Battlefront 3 Leak

I dunno, early 7th gen most games had a fair amount of their content built in, Oblivion was massive even before the expansions. And if you're talking Future Perfect, the PS2 didn't really do DLC, and I don't think any GC games did (Xbox was an exception, mostly because XBL was broadband and every console had an HDD in it).

 

I mean if Free Radical was to have released their version I doubt all the content they were typical of putting in their games would have made it into the initial release. I bet a lot of it was have been slashed and piecemealed. Future Perfect is an example of how much content they put into their games. FP had enough content for 2 full games. I don't see why their take on BF would have been any different.

 

@ProtoFaggot

Thanks for sharing this for all mankind.

May the Force be with you

 

ProtoFaggot?

 

He is referring to the guy who leaked it. The username he used was that.

 

No username has been claimed on Assembler with that name. I'm sure if one pops up now it WONT be the leaker but someone just trying to get the attention. (Which isn't exactly a good thing for a few members here)

I'm impressed reddit (and twitter for that matter) didn't give the guy issues when registering that name.

 

reddit really doesn't care what you call yourself. Not exactly sure what the guidelines are, but I know they're rather lax.

 

They never found a X360 Kit with that on it.

Someone sold couple kit with the build on it, probably why it got leaked.

 

Sorry, you mentioned giving it out to another person. Either way, I didn't find out until after. The whole story is a mess, and it's pointless to try and fix it years later hah. No way it'll get more accurate by revisions to it.

 

True. It's pointless.

Case closed.

 

I just want to make something clear. Im not mad at anyone, let alone Itchy. It's just no surprise with all the backhanded-ness that went on within the 360 scene that it would leak eventually. Itchy and I have been good for years, as good as two people who don't talk can be anyway hah.It's just an interesting case study of why I don't do trades or share things if I don't want things to get out.

 

You've got to stop complaining. You're acting as if you own the game and that it's your property. I understand that you paid a lot of money but unfortunately this stuff happens and you mentioned you acknowledge, it's a risk. This prototype is nobody's but the developer/publisher's property just like every other prototype out there.

Such a shame everyone who had it only cared about showing it off with no intention of releasing it I'm glad it's leaked, it had to be done.

 

I just said I don't care at this point. Im not certain where the hostility is coming from. I've made my point clear, I've told the story of how it happened, and pointed out the dangers of buying data. It's the history of why the game is out the way it is, and that is important, like it or not. I was aware that this was coming for a while, and if not from PF then from someone else. I'm sorry for not wanting to hear from Lucasfilm again and releasing it myself.

 

It's somewhat interesting to me how I have yet to hear a public statement from Lucasfilm, Disney, EA, or Lucas himself regarding the matter.

 

Doesn't always happen instantly, and it all depends on how easy people are to find and if they care at this point.

 

But realistically, given how relatively high-profile the game is, wouldn't action have been taken already? It actually feels like nobody really cares, which is surprising me. Unless this was strictly between LucasArts and Free Radical, in which case one entity has completely changed and one doesn't even exist anymore.

 

Not necessarily. Hitting a button on Youtube to take down a video is easy, to get materials together for actual lawsuits take more time. It isn't unprecedented for things to take years before hitting that point. There are all sorts of delays that can make things take a long time. Again, not saying that it will happen, but it could.

 

I was so gutted and sad when this game got cancelled. I still enjoy the new Battlefront game but its pretty different to the old ones obviously which I just spent so much time playing back in the day

 

I gotta half agree with this. I think everyone one this site can agree deep down, we honestly don't care if its 'preserved' or not.

We know it exists, and we know it's out there. To have the game locked away by someone in the name of preservation and never to hear about it, is kinda misleading. To me, that feels like a self-righteous attitude of collecting unreleased prototypes by claiming to be for the preservation of video games but in actuality, we know what it's for. For a personal collect that the masses will probably not hear about again.

Here is the difference. I honestly don't care if you have it for your own personal collection, and only want it for yourself. Its human nature. There are going to be people who are jealous but who cares. Nothing is wrong with wanting your girlfriend to belong to you. There is also not releasing something out of respect of the person who gave it to you or cracked it, etc. That's where I fall into. I have a lot of games, sources, etc, that people will never get because I enjoy my stuff to mean something to me by being rare and obscured. I'd like to say I'm selfish in that way, and the people who are actively trying to help me will get help back.

The part where I draw the line is when you attempt to stand a moral high ground and shout you are not releasing it because its preservation. Releasing a title's digital content years after its no longer relevant is not going to harm preservation in no way.

 

Not sure why it needed to be brought up again. But you don't seem to understand the fraction of what I do. Don't speak for everyone. Piracy is not the end goal of preservation, it simply is what it is now. Me just blindly releasing stuff does harm things, look at the Virtual Console, and every other digital rerelease. It harms companies, which let me remind you, people who work on games visit here. There is a risk for every single release, whether financially or worse. As Ive said multiple times in the past, the idea of doing releases, community or not, will come to an end for me, sooner rather than later, unless it was a requirement in an amazing deal to be able to preserve a rather large archive at all.

What that does not mean is that public access to titles will come to an end.

There is a huge difference, and I won't pretend to be a perfect representation of perfect morals either, but I, and many other people out here on these forums, care about true, eventually legal, preservation of digital artifacts. I've released things for free, for money, for any number of reasons, and I've also held things equally as private for any number of reasons.

But regardless, I've said the story of Battlefront III, the dishonesty, and the story of how it came to be how it is. The fact is that if you buy something under X terms and they are broken, regardless of what the case may be, it is normal to be a bit sour over it for a time. I've said multiple times that I have long been over it, that I and everyone involved have moved on. Creating a log of these things is important, whether or not you care.

And with that, this thread on Battlefront is closed, because it is yet another game that seems to bring out the worst in people.