Early release of BTS?!?

[Laurence]

Hi all,

I pre-ordered BTS only 2-3 days ago. Today the games store told me I can come in to collect BTS on Wednesday 18th!!!

The games store shall remain nameless to protect the guilty!

If that holds true - I'll post some info here...

p.s. small hint - it is a well known chain (i.e. not some random store).

 

[Pangur Bán]

According to a post on Apolyton, BTS is downloadable as bittorrent.

 

[Dale]

Just so you know, I'm infecting any BtS torrent I find with viruses.

Wanna run the risk that the one you downloaded didn't just DL from me?

 

[grumbler]

Nice try.

 

[Dale]

What, you think I wouldn't do it?

 

[r_rolo1]

I believe you would, just not seeing how ( unless you putted yourself a infected copy... that would be just mean)

 

[Rob (R8XFT)]

Checking out the UK store websites, they have BTS listed as coming in 20th July instead of the 27th July. I can't see it being released until the official dates Firaxis gave out, but it does seem unusual that they're all quoting 20th July.

 

[Dale]

Isolated VMWare machine routed exclusively as a DMZ. Then supernode myself and re-publish any BtS torrents I see, after adding my bits. If you're careful, it'll re-publish exactly the same so when someone else uploads that little bit of the whole torrent from you, it screws them.

Sneaky, but I hate seeing my 12 months of work on the game end up like this, even before release.

 

[DrewBledsoe]

I just did a reasonably thorough search of torrents (and I'm *cough*ahem..lets say pretty well informed in torrent kingdom), and what I'm guessing someone at apolyton has seen, is spam included in various torrent sites that purports (how u spell that word?) to point to torrent info when it doesn't.

Even a quick google search for "beyond the sword torrent" produces several results, none of them are actual torrents. These sites give a bad name to some of us who like to share stuff legally *cough* *splutter* (mutter- black pots and kettles in no particular order)

If there really is a complete BTS torrent out there, I'd personally be amazed, and would want nothing to do with it, I'll be visiting the store on Friday (some have said this is release day) and demanding they sell me the game

 

[grumbler]

What, you think I wouldn't do it?

Actually, that was kind of directed at both of you (you and the thread starter), i.e. a) I don't believe that BTS really is out and b) I don't see how that would work.

(AFAIK for BT the download is divided up in chunks and those are protected by a checksums. So, as r_rolo1 already said, all you could do would be to set up a fake torrent, but not really infect downloads started by others.)

EDIT: You posted while I was writing this. Interesting. You obviously know more about the matter than me.

EDIT2: Hm .. thinking a little about it, while I'll concede that it might be technically possible to tarnish a torrent download in the way you described, it's probably extremely difficult. Otherwise, there wouldn't be fully working torrents out there all the time. Especially if you factor in that the companies of the pirated games have assets far beyond of that of a single person (like you) at their disposal.
(Also, small nitpick, wouldn't changing bits in the download only screw it up, not infect it with a virus?)

 

[TheLastOne36]

BTS is released the same day in Canada as the USA right?

 

[anandus]

Isolated VMWare machine routed exclusively as a DMZ. Then supernode myself and re-publish any BtS torrents I see, after adding my bits. If you're careful, it'll re-publish exactly the same so when someone else uploads that little bit of the whole torrent from you, it screws them.

The checksum hashes would be different

Sneaky, but I hate seeing my 12 months of work on the game end up like this, even before release.

And don't blame, us, blame Fireaxis for not putting a demo out
I mean, the only people that would download it now would be the people who pre-ordered it and can't wait, I reckon

5 more days, people!

 

[OctopusOverload]

Allrigt, Im going crazier than Perpentach here

Which date is BTS most likely to be released at in Europe-North America?
18th, 20th, 23rd or 27th?

 

[r_rolo1]

Well, the official thing is 23 for North America and 27 for Europe... The other ones are vented by ressellers ( maybe to increase sells ( remember the 10th July of Amazon? )

 

[Joebasalt13]

The release date is the 23rd, for NA. That is when it will be out.

The above person most likely was misinformed, and given the release date of Civ Gold Edition which comes out on the 18th.

 

[GeoModder]

Just so you know, I'm infecting any BtS torrent I find with viruses.

Wanna run the risk that the one you downloaded didn't just DL from me?

So, does this mean whatever mod from you is suspect? I mean, you are threatening a certain kind of people now...

 

[Mesousa]

I just did a reasonably thorough search of torrents (and I'm *cough*ahem..lets say pretty well informed in torrent kingdom), and what I'm guessing someone at apolyton has seen, is spam included in various torrent sites that purports (how u spell that word?) to point to torrent info when it doesn't.

Even a quick google search for "beyond the sword torrent" produces several results, none of them are actual torrents. These sites give a bad name to some of us who like to share stuff legally *cough* *splutter* (mutter- black pots and kettles in no particular order)

If there really is a complete BTS torrent out there, I'd personally be amazed, and would want nothing to do with it, I'll be visiting the store on Friday (some have said this is release day) and demanding they sell me the game

I've seen a BTS torrent too, but even if it was a working copy and not a fake, the uploader's comment said there's no crack yet, so at least it'll be useless to most people for now (not that it should take the usual suspects long to whip up a crack if it is a proper copy). But of course you never know if the advance copy it's based on was actually the latest version, one might just download a bottle full of bugs there.

*crosses fingers that the retail release won't be such a bottle*

 

[OctopusOverload]

Well, a release on the 27th in Europe seems strange. Ive looked around now and found four different northern european pc/console chains stating the 20th as the release date...What to make of that?

 

[Sam_Yeager]

Well, a release on the 27th in Europe seems strange. Ive looked around now and found four different northern european pc/console chains stating the 20th as the release date...What to make of that?

I didn't search that much but both Amazon(UK) and play.com say the 20th July for the release date. It'll be interesting to find out which date turns out to be correct.

 

[Bast]

I'm getting it on Friday 20th.