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AO-Rated Manhunt 2 Leaked To Warez Sites
Ars Technica's Opposable Thumbs blog is reporting that an apparently 'AO' rated version of Rockstar's Manhunt 2 has made its way to warez sites across the internet. "There have been a few videos posted on YouTube that seem to come from this version of the game, which the release notes warn may be a beta version, 'so no crying if it ***** up on you.' That inspires confidence. While this scene-release is being talked about in multiple places, fansite Project Manhunt has a warning: '...remember downloading this game is only going to slimming [sic] the already slim chance of Manhunt 3 ever happening,' they tell fans."
Need a "-1 Angry Young Man Syndrome" moderation option.
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from a rigged demo.
It should put to rest all the suspicions about whetehr Take Two was tricking the ESRB, or bribing them etc. in order to get their game out. Unfortunately it's illegal to download, so in order to find out if they are doing that, you must break the law. Why don't I think that'll be a problem for the people in the anti-gaming organisations
How dare this get released into the warez scene where innocent young children can access it.
How dare Take Two make something that could potentially be stolen and released into the warez scene where possibly innocent children may or may not come into contact with it.
Your honor, I call President Bush to the stand...
XenoPhage
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remember downloading this game is only going to slimming [sic] the already slim chance of Manhunt 3 ever happening
They have a counter at the company, for illegal downloads, and when it hits 999 999, they cancel the project.
Warez sites != web
Most of the half way decent releases that are trackers originated from an FTP, a scene FTP.
The phrase "more better" is acceptable English. suck it grammar Nazis
Yes - usually FTP to IRC and BitTorrent/P2P sites, although I think IRC typically gets it first since the top channels have the distribution networks in place through their own dumps - FTP of group to FTP of chan to Voiced servers in the chan itself. BitTorrent sites probably have their own networks, but I'm not as familiar with them.
No no no! You totally don't get it! Carebears are people who don't gank people 40 levels lower than them! For example, if you're high level, yet you're not engaging in pvp in zones populated by people 80 levels lower than you, you're a carebear.
I used to play AO, and the pvp there was pretty weak. You could only pvp in certain zones, and those zones were grouped by levels, so if you were lvl 150, you couldn't pvp in a level 30 zone. The problem comes from the fact that weapons, armor, "spells" and pets were obtainable based on your STATS rather than your level, so if you had a massively high level character, you could obtain a gigantic set of +stat implants, staggered so that you could use them to shoehorn the absolutely highest level of implants onto your character (I knew people who stocked sets of literally HUNDREDS of implants, to increment their twinks up by a point here and a point there until they were wearing a set far far far beyond anything a non-pro would imagine possible). When you've maxed out your implants to a hilarious level, you take your level 50 character, and you summon a level 150 pet, and then you go "pvp" which basically involves summoning your pet, and watching it completely annihilate everything near you. A high level engineer pet could give a character of an equivalent level a solid run for it's money, and they had the pvp restrictions of the character that summoned it, so game over man, game over.
It was fun in a way, I suppose, to watch a normal guild getting assraped by the absurd twinks of an endgame guild. Got old though, even when you were pitching, not catching. There were other tactics you could use; if someone was trying to take down your zone, you could mob it with people and cause a zone crash to stop the assault.
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Leaked? Gotta be Wii.
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