Epic, Legend, or whoever owns them has the right to not want their unfinished work floating around the web.
Planet Unreal and any other web site has the right to try to assist the above in keeping it from spreading.
BUT PUUUUUULLLLLLEASE don't try to give us a lecture on morals.
People want this game more than any other game ever. I bought a Geforce 3 months ago for one reason only, so I'd be ready for Unreal 2 when it came out.
I haven't played the pre alpha nor do I know where to get it. But make no mistake.... if I knew where to download it, I'd be downloading it right now no matter how big the file was or how slow the server was.
To equate that to stealing is insane. I AM GOING TO BUY THE GAME THE DAY IT COMES OUT NO MATTER WHAT. So will everyone else who has downloaded the pre alpha. Epic, Legend, whoever else are going to get their money.
As a matter of fact... if Epic were smart.... they'd go ahead and start selling the game right now. Charge 60 bucks a pop, with free upgrades as the game progresses. Let's face it, everyone does that to some extent now anyway. When's the last time you bought a finished game that didn't have a patch within a month of its release?
If Epic started selling the game now.... they wouldn't have to wait to start making money off it. They wouldn't have to worry about the deadline nearly as much. They wouldn't have to leave out features because they have to get the game out the door and start making some money off it.
I don't even care if there were only one level, or even half a level, I'd buy the game right here and now if I could.
So don't tell all us loyal fans that bought Unreal, Unreal Gold, and Unreal Tournament.... the very people that made it even possible to make an Unreal 2.... that we are morally bankrupt thieves if we download this 'stolen' pre alpha. Anyone who says they wouldn't is either a liar or not a fan. (Go ahead liars, make yourself look like an idiot and start replying how you wouldn't. Everyone who reads your post will be thinking, "What a friggin' lying 'tard.")
So while I understand PU's stance in assisting Epic, save the boyscout speeches for your mom.
Planet Unreal and any other web site has the right to try to assist the above in keeping it from spreading.
BUT PUUUUUULLLLLLEASE don't try to give us a lecture on morals.
People want this game more than any other game ever. I bought a Geforce 3 months ago for one reason only, so I'd be ready for Unreal 2 when it came out.
I haven't played the pre alpha nor do I know where to get it. But make no mistake.... if I knew where to download it, I'd be downloading it right now no matter how big the file was or how slow the server was.
To equate that to stealing is insane. I AM GOING TO BUY THE GAME THE DAY IT COMES OUT NO MATTER WHAT. So will everyone else who has downloaded the pre alpha. Epic, Legend, whoever else are going to get their money.
As a matter of fact... if Epic were smart.... they'd go ahead and start selling the game right now. Charge 60 bucks a pop, with free upgrades as the game progresses. Let's face it, everyone does that to some extent now anyway. When's the last time you bought a finished game that didn't have a patch within a month of its release?
If Epic started selling the game now.... they wouldn't have to wait to start making money off it. They wouldn't have to worry about the deadline nearly as much. They wouldn't have to leave out features because they have to get the game out the door and start making some money off it.
I don't even care if there were only one level, or even half a level, I'd buy the game right here and now if I could.
So don't tell all us loyal fans that bought Unreal, Unreal Gold, and Unreal Tournament.... the very people that made it even possible to make an Unreal 2.... that we are morally bankrupt thieves if we download this 'stolen' pre alpha. Anyone who says they wouldn't is either a liar or not a fan. (Go ahead liars, make yourself look like an idiot and start replying how you wouldn't. Everyone who reads your post will be thinking, "What a friggin' lying 'tard.")
So while I understand PU's stance in assisting Epic, save the boyscout speeches for your mom.