PC version of Battlefield 3 leaks onto torrent sites

With just over a week before its official launch in the U.S., DICE’s highly anticipated PC version of Battlefield 3 has reportedly made its way to various torrent sites. Gaming…

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I saw this yesterday. Y'know EA, steamworks games almost never get leaked before launch, maybe you should take some notes from the successful companies if you want Origin to be successful as well.

That aside it isn't worth downloading 10GB to play the single player 8 days before launch. Maybe if it was a month or two before launch I'd be interested, but 8 days? I'll wait.

LOL...this leaking to Torrent sites is becoming a regular event for big release games. You really have to wonder how the hell this happens and could it be a possible attempt by EA to publicize the game. (Which I seriously doubt considering how much they've put into advertising the game and released a demo to boot.)

At any rate, I think it will have very little if any impact. Those that want the game have already pre-ordered, and most players want the multi-player option anyway.

I will NOT be downloading

You mean they released a beta build? I don't ever recall there being a demo, unless I have fallen out of the loop or something.

Splitting hairs over semantics

"Splitting hairs over semantics"

Because "eagle" and "hen" are different words for the same thing, right?

Trying a game before buying and beta testing a game are very different.

If the entire single player of every fps ever made was legal and free for me to play I probably still wouldn't play any of them. A shooter is just a shooter. Wheres diablo 3 single player fully cracked!?

No, but a 11 month old hen and a 12 month hen are pretty much the same.

How's it going to hurt sales when you start playing it you will get sucked in then you will buy the full version.. It wouldn't surprise me if it has a virus in it LOL NOOBS...

it wouldn't surprise me if it was some sort of honeypot.

If i was the CEO of EA, I would secretly leak it my self!

It will be pirated any ways for single player .. and no extra stress on EA .. except for getting more popularity out there!

and trying to earn the "Will it play Battlefield 3" slogan on the NET!

They have the GREAT COD MW3 to complete with!

my two cents.

*puts on troll veteran medals*

lol really? hows a retexture better than a new engine that is tweaked to work well whit hi end CPU's and GPU's?

I wont even play the game untill my new build. I want the best experience possible

The BF3 "beta" was really a demo which contained bugs so they called it a beta. At least that's what it was for the console players. * I'm not aware if PC players actually filed bug reports.

This article is incorrect, there is no playable version of BF3 available, the disk-images of the russian retail version is available but there is no way to install/activate the retail version as no workaround for Origins DRM has been made available.

They should release a partial version of the game for free. Their customer base is going to want to try it then will definitely buy it for the multiplayer. I might download it because I hate waiting even though I prepurchased.

how 64-bit cpu will help in this game? i hear this for the first time.

How does an unreleased game get pirated. Hmmm. Weird. Couldn't be someone from the game industry. I mean that would be preposterous.

64bit windows can address more than 4GB of ram. The game recommends 4GB on top of the VRAM on your GPU. So if you're not running 64bit then you actually won't meet their recommended requirements.