fully intend to buy games that I like, I must first try them. If it turns out that the game is good, I will buy it eventually. People need to consider that not everybody who pirates games are greedy dicks who can actually afford them.