Guitar Hero 5 Leaked on to Torrent Sites

Dualshockers Writes:

"It seems like the latest game to fall victim to game piracy is Activision's own pride and joy: Guitar Hero 5. The latest iteration of the king of rhythm games was due to hit shelves on September 1st … but is now hitting hard drives all over the interwebs. It wasn't just the leak of one SKU as both the XBOX 360, and Wii versions are now readily available. I know the cost of games can be steep but piracy is just wrong. Guess someone at Activision has got some explaining to do..."

[Saaking]

Too bad Activision.

[taz8080]

Piracy is becoming pretty rampant nowadays

[BROOKLYN N-M-E]

This, then competing with Beatles Rock band!!

[OhNoez]

every single 360 game leaks, whats the big deal about GH5?

[FamilyGuy]

Games are leaked/up for download everyday, what's so special about this case?

Wii version up for download too

LOL http://www.rlslog.net/categ...

[OhNoez]

LOL 2 http://pre.zerosec.ws/?cat=...

[marcus j]

I understand some are still annoyed about raising the prices of mw2(i live in england so it effects me)but you can't just use it as a excuse to pirate a game.

[Gobot]

I hope you're still saying that when you're buying a Activision game for the price of a Wii.

[rubarb23]

I hope everyone out there pirates the sh1t out of this game. Actually f*ck activision, guitar hero, rock band (not sure if i'm missing one). I'm done with these stupid ass games.

[joemayo76]

the walmart close to where i live (Brampton, Canada) was sellin 360 and ps2 GH5s a couple days ago (disc only) which i find incredibly odd

[xxsnowmanxx]

i know that girl in your avatar... she went to HS with me.

[xabmol]

http://isohunt.com/torrents...

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[StylizedPlayer]

It's not even worth a dvd.Those suckers run $2 each

[BubbleSniper]

xbox gonna cost activision

profits down in

flop out

[StylizedPlayer]

Section 8 has been leaked too

[Quikchicken_Fly]

hey thanks!!!!

[jpod]

I don't know why someone made news story about this. About every 360 game gets leaked. Batman was out 1 week early and GH5 is just a few days early. Then next week, some game will be leaked too.

[B-Real206]

It's true. I see a new one every week.

[xabmol]

This is an Activision game.

*evil grin*

[- Ghost of Sparta -]

Where's the PS3 version? Oh wait, PS3 runs on new tech. My bad.

[NaiNaiNai]

So does PC, and yet PC games are leaked more often.

[Ninver]

lol third party devs will continue to loose money on the last gen piece of trash called 3FixMe. Anyway too bad for moneyvision.

[PLAYINB3YOND]

awww Activision that IS a real shame. Guess finally someone has raped you of your income, doesn't feel nice does it ;)

[sak500]

If the internet had been there and as mature during the ps2/ps1 era imagine the only news would have been for the games getting on the torrents sites. The reason of ps2 and ps1 success was not so much ab being great consoles but the most pirated consoles of the century. With the so called 120+ million user base you'd think games would have maximum sales of 5-8 million units? Also out of 120 half would have bought twice like me whne their ps2 died.

Anyway back on topic, bad news for devs, good news for console manufacturers as it would likely encourge people in 3rd world countries to enjoy new gen gaming.

[Quikchicken_Fly]

PIRACY ROCKS!!!!!!!!!!!

[B-Real206]

Wait for modern warfare II. All x-box 360 games and wii games get released on torrents and rapidshare,depositfiles,ect... .. the list goes on and on.

[Baka-akaB]

What can i say , it happens to every game , and activision actually deserves it .

There are planning to increase prices anyway , might as well give them the excuse of piracy!!!

[DR-IVO]

one game that im tired of that deserves to be leaked is Guitar Hero. It turned into a plug and chug mode by the developers. find a group of songs, load it up into the program, tweak the graphics a little, add one or two new features and call it a brand new game. its basicly using the same engine over and over again just for easy money. I wouldnt be surprised if guitar hero 6, 7, 8, 9, 10 is already finished.

[PS360PCROCKS]

Aww poor Activision...darn that's just too bad for them...

[hates video games]

It sucks.

[hates video games]

Its easy to pirate.

[Elven6]

Blu Ray, HD DVD, etc were hacked just as fast as DVD was when it came out, your point?

[asyouburn]

even if you could pirate, say, MGS4, good luck finding a disc to put those 40 gigs on and even if you did, the disc would be 20 or 25 bucks.

[moja]

http://www.newegg.com/Produ...

$3/disc, oh noes!

[resistance100]

The link you provided is for Blu-ray disks for 14.99, not the 3 you quoted

[hates video games]

I hope there money drys up and they fold under. Thats what I hope for anyways.

[taliesin]

oh dear how sad poor activision....sheds a few crocodile tears

[nightelfmohawk]

it's Activision.

[Tr10wn]

Even with piracy Activision games sold more on the 360 than the PS3 and if you dont know every company suffer from this piracy every day Batman:AA out 21 of august section 8 out 27 of august this is nothing new.

[darkstar]

I can see one or two people,but it seems like a majority of the site feels that they are entitled to free video games for some reason. Wtf. These are the same people that complain that the prices are too high, when they are part of the reason in the first place. If the game is so lame then why pirate? Just looking for way a to justify stealing imo. And if you cant afford a game one week, you ever think of waiting til you can like a normal person? Oh well, I'm more than likely going to get disagrees up the ass, but I'm tired of every one trying to justify piracy. It just hurts the hobby that we all love.

[BROOKLYN N-M-E]

Piracy is a terrible thing, and in the long run will only hurt the industry we all love!

[Senden]

Love all the moralistic views on piracy.. it doesn't make a damn difference how much you pirate games, they've always cost around the same price and imo, out of every game that gets released. Saying it's stealing while in a sense is true, you can't really compare it to going into someone's house and robbing them of their posessions and if anything, the only person you're robbing would be activision and imo, karma is a b1tch and that dirty prick gets what he deserves.

GH is one of the series that imho deserves to be pirated.. they probably have like a development team of like 5-10 people who work two hours a day to shovel the same trashy game out yearly at full price.

Good games are pieces of art and GH is a joke of a game...I wouldn't even use the bandwidth to pirate this crap.

[moja]

...good call. I've been humbled.

My point is, I believe even bluray is well within the fiscal limits of piracy. Perhaps it is not enough though. Time will tell.

[BBCnewsrocks]

blu-ray has definitely been pirated, but It's just not convenient.

$15 disk + ~40gb d/l (download caps. anywaone?) + time to download = too much hassle. For $5 more, I could probably get a genuine copy of the movie somewhere on-line.

Got to give props to Sony for keeping the PS3 unhackable this long though.