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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. andnothingofvaluewasgained by RiotingPacifist · · Score: 0, Troll

    Nice move not using DRM, its a shame its still the most retarded "game" i can think of.

    But hey not everybody can be cool like me and get 9000 head shots on Counterstrike.

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  2. Re:What? by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Troll

    Why wait? What's my incentive here? Oh right - I'd be doing something moraly right. No sorry. Not good enough.

    People will always pick the easiest option. Excersising self control for 2 weeks isn't the easiest thing for most people.

    If they could pay $50 and do a legitimate download I'm sure that at least 10% of the downloaders would have picked a legitimate copy.

    I used the same logic to justify having sex with your wife. What's my incentive not to? It would be wrong? No sorry. Not good enough. Exercising self-control for 2 weeks isn't the easiest thing for me. If I can pay her $50 and do a legitimate download, maybe I'd have done that.