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[OraleeWey]

Some stores are selling the game early. Beware the internets for spoilers.

http://forums.cdprojektred.com/threads/35568-Witcher-3-leaked-in-United-Arab-Emirates

 

[piratethingy]

About time to abandon ship, methinks.

 

[Truant]

Why do people even bother in this age of extensive day-1 patches?

 

[GHG]

It's here in the UAE so it'll be the censored version I'd think.

 

[DrKelpo]

thats more streetdate broken than leaked...but yeah, time to look out for spoilers.

 

[bidguy]

Why do people even bother in this age of extensive day-1 patches?

the one for witcher 3 wont be extensive though

 

[newsguy]

Thanks Obama

 

[tcrunch]

http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=1043251

 

[Dictator93]

WARNING!

SNAPERS KILL THROUGH DUMBLEDOORS!

 

[SenatorBot]

UAE doesn't care about release dates and just sell the games when they get stock.

Which is why every game has always been streamed early by the gamers who live there and we get to see them weeks before the actual release dates. This isn't anything new and I keep seeing people freaking out.

 

[Alebrije]

Not surprised, it was just a matter of time.

 

[Harlequin]

UAE doesn't care about release dates and just sell the games when they get stock.

Which is why every game has always been streamed early by the gamers who live there and we get to see them weeks before the actual release dates. This isn't anything new and I keep seeing people freaking out.

You'd think publishers would've realised this by now and wouldn't start stocking retailers in that region until the actual release date... Unless their marketing specialists think that the pre-release streams actually help up the hype?

 

[TimeEffect]

WARNING!

SNAPERS KILL THROUGH DUMBLEDOORS!

You know, Im currently reading Potter, and Im really upset this became a meme

 

[Backfoggen]

Spoilers: There will be witching.

 

[newsguy]

You'd think publishers would've realised this by now and wouldn't start stocking retailers in that region until the actual release date... Unless their marketing specialists think that the pre-release streams actually help up the hype?

I'm guessing disposable income is higher there than the rest if the world. Pubs would rather them stream early than bite the hand that feeds.

 

[Majmun]

Leaked?

 

[Gamezone]

Why do people even bother in this age of extensive day-1 patches?

What do that have to do with it? You don`t need the patch to play the game.

 

[paragonpro]

WARNING!

SNAPERS KILL THROUGH DUMBLEDOORS!

AHHHS NAAAAAAAZ IVE BEEN SPILLED

 

[Garruson]

Apparently it ends with him being burned at the stake for being a witch I heard?

 

[Terbinator]

This is it B O U Y S.

 

[stan423321]

How long do you think will it take until some dev/pub demands pre-release play lockout on consoles?

Say, people without internet and patches have to type in a code before playing, and it's the same for everyone, but not known before premiere.

 

[Gaz_RB]

Didn't we know this? Was watching streams all day yesterday. And we have a spoiler thread.

 

[Admiral Woofington]

We did know it but not everybody frequents every single witcher thread in hopes to have as much of a black-out as possible on any news of the game.

Knowing there's a leak helps. Regardless part of me was hoping that some US stores were selling it early by mistake so I could run up there lol. This weekend I have nothing to do.

 

[Miles Quaritch]

I'll paddle the arse of anyone who spoils this for me.

I ain't even joking, I'll hunt you down and paddle that arse until it bleeds. Think about that before you post spoilers.

 

[OraleeWey]

How long do you think will it take until some dev/pub demands pre-release play lockout on consoles?

Say, people without internet and patches have to type in a code before playing, and it's the same for everyone, but not known before premiere.

I doubt this will ever happen.

 

[OraleeWey]

I'll paddle the arse of anyone who spoils this for me.

I ain't even joking, I'll hunt you down and paddle that arse until it bleeds. Think about that before you post spoilers.

#8 linked me to the spoiler thread

 

[A-V-B]

WARNING!

SNAPERS KILL THROUGH DUMBLEDOORS!

 

[Admiral Woofington]

I'll paddle the arse of anyone who spoils this for me.

I ain't even joking, I'll hunt you down and paddle that arse until it bleeds. Think about that before you post spoilers.

 

[finalflame]

I'll paddle the arse of anyone who spoils this for me.

I ain't even joking, I'll hunt you down and paddle that arse until it bleeds. Think about that before you post spoilers.

Then just do like everyone else who wants to avoid spoilers and don't go into threads about the game before release, then stick strictly to the spoiler-free OT?

Seems simple.

 

[duckroll]

How long do you think will it take until some dev/pub demands pre-release play lockout on consoles?

Say, people without internet and patches have to type in a code before playing, and it's the same for everyone, but not known before premiere.

It'll happen when breaking street date actually has any real practical impact on anything. The reality is that it doesn't. Games which are leaked early or even pirated early don't sell less. People who were looking forward to the games don't look forward to them less. There's some internet outrage from people who are upset that they aren't the first to play the games, some people get spoiled by assholes, impatient people watch a few streams, but at the end of the day there is no real impact. On release day the games still get released, people still buy them, and life goes on.

 

[ShockingAlberto]

Just release it on Steam and other DD services now.

I'm impatient and already preordered.

 

[Haunted]

oh no the story of a witcher game

spoiled

whatever will we do

Street date broken a couple days early in the Emirates, hardly a big deal. Here, I'll tell you a bit about the story. Geralt's gonna slay some drowners, fuck some sorceresses and there's probably going to be one or two dead kings along the way. Heroic sacrifice by one of your companions to defeat the big bad and reveal the consipracy, bam, done.

 

[Corpsepyre]

It's a miracle the game's even coming out in the UAE. Shit gets banned there really quick. You won't find GoW, GTA, Darksiders 1 and so much more there. Spec Ops too.

I once asked a clerk at Dubai Mall if they had God of War 3, knowing that it was banned there. He looked at me in a really weird way as if I had inquired if they stocked porn.

 

[Ushay]

I'll paddle the arse of anyone who spoils this for me.

I ain't even joking, I'll hunt you down and paddle that arse until it bleeds. Think about that before you post spoilers.

Bwahahahahaha!

Thanks Miles, now I look insane at work..

 

[Admiral Woofington]

It'll happen when breaking street date actually has any real practical impact on anything. The reality is that it doesn't. Games which are leaked early or even pirated early don't sell less. People who were looking forward to the games don't look forward to them less. There's some internet outrage from people who are upset that they aren't the first to play the games, some people get spoiled by assholes, impatient people watch a few streams, but at the end of the day there is no real impact. On release day the games still get released, people still buy them, and life goes on.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=IFu4FtQNv9M

 

[Gen X]

I'll paddle the arse of anyone who spoils this for me.

I ain't even joking, I'll hunt you down and paddle that arse until it bleeds. Think about that before you post spoilers.

Jeeralt gets a haircut.

Spoiler

I love being paddled

 

[Liamc723]

oh no the story of a witcher game

spoiled

whatever will we do

Street date broken a couple days early in the Emirates, hardly a big deal. Here, I'll tell you a bit about the story. Geralt's gonna slay some drowners, fuck some sorceresses and there's probably going to be one or two dead kings along the way. Heroic sacrifice by one of your companions to defeat the big bad and reveal the consipracy, bam, done.

Seriously? It's an RPG, people care about the story.

 

[Admiral Woofington]

oh no the story of a witcher game

spoiled

whatever will we do

Street date broken a couple days early in the Emirates, hardly a big deal. Here, I'll tell you a bit about the story. Geralt's gonna slay some drowners, fuck some sorceresses and there's probably going to be one or two dead kings along the way. Heroic sacrifice by one of your companions to defeat the big bad and reveal the consipracy, bam, done.

.

 

[Moral Panic]

It'll happen when breaking street date actually has any real practical impact on anything. The reality is that it doesn't. Games which are leaked early or even pirated early don't sell less. People who were looking forward to the games don't look forward to them less. There's some internet outrage from people who are upset that they aren't the first to play the games, some people get spoiled by assholes, impatient people watch a few streams, but at the end of the day there is no real impact. On release day the games still get released, people still buy them, and life goes on.

But why do they enforce it on PC then?

 

[Tenebrous]

You know, Im currently reading Potter, and Im really upset this became a meme

Just for you.

 

[shintoki]

oh no the story of a witcher game

spoiled

whatever will we do

Street date broken a couple days early in the Emirates, hardly a big deal. Here, I'll tell you a bit about the story. Geralt's gonna slay some drowners, fuck some sorceresses and there's probably going to be one or two dead kings along the way. Heroic sacrifice by one of your companions to defeat the big bad and reveal the consipracy, bam, done.

Haunted, I thought we were friends bro.

 

[jesu]

Is that the first look we've had of the X1 version?

 

[KefkaPalazzo]

I swear, if I get spoiled...I might be be slightly to mildly agitated for a moment.

Thanks Obama

You might have something here.

I can't recall a Witcher sequel releasing when W was president.

 

[Faustek]

huh, I thought this was a torrent and was ready to laugh at all the idiots who downloaded it and ask them how trojan/malware/virus/fuckedintheasstown was.

 

[duckroll]

But why do they enforce it on PC then?

In the case of Witcher? It's probably because CDPR also owns GOG, and they don't want anyone to be playing the PC version before their own customers on GOG can. Again, it's all business. In the case of most other games, it's simply a helpful side effect of using Steam for DRM, since publishers already use Steam for a bunch of other reasons (popular platform, good features, etc).

 

[TheExhaustedWalrus]

Just release it early, CDPR, you know you want to.

 

[Kama_1082]

so many fucking snitches on the CDPR forums. Their lips must be so chapped.

 

[Count of Monte Sawed-Off]

Looking at that box art makes me glad I'm going digital.

 

[erawsd]

But why do they enforce it on PC then?

Because if the initial batch of PC games didnt require that activation the game would be all over every torrent site and newsgroups right now and CDPR wouldn't be able to do anything to stop it.

 

[Kama_1082]

How long do you think will it take until some dev/pub demands pre-release play lockout on consoles?

Say, people without internet and patches have to type in a code before playing, and it's the same for everyone, but not known before premiere.

it would be no different that what MS proposed during the Xbox One reveal. The pitchforks would be out and extremely sharp.