technochicken said:
Guest said:
There was a guy who worked for fox news who was fired for reviewing a leaked copy of xmen origins wolverine a while back..
If you had read the article, you would have realized that this is not a review of the game; it just provides a ballpark estimate of how well it will perform on a variety of computers. None of the content or storyline other than a few screenshots with no context are released.
Guest said:
To Techspot, this is a very obvious and cheap grab for traffic. There is absolutely no useful purpose in providing "performance data" from a leaked incomplete beta build of a game. It may or may not be reflective of the final product, and heck, even your own article says that... so what the hell was the point.. beyond getting traffic of course. They calculated that the risk of being sued was minimal, that at worst Crytek would issue a takedown order, but by that time they'd have got the bulk of the traffic to the site. Sad shoddy internet behavior at its best, shame on you techspot.
It may be an incomplete build of the game, but that does not mean the article is useless. Just because YOU did not find anything useful in it does not mean that everyone else feels the same way. And whether or not it is useful, it is certainly interesting, and isn't the point of all the articles on Techspot and other tech websites to inform us about interesting/useful things in the tech industry?
To all the people who are bad-mouthing this article, putting all moral arguments besides (because those are completely personal), how is this article hurting anyone? The game would be there to download regardless of this article, and if anything, I think this article would discourage people from downloading it, because the reason most people would is probably to find out what the graphics look like and how well it performs.
Nobody said this article was hurting anyone. Why don't you stop making up comments to base your counter-arguments on, and instead focus on what I am about to tell you.
Here's the premise of why the article is wrong: TechSpot, a respected technology website, publicly admitted (to thousands of international readers) downloading a pirated, unfinished copy of an unreleased game, and making a performance review of clearly buggy, incomplete code. Consequently, whether intentional or not, making profit off page views from the (clearly desperate) article.
Now, I don't know in what world do you guys are living, but how the **** does that not sound wrong to you? No, really, how? Because, where I live, that's not only unprofessional, but illegal.
If you really pay attention, all of the comments that feel somewhat insulted by this article from Techspot, are actually disappointed, and feel that the website has lost credibility; not that this article will somehow make Crytek lose sales or that it is promoting piracy. In other words, we, the regulars, are worried that Techspot journalistic quality has dropped down so much, that they had to download a pirated copy of an unfinished game, to make a performance review (especially when the game is gonna be released in just a few weeks).
Like I said on my last comment, think about it this way: In law, you can NOT use illegally obtained evidence to prove your case, even if the evidence is conclusive; a judge would simply dismiss the evidence and move along. You, and all the others, including Julio and the staff, should consider us that judge.
