Mass Effect 2 Leaked to Torrent Sites

The Xbox 360 version of Mass Effect 2 has been leaked and is now available for download on various torrent sites – a week before the official release date of January 26th. The cracked version download size is 13GB.

[zack61]

This is not good.

[Silellak]

Eh, post people don't have the modded hardware to play it anyway. Not sure why anyone would risk getting themselves banned just for the sake of a free game, anyway. If you don't want to buy, that's fine - games are overpriced these days - but at least use something like Gamefly.

[JhawkFootball06]

Already downloading!!!

[PrimordialSoupBase]

Try before you buy. Games are too expensive to take a chance on. If I feel it's worthy of my purchase, I do so.

[Christopher]

Very sad news if this is true. Even sadder that some people here seem to promote/participate in piracy

[Graphics]

GONNA DL NOW!!!!!!!!

[Silellak]

Try before you buy? Sure. That's what renting's for, after all.

Stealing it? There's no excuse.

[JsonHenry]

I'd rather pay $50 to play this on the PC rather than for free on my 360.. anyone that played the first game on both platforms can tell you why.

[Raf1k1]

As if, didn't this happen with the first one too?

This will hurt the sales somewhat but hopefully not much.

[Bigpappy]

It is the kids at the game stores who copy the games when sent to the stores early. If they do go DD, they should drop the prices by at least 1/3.

[badz149]

games on 360 are all bound to be pirated and the sad thing is, pirates are the one got to play these games early while paying nothing.

[GUNS N SWORDS]

hate torrenting 360 games, tried it 4 times failed each time. i only tried it cause i had no money at the time.

It's a stupid concept, for those who either got no money, got the time for it, or just don't like supporting buying 360 games. i have a torrent stuck at 99.99% for over a month now. how do you find waiting on downloading 7 gbs on a 60 to 70k torrent speed to finally stop at near end worth it?

i prefer buying my games more.

[Saaking]

That's just sad.

[Christopher]

*facepalm*

Sad that I get more disagrees for saying it's sad that people pirate games.

@below: Piracy isn't just copying, it's an illegal use of someone else's IP without paying for the rights to use it. Would love for the people who pirate games get a bit of their own medicine some point in their life. May not seem like much, until you're the one who's the victim of piracy.

[Rush-Sykes]

Mass Effect 2 vs Piracy

ME2 attacks but misses Piracy counters with a critical hit, ME2 defeated. da da dar da da da dadar! Piracy levels up.

And actually piracy ain't stealing, stealing takes the original. Piracy creates a copy. Its still wrong but its hard to count it as stealing. xD

[MGSR THE HD VERSION]

oh look at that, ps3 gamers do own jacked up 360s. sh!t, they're the ones complaining about failure rates and yet they're the ones supporting getting your 360 at a garage sale and fvcking with it. :)

further more they even support pirated discs and putting all of their high hopes into these backyard experiments. hoping to get it to run as well as the retail version.

[4Sh0w]

I cant think of any 360 exclusive since late 2007 that I hadn't heard about being on torrent. 360 still manages very well in software sales.

[duplissi]

come on!

developers who make good games deserve to make profit.... otherwise there will be no motivation to make decent games.

i torrent stuff ALL THE TIME, but whenever i come across something of quality i buy it, hard work should be rewarded.

[rodeoo]

U must not know were to download from..I average 1.5MBS takes under 2 hours to download....stick to private trackers.
On another not ixtreme lt firmware is out for the 360....Back on live with my hacked console....YEAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

[RadientFlux]

While it's nothing new, it's a shame to see so many so-called gamers pirating ME2.

Thankfully it's looking like ME2 is going to sell as well as the original ME. So the final part will still be made.

[PrimordialSoupBase]

I find it funny that the assumption is if someone downloads this now, they won't be buying a real copy.

[7ero H3LL]

playing pirated games involves messing with your console's bios.
there's a bar code on the "Reading" side of the disc, it's located on the inner circle of it. sometimes i have to clean that area cause it gets smudges. when i don't clean it it either gives me a "play dvd" or "open tray" option.

but once you mess with your bios you're as as good as dead with customer support. and i love my console too much than to do ANYTHING stupid to it.

besides, i'd rather keep my warranty if anything happens to my console. it's better than to have it at the hands of people who would just say i didn't mod my console right, if anything wrong happens.

[TotalPS3Fanboy]

Where's the PC version?

[LONEWOLF231]

I just hope all of you that are DL it actually buy it. Which is what many do. I too used to the same BUT a game as epic as this deserves to be bought.

[GUNS N SWORDS]

@ 1.22

I never knew that? I frankly never got that far as to burning the disc, i was always stuck on finding hosts. it's clear torrenting wasn't made so that you can profit from it, and it makes perfect sense too. it's not the way to go to play games.

[EVILDEAD360]

LOL..only on N4G.com they allow this to be released as news..for EVERY single big 360 game.

If this was the PS3, then it would be nowhere to be found. That's why it was hilarious when the haters cried foul all day long when Microsoft banned a million of em.

At the end of the day music, games, movies leak on torrents. Why keep promoting it?

LOL..I'm playing..it's obvious

[EVILDEAD360]

LMAO @ Noctis trying to tell something we all don't know. Kind of like this article telling us that Mass Effect 2 leaked.

The bias is clear.

Fact..

The Wii HAS been hacked and EVERY big game has leaked onto torrents. Do you see ONE article on it..nah

The best part of the bias was seeing all of the usual suspects trying to spin the bans as something Micrsoft was wrong for doing.

Honestly who cares about the leaks..it won't hurt a game like Mass Effect 2 or even Halo Reach when it inevitably leaks

So go hang out in the open zone if you can't get your point across without going all 12 year old and calling people 'retards' because you can't get your point across..

[SilentNegotiator]

"Try before you buy? Sure. That's what renting's for, after all.
Stealing it? There's no excuse"

When developers don't release demos, I'll sometimes try them before I buy them using otherwise questionable terms. I believe trying something should be essential to consumers making choices.

Would I torrent the 360 version? Heck no, I don't want a useless banned console.

[Sarick]

Piracy and cheating has created copy protection. Sadly the developers are the last to realize most of the crackers and hackers bypass their anti-piracy protections before a product even hits the store shelves. The companies that succeed in protecting content just redirect these types somewhere else or to other means.

I'm not 100% sure if developers would've taken these paths if piracy and cheating never happened. One thing is for sure I hate being restricted because a minority chooses to cheat the system. I don't think it's right that honest gamers should be treated like thieves when the people who successfully bypass the protection are mostly unimpeded.

As is I don't have much interest in piracy myself. What burns me is when the developers copy protect game saves without some system of backup. I can understand why they'd try and stop piracy but the customer shouldn't be treated like a pirates in these cases. If the saves can be protected to the user ID and allowed to be backed up in encrypted format there isn't a need to be lock happy. Anyway, the protection extra measures only add to product frustration these days.

It's like that old saying about guns. If all guns where illegal only the crooks would have them. It's obvious at this point about piracy. The people cheating the system know what they're doing and the people trying to stop it always seem to do the most damage to the legitimate customers.

So to reiterate the original commenter,

"It's never good."

[hay]

Maybe this'll speed up my time for pre-order arrival.

[CaptainMarvelQ8]

I CANT BELIEVE IT !
an xbox 360 game on torrent sites before the games official release date??!!

[TheLog]

If you download them then...sort of
But if you buy them at the corner of the street for $6 then its NOT as you PAID for them, its the sellers that are stealing hahaha.

[taylork37]

Its receiving stolen property, which is illegal. I think you are kidding though. Not sure. Sarcasm doesn't translate to text.

[lateralus1082]

Freaking sweet game

[Montrealien]

this is a great game, must buy.

With that said, we should not promote this by putting it on the front page of N4G. just saying.

@the log

You have the moral integrity of a squid.

[mastiffchild]

@json henry-While I agree Mass Effect was , indeed, superior on the PC I really didn't think the 360 version was as bad as you're amking out, I've even decided to play the second game on the 360 firs to try out the game save feature to carry over my character to ME2. As a result, I've just got charge of The Normandy on my second (3rd in total)playthrough on the 360 to level up, complete my character and, yes, the elevators take up more time and the game doesn't run at as high a framerate or look quite as vivid as on PC but it's not like a Valve PC to 360 port like The Orang Box or the two L4D games which run at a level so far below their PC counterparts that the fact they cost you more is actually insulting to 360 gamers.

If I was going to moan about a dev selling console gamers too far short of PC quality it wouldn't be Bioware who have, at the very least, tried to get them looking pretty much the same on all platforms. Valve are a lot worse(and may only get away with it because they're so anti PS3)but Bioware are better and the way Splash Damage have a proper, quality team for each version of Brink right now seems the very best way to go so noone gets let down in this kind of way. If everything possible i done to try and close the gap between the PC and consoles without dumbing the PC game down too much then we can't all complain and I think Bioware do a pretty good job as Mass effect is certainly still enjoyable on the 360 and not too distant from the PC version as to cause offense-I actually prefer playing it sat on my couch with a controller and it's not possible for me to do that on my rig right now with where it has to live(my family won't let me have a PC by ANYm TVs as I click too hard on the keys when I type fast). But, whatever, I jut don't think the PC version is anywhere near $50 better than the 360 game and feel the gap will have narrowed a little more with ME2.

[vhero]

Wouldn't have happened if it was a ps3 exclusive FACT! As contrary to reports its still not cracked all methods so far are fake.

[The Happy Baby]

This is only good if you have a modded console, which means you'll be banned sometime in the future and you'll have to buy another console--either way someone is going to get paid.

[jjohan35]

Only on 360.

[TheLog]

@1.34 & 1.36
Its more of buying stolen goods than receiving stolen goods. But its better than plain stealing, rite? :)

Haha kidding, just pushing peoples buttons. People who are smart enough to pirate games are smart enough to know right and wrong. Its no use reasoning with them. Its either they grow older and learn, grow richer and pay or dosent give a dam.

Btw pirate games is a crime! But watching movies and music online like at youtube is ok. Its not stealing if its movies and music. XD
Looking at the hits hundred thousands of people do this at youtube, how about that??

[JsonHenry]

The size of the PC version is a little over 14gigs.

[dabri5]

Its actually not the kids at the store who get it, go home and rip it. It's the people at the companies that print the disks. Workers either grab an extra disk or grab the master digital copy and do it that way. Sad but almost every single torrent originates from this. Whats sad is these people are going to kill their jobs because if we go DD pure, they won't have anything to print.

[KingKionic]

Every xbox 360 game is on torrent sites way before release .

This really isn't anything new .

People were playing batman:AA a month before it came out .

[Hellsvacancy]

Hardly news worthy aye

[KingKionic]

Not really...

Im pretty sure people who use torrents will just sign into there account and just check out the new torrents any way .

[sikbeta]

You're right, this really isn't anything new but is BAD for the Devs

[LordMarius]

I have to get myself one of those modded 360s, I'm missing free games people

[Sunny_D]

I know! That's what makes me tempted to get one. :P

[Bolts]

This is the only reason to get a 360 really.

[rpgenius420]

Yea those of you who use torrents are lame and noobs. You weak a$$ people who can't mod your 360 are always hating on the people who have modded their box. Keep whining while I play some more Mass Effect 2 and most likely Bioshock 2 before you. Yea come on tell me how bad stealing is, like you never 5 finger discounted anything. With the new iXtreme LT it won't stop either! Arrrrrrrr matey!

~Peace

[mastiffchild]

Oh, RPGenius-I don't know about you calling people who resist their more base instincts weak. I don't think it's fair at all-and , no, I've never stolen anything in my entire life. Perhaps that's a result of being burgled as a child and then being someone who'd worked as both a recording artist and songwriter who knows the cost of people just taking what they want without asking or paying.

Funnily enough my opinion of those who pirate games because they haven't a demo to try is that it's fair enough but if, like you, people are just dirty thieves then I'm a little harder on them-you're the kind of person who doesn't care about anyone else but if someone stole from you you'd bawl for a week about it. IDK what you do for a living(or even if you do as , if you were on benefits and poor, then maybe I could understand what you do a little more) but I'm assuming you would NOT like to do it for a week for nothing-yet you expect devs to work for free for you?

So, calling us respectable folk out as weak is really quite thick, imo, as you must understand what happens if we all take up your point of view, mustn't you? That's right there would be NO new games for you to play so, really, you should STFU or thank us for supporting your ability to steal rather than trying to belittle us and justify your disgusting pride at being little more than a tech savvy shoplifter. Yeah, wll done mate-ever thought it was you that was the weak one by giving in to your impatience and greed rather than thinking what's actually best for a pasttime I assume you enjoy?

Obviously you have or you wouldn't be so quick to try and big yourself up like this and tell us that we must all have been as bad as you in the past(like two wrongs would make it right anyway, dufus)when you have NO idea what anyone else has done in their lives. Some of us, though I accept I'm probably just as far from perfect as yourself, have what we feel is a moral obligation towards a hobby/passion that has brought us a great deal of enjoyment over the years and to steal from the industry will only hurt our fellow gamers and fave devs in the end.

So, stop labelling those who keep the devs you steal from afloat and realise that when the last round of bans came about I was offered a modded 360 with over 35games for £25 and wasn't tempted. Christ i could sort it out myself if I wanted in a few moments but haven't been tempted. You know why I haven't been tempted? That's right, I'm not as "weak" as you are. Honestly mate, what's the deal slagging off people for doing sod all wrong? BTW I really wasn't going to post anything on this thread as i didn't think it was news-but insulting people for doing the right thing? Amazing.I'm one of the biggest critics of the industry that you'll find around here and, in many, many cases think that gamers are way too much in thrall to what the industry asks and demands of us(like with MW2 and the dedicated servers fiasco, price hikes etc-when others were arguing among themselves I was saying we should stick together and all demand fair treatment from Acti/IW. Sadly, a lot of us were knocking the other set of gamer at the time so it was impossible as those who weren't doing that were actually excuing the behaviour of IW/Activision as "supply and demand"-but even then I didn't advocate piracy and never would as two wrongs don't ever make a right)-there are way too many gamers prepared to bend over and sopin for the industry that basically rips them off at every turn. Sadly, it's people behaving like you that keep giving the industry an excuse.

I know piracy is complex but not the way you behave it isn't. Piracy to try befor buying in the absence of a demo is OK in my eyes, for instance and I'd even be willing to forgive someone who fell on really hard times. The Homebrew scene is fine with me too but when it comes to purely trying to get free gaming it's just wrong. If you like a game rent or buy the game. If you can't physically afford to rent then, by all means, pirate to try before you buy is OK, if you would usually buy your games and currently cannot even afford pre owned ones then I even think that, on the rarest occasions(as I've been THAT poor and still didn't pirate), pirating a game or two(and commiting to yourself to buy them if you get sorted out)is a passable evil. Apart from that, though, and in the way you outlined it's just out of order and to knock people being honest ios a joke fella.Sorry, you just really pi55ed me off being so full of yourlf when , really, you should be ashamed.

[MetalGearRising]

Regardless Mass Effect 2 will still outsell every ps3 game coming out 2010.

[snipermk0]

Awwww.. you seem sad. Here, have a cookie

[maverick1191]

the one bubble you have proves you talk utter bullshi!t why do you hate ps3 so much why do you care?

just play the games you want stop being such a baby

my console is better

no mine is

no mine is

please give it a break you b!tch about every ps3 article and say 360 is the best thing thats ever been created yet your on here 24/7 which shows you dont game alot

you never talk about certain games

do you even play games or are you just here to waste time and whine?

seriously if i was a mod on this site i'd be so tired of you and just ban you this site wont be so b!tchy about which console is better if people like you weren't around

do us a favor and stop dissing then maybe you can get your bubbles back

seriously you are the 1st to post on every ps3 article and then you cant back anything up and post quickly and run off and press refresh until the next ps3 article is up and post about that and run off

[blitz0623]

lol Rising. troll, bot, loser. are you in your computer 24/7 going to n4g.com every 15 minutes after gazing on your crapbox? just another guy bragging about sales cuz that's all you can brag about. and what's worse is, you don't get any form of profit by thinking, "Man, this game has sold 50 million! Wow! Oh wait, I don't even like the game! Whatever, it has strong sales, take that droids!"
This is where you get profit: "That game was good. EPIC. I enjoyed the game, even if it only sold 100k!"

[damnightmare]

lol I don't like MGR's trolling, it's a lot worse then PS3 fanboys trolling but you have to admit

He went from 1 Bubble left here then all of a sudden back to 2, multiple accounts much?

[Chubear]

"Uh?!.. What?!.. no need for blu-ray you say?! Oh. O-K!" hehehehe :D

[Karooo]

it has even less preorders than gow 3, halo odst and mw2 were phenomenal, mass effect 2 will do just like forza 3 or maybe a bit better.

[JasonPC360PS3Wii]

Funny how the only gaming platform to use Blu-ray is the PS3 which is last this gen and you still have to install half the game.

[Trebius]

The only games that required huge installs were some of the 1st generation PS3 games...after people became more used to the architecture that installation issue disappeared...

Believe me though, I was pretty annoyed at games like DMC4 and MGS4's installations...MGS was worth it, DMC wasnt.

[meatnormous]

Jason did you not see where Trebius said it was early ps3 games that require an install. Also why are you listing every game with an optional install. In that case, every 360 game has an optional install cause you can copy it to the hdd to cut down on the noise made by the DVD drive. Oblivion Game of the Year Edition for the 360 REQUIRES A HARD DRIVE FOR INSTALLATION OF ADDED CONTENT.

[Sir Ken_Kutaragi_]

...P.C!!! ;-D

[JasonPC360PS3Wii]

1.3 GB for Infamous.
Fallout 3 5.0 GB
Fight Night Round 4 1350 MB required
God of War 3--------------(required) 4.70 GB

[gtamike123]

PS3 can have custom BIG hard drives so not a problem. (like 500GB)
You waste money on Xbox Live and we use that money to buy a bigger HDD.

[SUPREME RULER]

that's what happen when you make a game on a weak system.

[SUPREME RULER]

you play sale, i play games. mass effect got nothing on god of war

[gtamike123]

The System gets RROD

[LordMarius]

Other: (5 minutes ago)
Not necessarily News for Gamers? News for Thieves, a better post for there.
Reported by: UserThree
Other: (19 minutes ago)
We shouldn't be promoting piracy.
Reported by: gauntletpython
Spam: (24 minutes ago)
Don't advertise internet theft.
Reported by: BIoodmask

lol cry more

[GiantEnemyCrab]

Damn, so you are hear crying about reports? What a hypocrite..

You honestly think this POS is news worthy?

lol troll more

[LordMarius]

so you are here crying about this not being news worthy

lol b*tch more

[sakura2009]

mariujuselijah is right

[meatnormous]

To people with modded 360s it sure is news.

[NotSoSilentBob]

I've said it before and I'll say it again

what 360 game isn't leaked early?

[Darkspade]

Tony Hawk Ride wasn't on a Torrent site until just about 1 week ago

[Sunny_D]

Because it sucks so much, that it wasn't worth torrenting. LOl. Besides, you also need the peripheral to play it correctly.

[Erotic Sheep]

lol good luck downloading that peripheral..

[Darkspade]

@suunyd
That is very true Lmao.. (the sucking part)

[chase167]

I FORGOT IT WAS ON 2 DISC (LOL)

[djtek184]

Thanks 4 the heads up, cant wait to get on torrent.

[-MD-]

Karma buddy.

[djtek184]

Its not karma, its just a way to help the gaming industry to learn from their mistakes. Example, the 360 with its dvd9 media and a PC like hardware can easily hacked.

[Shaka2K6]

.

[BrownPowerzz]

Like someone else said, almost EVERY Xbox 360 game is leaked on torrent sites before release! But don't be a cheapskate and please support Bioware and BUY this epic game on PC or Xbox 360!!!

[maverick1191]

you know that wont happen when you get a choice free game or paying £40 for it

everyone will always choose the free option

no matter how you tempt them know one turns down stuff for free :P

[BrownPowerzz]

Thats true, maverick1191, but it's f-ing sad when you think about how much time, effort and money the developers are using to make their games.

And thanx for the disagree (whoever) for stating the obvious and supporting the gaming industry, but I'll keep buying games for both my Sony and MS console.

[Sarick]

I bought their game and played it. Bought a bunch of expansions too. When I went to backup my game saves I found out all the support I put into the game wasn't mine to keep.

When we buy a games it should be our right to make backups. Bioware and EA have made it clear they will restrict their products. I love their games but for the most part they sure don't make me feel like I'm getting what I paid for. Supporting piracy isn't good either. Two wrongs don't make a right. These download sites exist because people would rather get something free.

The developers don't like being cheated but the customers don't either. It's a sad state when one feels cheated and the other is oblivious to it. The developers feel cheated because of piracy. The customers feel cheated by developers using mischievous features or tactics in their software that penalizes it. It's quite clear that both sides have an agenda and could care less about the other. When money is involved both want the optimal method of getting paid or not paying for content.

The group that seems to suffer the most is the honest customer, the one that makes a legitimate purchase. So before cheering on one side or the other we should account for all parties affected.

Either way, it seems unfair to talk good about developers on one hand while neglecting the bad side some possess. It's also just as bad if pirates are encouraged to cheat the developers.

[mushroomwig]

Well done N4G, approving this article will only encourage people to go and download it.

[chase167]

ITS NEWS

[GiantEnemyCrab]

It's not news.. I mean would you listen to someone who steals his games? If you don't have enough brains in your messed up head to realize how wrong that is then I doubt you have enough cognitive skill to be able to tell what is news and what isn't.

[damnightmare]

It IS news

It's about a game and people approved it

That's all that matters here

[SkyGamer]

I can see n4g getting shutdown because of promoting piracy. It has happened to several sites and this site is no exception.

[chase167]

Its news ok
if you like it or not

[monkey602]

I'd be tempted to try download it if it was the PC version. Just to see if it runs alright on my laptop. Just taking a chance instead. Definitely buying this though.

[M337ING]

Doing so would only accelerate the piracy by other, less honest individuals.

[ReBurn]

Shouldn't be an issue since everyone that would download it had to buy a brand new, unmodded 360 back in November, right guise? I mean, Microsoft forced all of the modders and hackers to buy new systems and artificially inflated their sales totals in the process, so there's no way people would be able to play it even if they downloaded it.

[JhawkFootball06]

Um? No.. All microsoft did was ban them from xbox live and made it so they couldnt install games on the hard drive. They can still play all pirates games. Plus since this game doesnt even have live why would someone need live to play it...

[chase167]

JUST CANT USE XBL ON THAT CONSOLE

[ReBurn]

Sarcasm is definitely lost on this crowd...

I guess gaming is srs biz.

[jharv]

None of this would happen on the PS3, make it happen EA.

[Cyrus365]

All the reason to just make mass effect A PS3 or PS4 exclusive! Just for format security! ;)

But seriously, I'm constantly impressed at the sales of 3rd party games, even though 95% of them are leaked, and there are tons of modded 360 who dl games...i know a few personally, not that I agree with it. Again just surprising, which is why 3rd party developers will develop, until they see a negative impact on sales...like the PSP.

[Richdad]

in size and once a PSP is cracked its a kids play to download and play a PSP game also giving 40$ for a portable game is still in question.

But if you are talking about piracy 360, you just dont know 'D' of difficulty. Downright from burning games to XBL issues, the ban hammer and the time to time updates. It's so much frustating & time taking that at times you would feel that you should have never moded it at first place.

Not to mention it's damn costly to play moded games on 360. Yes!, more than any other console till date. More so if your dont you know how to mod 360 yourself you require to do it 1-2 times a year.

[Cyrus365]

Not really, my friend hasn't had his console banned at all, mind you he doesn't care about multiplayer, nor does he use Xbox Live, and he gets all his games off torrents, I'd say that's pretty cheap, and he manages to download updates for the games. Beats me how he does it...

[Richdad]

Then you make your 360 an arcade box than you are good to go. Anyways firmware upgrade would still be required at times.

[jpod]

Did anyone expect this to NOT get leaked?

[GiantEnemyCrab]

Wii, PC, PS2, PSP, DS all get pirated releases every day and yes high profile titles. Why stupid websites like this and N4G find that whenever it happens to a 360 game it's news worthy is beyond me.

I think some pityful fanboy actually thinks this is a dig at the 360. Or N4G, this POS source website and God Money are really into promoting piracy to the masses as much as possible and want to spread the word.

Either way, this news is not news worthy and pirates are nothing but theives no better than someone who mugs an old lady on the street or kicks your front door in and steals everything you own when you're not home. Some real bottom dwelling scum and there is no excuse to steal.

[Somnipotent]

pirates suck. except for jack sparrow. he's cool, in a flamboyant kinda way.

[GamerPS360]

it's not stealing, it's sharing. EA is no old lady. If anything, they are drug dealers :D
i wonder, why do people consider Robin Hood a HERO?

PS, I don't have modded 360.

[damnightmare]

I understand what you are saying

But you are contradicting yourself, you keep saying this is not news and now you are saying "this news is not news worthy".

Make up your mind lol

[OpenGL]

While I am strongly against piracy on every platform, I find your comparisons to be a bit extreme. This is not equivalent to mugging an old lady or burglarizing a home, but piracy does take away money from hard working developers.

[VINNIEPAZ]

Burning this bad boy right now.

[BrownPowerzz]

but you better not fall asleep tonight, I'll sneak in your house and STEAL your box! ;)

[VINNIEPAZ]

Well my ole lady is gonna be playing so you'll have to pry it out her dead hands first, lol

[darkstar]

If it were not for these articles, normal people would not even know about these torrents coming out. Why do people feel they should be able to dl games for free that cost millions of dollars and countless man hours to produce? Pirates are killing the industry. The whole "Wasnt going to buy it so it's not a lost sale" line is a bunch of bs. It might not be a lost sale, but piracy numbers don't exactly make publishers and developers happy. Our hobby is they're business. If they are not making money, they will eventually stop making games.

[Somnipotent]

but it's to be expected, in fact, it's almost guaranteed now. oh well, expect another million+ mass banning when halo: reach comes out around the holidays.

[cmrbe]

I wonder what size the crack PC version will be.

[Toman85]

"Only on 360" u find pirates most of them on the consoles. Sad but damn true!

[VINNIEPAZ]

Like PS3 owners would never do this if had a chance................ LMMFAO

[TiberusX87]

I have refused to download/pirate games. It just takes the value out of the experience. Oh I didn't pay for it, cbf finishing, next pirated game (/repeat).

No sir, I respect the Industry I have so much passion for, and want to be apart of. I buy all my games.

[Paradicia]

Discussion of piracy in the gamer zone? Most of the idiots saying they will download don't even have an xbox and are under 15 years of age.

- 1000 site credibility

Where the hell are the mods?

[Raoh]

most people have accepted that their consoles will be banned.. i have a few friend who have a modded xbox for offline games and a legit unmodded xbox for online games.

not only are there plenty of torrent links out there but rapidshare and megashares as well..

[JonnyBigBoss]

Eh you gotta support Bioware. I'll be getting this for PC in a week.

[divideby0]

these companies release broken games at launch all the time....and silly gamers just keep buying them and sucking up to them...
look at borderlands, modern warfare of recent....

I have 0 care for these companies if they lose bucks due to piracy, they aint doing gamers justice all the time

[Odin]

You are a fool.

[Tacticity]

Thanks for the news, so long suckers. I just got the torrent file its for pc to. Fuc! that Odin us torrent down-loaders don't give flying fu!k.

[Goldenarmz]

it was funny, i was at work all day today refreshing the Torrent site i go to waiting for this to pop up. Cuz i knew it would be leaked sometime this week and right when i was getting ready to go home.. i hit refresh one more time and BOOM! there it was all in all its heavenly glory. I shall be downloading it jus to get a headstart on my friends... but i will be buying it later.. ..since my 360 is banned : / and i do want my achieveies.

[Odin]

Some people just disgust me. For all of you who think that people would rather take the free option; I'd rather buy the game for 10 times the price then torrent it.

This IS stealing.

[squeeb]

Why is this news? Are people actually surprised it got leaked?

On a somewhat related note, I recall when I purchased my 360 on newegg last fall, on the shopping cart page it showed what other 360 purchasers bought. Guess what was listed first? A 20 stack of DVD-DLs.

I lol'd.

[HXH]

Most of my games are copies << not original.
but this one especially I will buy it original, no matter if it 60$ or 100$ it's worth it.

[Ninji]

"B-b-b-but it supports piracy!" lmao. Don't worry xbots, I'm sure most people will play the superior PC version. You'd have to be a complete retard to play the inferior 360 version anyhow so pirating it is only a good alternative if you're forced to play the inferior version.

[lateralus1082]

Feels good man

[jack who]

13gb on a dvd9?

[damnightmare]

It's 2 discs actually lol

I remember Bioware saying you would have to swap to disc 2 at one point and wouldn't have to again.

[jack who]

oh ok anyways new wave of baned ppl in coming

[awesomeperson]

My bet, is the ban hammer will come in just before either Bad Company 2 or Halo Reach, with just enough time for the banned to buy a new 360...

[Darkspade]

Once again a Game is relase to the Public via internet a week before it's released, Here's the kicker if the game is good it will still sale, for some reason xbox 360 owner support they're console even with the huge piracy going on.. MW2 still sold more and was pirated more then the ps3 version had sales... GEARS 2 huge piracy, huge sales... Halo 3(enough said).. if they make a game that is worth the $60 then people will still buy it. Let ask this question if everyone in the world stop pirating Games would the Price drop any knowing that they'll be making that much more money??? NO!!!!!! These Companies are just has greedy has Pirate's.. Also when you get banned you console is still playable just not on XBL...

[Shadow Man]

sell 2+ million copies. Amazing

[CernaML]

Considering it's a multiplatform title I'm sure it will. :)

[Syaz1]

i think ms strategy is to allow popular games to be leaked, just to supply 'poisoned' games without the pirates' knowledge. this way they can detect modded consoles and ban them straight away. isn't this the same strategy used for fm3 and cod mw2? i bet the cerberus network is rigged with this.

[bigjclassic]

Is the 360 easy to mod like the Wii and PSP??
Because if so, I am soo buying a 360.

[artsaber]

Once again, Microsoft has a reason to throw out another wave of Bans, sale more consoles, etc. Same ol' song and dance. But this is the value of a modded console, even a banned one, pirates always get to play new 360 games weeks to months in advance. Ninja Blade was torrented more than a whole month before release.

[Ashriel]

Support Bioware! If you liked it, BUY IT! D:

[artsaber]

Who the hell else has access to this data besides someone on the inside? How does this infinitely happen to Microsoft. Another reason Bluray woulda been good, it woulda made this sorta thing more expensive, therefore more unattractive.

EDIT: @Below, I think that could happen, but Ninja Blade is a perfect example. Its torrent was online over a month before the game released. This was way to early for a retailer to stock it. But you could be right.

[Ashriel]

I think the publisher hands copies to the retailers before the official release

[jalen247]

That's a shame. People should go out and buy the game and support the developer's hard work.

I am not condoning piracy but if you must do it, do it with the crappy games not the games that it is obvious a lot of money, blood, sweat, and tears went into creating.

[slaymanio]

I downloaded it and its f****** awesome.

[peowpeow]

Why all of a sudden a change of heart people? All comments promoting piracy in previous piracy articles had disagrees everywhere and were -bubbled, and now Mass Effect 2 is leaked.. and this?

"This is not good" - 4 agrees, 16 disagrees

"I have to get myself one of those modded 360s, I'm missing free games people" - 16 agrees, 4 disagrees

?????????? Did I miss something

[ThePostalDudeX]

You missed the fact that people love free games.

[N4Garbage]

New Xbox's are almost impossible to mod.

No firmware yet.

So all those banned...unlesss they purchased an Xbox manufactured pre mid 2009 won't be able to experience this torrent anyway.

Modding a new xbox takes wiring things on the board. Risky business indeed.

[horndog]

since it will go on to sell millions regardless but imagine piracy on the ps3. They already have a hard time selling games and getting exclusives to show up on npd. There would be no reason to develop on that system if it were ever to get cracked. Lol.

[stonecold1]

is not missing out because the ps3 get final fantasy vs 13 and kindgom hearts3 exclusive to the ps3

[CernaML]

I'm sure that if the PS3 was hackable then more consoles would sell and I doubt software sells would be affected too much.

[Scriptor]

burning as we speak!

[Richdad]

No! Bioware have been robbed. Anyways I still think the game will sell well.

[Tapioca Cold]

Should've released this on the PS3 instead. Can't get cracked games. Some never learn.

[DelbertGrady]

All games get leaked to torrents. All Wii games. All 360 games. All PC games. This isn't news, folks.

[DopyG]

OH you forgot to mention PSP...
PSP have a huge freeloader community...
Wonder why u didnt mention that one?

[DelbertGrady]

Because I forgot about it? Or am I a Sony fanboy in disguise?

[DopyG]

I dont know?
Perhaps you know the answer? :D

Come on just kidding (I hate fanboys (both 360 and ps3) so I make "fun" of them)...

[TehCell]

Damm I wish I had an Xbox.
Even though leaked, this game wont suffer much.
I can mostly see the 3rd world countries getting this game free.

Theres a chance that all banned xboxers learned their lesson and never modded their console. Some bought 2 xboxes.

[Amiroo]

downloading ! but when it comes out official i'm going to buy the game in PC & Xbox Original

[ironmonkey]

YAY ITS FREEEE

[OpiZA]

I don't support it, but i'm not surprised. I'm certain every game is leaked early, many way before a week till release.

[spinbot_lv1]

looks like Bioware and Ea will revise forecasts gain and exclusivity deal.

[kraze07]

Since when has it been a cool thing to pirate video games?

[squeeb]

Since the mid 90s? lol

Jokes aside, I buy 90% of what I play these days...you pretty much have to with CD Key checks for online multiplayer and whatnot.

But don't get me wrong, I'm all for supporting the developers.

[ScarT]

I don't get it. People are complaining about the price of games, which is 60$ in USA. But in my country, games are 105$ for THE EXACT SAME GAME AS NEW. So please, we are the ones who should be complaining about that.

[DopyG]

Its true what ScarT said... Why complaining about prices in USA?
Its the american price +20 dollars in europe....

Anyway going to support BioWare for this game...
No matter what all the fanboys (Ps3 AND 360) BioWare should be supported for this gr8 game... SO atleast they have some fundings to ME 3...

[360hasnogamesfor2010]

thank zeus i have ps3.. the pirates suck**** a lot.

[divideby0]

as if these game developers dont rip off gamers with games that dont work on release...you cant deny that fact..
Slant6, GearBox, IW...all frigging crooks taking my bucks and release of broken games....sorry Frig them

[AliC]

Question is will this really hurt sales and if it does would the same happen if this was released on PS3 at the same time?

Personally I find piracy lame, if you don't want to spend your money on a game, don't. Stealing someones work with the excuse that you can't afford it is no better than going to a bank and robbing it.

There is no excuse.

[kewlkat007]

it's 2010.

[bozebo]

xbox version leaked before pc version... :D

[mschmitt7338]

I believe that piracy is one of the worst things you could do. If you think about it the price of games isn't just for the developer themselves. They have to pay the employees that make the games. Therefore, its like stealing from the employee themselves.

[DW]

.. already!! WTH

[complex]

This article was factually wrong, on many points:
1. All Games Get Leaked AT LEAST a week early, they get leaked early depending on how popular they are as they go into the factories sooner if there is more day-one demand.
2. This game is not "cracked" no modification was done to make this game available, they install custom firmware onto a 360 disk drive which they connect to their PC and use programs to rip the image file of the disk.

[Justin_bristoe]

a shame,stupid box zombies

[maxcer]

remember people, pirating video games is bad, but pirating movies and music is ok... wait, what?...

[sleewok]

That's what happens when you develop for the xbox. What did the developers expect? I'm SURE they factored it into the numbers for sales.

Sad regardless though. Middle finger to the leaker.

[TwistedMetal]

I have no idea why not that many people do it. Its mostly the smart and hardcores who hack and get x360 games for free. mainstream gamers dont wich makes up a majority of x360 game sales. mainstream gamers are the ones who buy the halo, cod4, GTa4, sports games and other games that are hyped or marketed tons. mainstream gamers are never likely to purchase hard games,long rpgs, or niche games. Buy your ps3 games pirate you x360 games becuase you can get back at M$ for makeing you pay out the ars for live, overpriced peripherals, and haveing to send your x360 in for repairs every few months. piracy is the way you can fight back. For every game you pirate buy a ps3 game and it will at least allow you to sleep at night knowing that some developer that deserves it, is getting that 60 bucks that you were going to spend.

[Lehman Brothers]

meh.. no one cares if 360 games are on torrent sites... Modern Warfare 2 was 2 weeks before release on torrent sites and it sold 9 Million on the 360 already.

who the fuk plays pirated game if you cnat connect to xbox live? lol...

[speed]

IMO if you're getting every game released there is an over-saturation that can happen. Pretty soon no one game seems to feel special anymore. Since you don't have to work for the money to pay for these games there is nothing that feels deserved or earned. The excitement isn't the same as if you actually planned and anticipated making a purchase for a game that you were looking forward to. In a way you could say that it is harmful to your gaming experience. Just something to think about.

[yog-sothot]

Jeeze... show some respect to the people who worked hard to make this game ! If you can't afford it now, wait for the price to drop. It will happen soon enough.

[gtamike123]

owned

[Scudd]

The PC version is up now from Razor

[silvacrest]

yeah, the PC version is also available now

....downloading as i type.....

[Omega Zues]

None of this comes to as a surprise. This is almost typical fashion coming from any 360 game. First its leaked on torrents about 1 to 2 weeks before release, then few days later a slew of spoilers.

Honestly I dont even know why they bothered with the PC version.

[Drac]

I bet the one's who are downloading this and then won't buy are the same little whiners that complain about lack of good games.

And yes coping is stealing, your still getting the full experience of playing the game aren’t you? While it won’t hurt Bioware as much as it hurts the more Indie software houses, it’s still money they’d use to develop more and better games.

[Scudd]

If i spot a game out early then i will download it if i am dying to play it then buy it when its properly released, just copying my saved games over so i can continue. I agree that piracy it a big problem on the PC and i recommend gamers buy the games they love to help the creators.