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The Sims 3 Racks Up Over 180,000 Downloads Prior To Release

Posted by Soulskill on from the big-spenders dept.

Bloomberg reports that pirated versions of EA's The Sims 3 were downloaded over 180,000 times between May 18 and May 21. The game will not be officially released until June 2nd, and it does not make use of SecuROM for DRM. Quoting: "That outpaces the 400,000 downloads over three weeks for Electronic Arts' Spore, the most-pirated game of 2008. ... Copies of the game available on file-sharing Web sites aren't the full version, Electronic Arts said. 'The pirated version is a buggy, pre-final build of the game,' Holly Rockwood, a company spokeswoman, said in an e-mailed statement. 'It's not the full game. Half the world — an entire city — is missing from the pirated copy.'"

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  1. Re:It just goes to show... by BumbaCLot · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    My main issue was having a machine with 512MB of RAM and a game chewing up 1GB.
    I played Civ2 on a Packard Bell 133Mhz with 16MB of RAM and sure my turns took up to 10 minutes sometimes but the game would never freeze completely due to memory leaks / system requirements.

  2. Re:What? by Icegryphon · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    I could buy some of the anime I watch but then I would half to:
    1. Pay insane import prices. 80 Bucks for 1 disc is way to much(see Kara No Kyoukai).
    2. Have to Crack regional encoding so only playing it on my Computer, Blah
    3. Not have the English sub titles.
    Fansubs FTW. Screw Odex and BayTSP.