Leak?
I was on a website (I'm not going to say which one) and someone seems to have posted a torrent of the American version of Final Fantasy XII. I don't have a modded PS2 so I can't download it, but they seem pretty insistant that it is, in fact, the real deal.
I'm pissed that Square has had the completed English version sitting there for two smurfing months so I won't care if this is true D:
Actually, I have it preordered already so I do care. Pay for it ya bastards.
I kinda wanna download it but its mean to rip them off like that. Still i cant believe somone would do that! though it was just a matter of time...
Last edited by Yuna_wannabe; 10-02-2006 at 09:57 PM.
*shrug*
Power to piracy. It's not like everyone who plans on buying FFXII has the power to play an iso version or a burnt copy, so it won't be that much of a damper.
were there any feedbacks?
I just checked back. There was one guy who said it was fake because he couldn't get it to work, then he said he fixed it and it was working fine. Then several other people also tried it and said it's real.
i just went to solops2.. apparently they claim it's teh BETA version right now and somehow had leaked.
wish i had a modchipthe power of internet
gonna wait for the final version
Actually, since we're all talking about the leak, I've looked it up on the net and it seems that it comes from our all time favourite Gamespot(tm of course). They don't say how it happened, but one of their leading reviewer, Greg something (the guy who did the video review for Oblivion, Thief III, etc.).
Anyhow, it's not a beta, but a full version sent out to Gamespot for reviewing purposes. How it appeared as a Torrent, nobody knowns or wants anybody to know (most probably somebody just making a copy for themselves and their friends, who in return made a copy for the WWW).
Wikipedia confirms this leak on their FF12 page:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Final_fantasy_12#Leak
On October 1st, 30 days before its official American release, a full English review copy was leaked and uploaded to many P2P networks and Bittorrent trackers.
The US version of the game seems to have leaked, yes, which is too bad, but I guess it happens. I saw a YouTube clip that was uploaded a few days ago, and it had someone playing the English version of the game. He was going through some dungeon, and while the game looked quite good and interesting, I wasn't too excited about the battles since they made me think of the system in Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic, which I thought was quite weak.
People dislike FFIX because they're horrible idiots. - Kawaii Ryűkishi
"One-Winged Angel" is far and away the best final boss song ever
composed. - Kawaii Ryűkishi
Doesn't the whole game look like Episode One?
I'm sure the story will fix the other weaknesses. We all love FF stories.
Yeah, the leaks were real actual English versions of the game. Most of them have been taken off as of now due to the fact that Square Enix is planning on taking legal action once they find the originater of this act. GamesAreFun.com had an article up yesterday about the leak.
As for the game having been sitting around for 2 months, almsot every game is like that. Maybe not quite that long, but I know Oblivion was boxed up and ready to go at least a month before it's release and ship date. It's just how it goes. Many places, FFXII is just sitting in the back of a factory, waiting to be shipping out in 25 days...
Only if I knew where at...
haha nah, I've already pre-ordered and fully paid off for my copy of FFXII the Collector's edition, so I'll just sit back, kick up my feet, and wait patiently. I mean come on, we've waited 5 full years since the release of the last REAL Final Fantasy game with FFX being released in 2001, I think we can hold off another 25 days for this gem of a game. I'd rather play the game I've waited for, for so long, the legit way, and know that it's MY game. I paid for it.
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This is the article referenced in the previous post. It is an interesting read.
I believe in the power of humanity.
I'd say it's a bluff. If companies like SquareEnix actually had the power to remove files from P2P networks, piracy simply wouldn't exist in the mass it can be observed at the moment. The whole point of P2P is that shutting down a single server doesn't do a thing to the whole, leaving the users cloaked and the files still available.Originally Posted by Roogle
Quite a number of games actually appear in P2P before the official release. Most of the, as far as I know, are fakes with pornography and viruses replacing the actual content. Thus despite the fact that I didn't download the game, nor checked the torrent networks for its availability, I'm most certain that it's still out there and that its numbers are multiplying. Such is piracy and there's nothing one can do about it.
Squeenix did get a cease and desist over the homebrewed Chrono Trigger remake project. They've already started taking legal action on the leak, and on the hosts of the file according to 1up.
I just had a look, there are a great many torrent trackers up for FFXII at the moment. If Squeenix are doing anything, it's either not yet in motion, or it's ineffective.
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