ATTENTION: Dark Souls: Prepare to Die Edition coming to PC in August

Day 1 purchase for me. PC Gamers will be in for a treat. Dark Souls is an incredible game, one that is so fitting for the PC community. I can't wait to play it at 60 FPS and 1080p. Exclusive bosses sold me too. I'm hoping it will allow modding

[QUOTE="Heirren"]

Console gamers have moved on. Nice to see the pc fanboys craving that console style gameplay, though.

skrat_01

If there is any correlation here, it would be the complete opposite. I was simply pointing out the hypocrisy in that pc fanboys bash consoles, when the games that stem from them are the very nature that is Dark Souls. To read thread titles along the lines of "What is the point of console gaming.." or "Reasons why pc gaming nullifies consoles" etc, and then turn around and read this one--well it makes me laugh.

[QUOTE="peterw007"]Five million copies were pirated.

One million were bought legitimately.

That's staggering.

AdrianWerner

If you think all 5,000,000 copies that were "wasn't gunna buy it anyways" you are delusional.

I'll admit, there is a portion of that, but the majority are a result of the supply/demand being thrown out of whack by a $0 product.

Don't believe the pro-pirate BS--it's just an excuse for entitled dbags to get free stuff and feel good about themselves with pseudo-intellectual logic.

If you think all 5,000,000 copies that were "wasn't gunna buy it anyways" you are delusional.

Vraeth

You're delusional if you think anyone can predict how many of them would buy it or not and you would be completely unfit to run any business if you would take such thing into consideration when making a game on a platform. All that matters is if the legal copies sold will give you enough profit. If 1 mln copies sold gives you a great profit you do it, even if 5 billion other people will pirate it.

[QUOTE="Nanomage"][QUOTE="ultraking"]Demons souls was betterultraking

No it is not, Dark Souls is far better in every way

Plus has 10x more content and art variety, better graphics, far better combat, vastly better world design and non linearity etc

Hermits are really lucky to get that game, i will rebuy it on PC too myself, cant have enough of Dark Souls

[QUOTE="skrat_01"][QUOTE="Heirren"]

Console gamers have moved on. Nice to see the pc fanboys craving that console style gameplay, though.

Heirren

If there is any correlation here, it would be the complete opposite. I was simply pointing out the hypocrisy in that pc fanboys bash consoles, when the games that stem from them are the very nature that is Dark Souls. To read thread titles along the lines of "What is the point of console gaming.." or "Reasons why pc gaming nullifies consoles" etc, and then turn around and read this one--well it makes me laugh.

From what I've read in such threads, most of the barbs are directed at the console hardware itself, not the games.

[QUOTE="ultraking"][QUOTE="Nanomage"] Emphasis on "was".loosingENDS

No it is not, Dark Souls is far better in every way

Plus has 10x more content and art variety, better graphics, far better combat, vastly better world design and non linearity etc

In other words,Dark Souls is availible for the Xbox360,so it wins over Demons' Souls by default...

Hurray, it was about time. This is a game that deserves to be on the PC aswell.

[QUOTE="loosingENDS"]

[QUOTE="ultraking"]damn you! Lol. Demons souls IS the better game. Dark souls is for the noobzRocker6

No it is not, Dark Souls is far better in every way

Plus has 10x more content and art variety, better graphics, far better combat, vastly better world design and non linearity etc

In other words,Dark Souls is availible for the Xbox360,so it wins over Demons' Souls by default...

It would be far better even if was not on 360

loosingENDS has been owned. charizard1605

[QUOTE="Rocker6"]

[QUOTE="loosingENDS"]

No it is not, Dark Souls is far better in every way

Plus has 10x more content and art variety, better graphics, far better combat, vastly better world design and non linearity etc

loosingENDS

In other words,Dark Souls is availible for the Xbox360,so it wins over Demons' Souls by default...

It would be far better even if was not on 360

Are german scans ok on this site? I know alot of others sites don't really tolerate english scans but are ok with foreign ones. There's some pictures of the two new bosses for the PC version.

[QUOTE="Midnightshade29"]Looks like one of our gamespot resident lemming fanatic is on that site too...and look at what he says, hilarious: loosingENDS | April 07, 2012 01:30 pm F***!HOW CAN THEY DO THIS!PC DOES NOT DESERVE THIS GAME! THE GAME IS BEST ON 360,PERIOD! I CANNOT STOP CRYING!!!WHAT HAVE THEY DONE!!??!! http://gamingbolt.com/dark-souls-prepare-to-die-edition-coming-to-pc-in-augustwaltefmoney

Check out his latest comment :cool:

lol nice

[QUOTE="Rocker6"]

[QUOTE="loosingENDS"]

No it is not, Dark Souls is far better in every way

Plus has 10x more content and art variety, better graphics, far better combat, vastly better world design and non linearity etc

loosingENDS

In other words,Dark Souls is availible for the Xbox360,so it wins over Demons' Souls by default...

It would be far better even if was not on 360

Of course it would ;)

That's awesome news.

PC wins.

I hope this game has graphical mods, now it should compete with modded Skyrim if it does.:D

[QUOTE="charizard1605"]loosingENDS has been owned. LastRambo341

Its just a bit of fun.

[QUOTE="LastRambo341"][QUOTE="charizard1605"]loosingENDS has been owned. tenaka2

Its just a bit of fun.

[QUOTE="ultraking"][QUOTE="Nanomage"] Emphasis on "was".loosingENDS

No it is not, Dark Souls is far better in every way

Plus has 10x more content and art variety, better graphics, far better combat, vastly better world design and non linearity etc

Hermits are really lucky to get that game, i will rebuy it on PC too myself, cant have enough of Dark Souls

[QUOTE="tenaka2"]

[QUOTE="LastRambo341"] Adding fuel to the fire?LastRambo341

Its just a bit of fun.

[QUOTE="tenaka2"]

[QUOTE="LastRambo341"] Adding fuel to the fire?LastRambo341

Its just a bit of fun.

lol how lame is that.

[QUOTE="AdrianWerner"]So you mean all those MMA fighters aren't using brazilian jujitsu because they're not brazilians themselves? ;)Devil-Itachi

It's been proven that it has not been pirated anywhere near 5 million times and it has sold a lot more than 1 million. Please try again ;)ducati101

Are german scans ok on this site? I know alot of others sites don't really tolerate english scans but are ok with foreign ones. There's some pictures of the two new bosses for the PC version.

GD1551

Huh, proven where? First time I saw people talking about this, I did a quick check and saw that TW2 fired off an HTTPS phone-home, which would make it pretty easily to report how many copies of a game are being played without even bothering to look at torrents.Makari

TW2 did in fact get pirated 5 million times, if you take into account every copy distributed by alternative methods than public P2P trackers.

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But what does "HTTPS phone-home" even mean?

I am curious if people would be willing to pay 60 buxx on a port that's slightly less than a year old. Cuz that might be a bad price line for a game that's already played to death by console fans.

I am curious if people would be willing to pay 60 buxx on a port that's slightly less than a year old. Cuz that might be a bad price line for a game that's already played to death by console fans.

flashn00b

Hell yes, just heared the news from TB.

Cannot wait.

I am curious if people would be willing to pay 60 buxx on a port that's slightly less than a year old. Cuz that might be a bad price line for a game that's already played to death by console fans.

flashn00b

[QUOTE="Makari"]Huh, proven where? First time I saw people talking about this, I did a quick check and saw that TW2 fired off an HTTPS phone-home, which would make it pretty easily to report how many copies of a game are being played without even bothering to look at torrents.peterw007

TW2 did in fact get pirated 5 million times, if you take into account every copy distributed by alternative methods than public P2P trackers.

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But what does "HTTPS phone-home" even mean?

not a fact

i say Dark Souls was pirated 10million times on Xbox 360, doesnt make it true

[QUOTE="peterw007"]

TW2 did in fact get pirated 5 million times, if you take into account every copy distributed by alternative methods than public P2P trackers.

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But what does "HTTPS phone-home" even mean?

HaloinventedFPS

not a fact

i say Dark Souls was pirated 10million times on Xbox 360, doesnt make it true

Do you have any idea what the pirating world is like?

It's absolutely massive...larger than any community you could possibly imagine.

Just imagine all of the private trackers that feature TW2, all of the warez forums that feature TW2, all of the private forums that feature TW2, all of the public IRC distribution networks that feature TW2, all of the usenet caches that feature TW2, all of the DC++ hubs that feature TW2, etc.

According to TorrentFreak:

In the same interview the CEO also said that despite selling over a million DRM-free games, many people still pirated it. According to his own accounting some 4,5 million copies were shared on BitTorrent alone. Although this is a few million more than TorrentFreak's tracking systems report, there have indeed been lots of downloads of the game.

TorrentFreak

It's not a stretch at all to believe that a couple million more copies were shared via alternate distribution methods.

If you don't agree, you obviously have no idea of the scope of piracy.

[QUOTE="HaloinventedFPS"]

[QUOTE="peterw007"]

not a fact

i say Dark Souls was pirated 10million times on Xbox 360, doesnt make it true

peterw007

Do you have any idea what the pirating world is like?

It's absolutely massive...larger than any community you could possibly imagine.

Just imagine all of the private trackers that feature Dark Souls, all of the warez forums that feature Dark Souls, all of the private forums that feature Dark Souls, all of the public IRC distribution networks that feature Dark Souls, all of the usenet caches that feature Dark Souls, all of the DC++ hubs that feature Dark Souls, etc.

According to TorrentFreak:

In the same interview the CEO also said that despite selling over a million DRM-free games, many people still pirated it. According to his own accounting some 4,5 million copies were shared on BitTorrent alone. Although this is a few million more than TorrentFreak's tracking systems report, there have indeed been lots of downloads of the game.

TorrentFreak

It's not a stretch at all to believe that a couple million more copies were share via alternate distribution methods.

If you don't agree, obviously you have no idea of the scope of piracy.

he pulled that estimate out of his ass, deal with it

he wishes 4.5 million gamers even knew what the Witcher was

he pulled that estimate out of his ass, deal with it

he wishes 4.5 million gamers even knew what the Witcher was

HaloinventedFPS

And you don't know anything about piracy.

Deal with it.

[QUOTE="HaloinventedFPS"]

he pulled that estimate out of his ass, deal with it

he wishes 4.5 million gamers even knew what the Witcher was

peterw007

And you don't know anything about piracy.

Deal with it.

Witcher is niche, if you think it was pirated more than Call of duty than you are a fool

[QUOTE="peterw007"]

[QUOTE="HaloinventedFPS"]

he pulled that estimate out of his ass, deal with it

he wishes 4.5 million gamers even knew what the Witcher was

HaloinventedFPS

And you don't know anything about piracy.

Deal with it.

Witcher is niche, if you think it was pirated more than Call of duty than you are a fool

COD was pirated around 5 million times on public torrents alone.

Witcher was pirated around 5 million times in total.

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It wouldn't surprise me if COD was pirated 10 million times or more when considering all of the ways you could pirate a game.

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The Witcher 2 isn't niche at all...it sold 1 million copies, and it's been largely touted as "one of the must-get PC games."

I like how consolites bring up piracy, DAMAGE CONTROL MUCH?

We got one of your last actually core decent games, aND ITS GOING TO BE BETTER.

console soul s

I hope we get the new content as well.

TW2 did in fact get pirated 5 million times, if you take into account every copy distributed by alternative methods than public P2P trackers.

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But what does "HTTPS phone-home" even mean?

peterw007

But it didn't. CDPR's was simply a guestimate, but it wasn't even in the top 5 most PC pirated titles of 2011.

[QUOTE="GD1551"]

Are german scans ok on this site? I know alot of others sites don't really tolerate english scans but are ok with foreign ones. There's some pictures of the two new bosses for the PC version.

Stevo_the_gamer

OK because there's pictures of the bosses circling around.

[QUOTE="peterw007"]

TW2 did in fact get pirated 5 million times, if you take into account every copy distributed by alternative methods than public P2P trackers.

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But what does "HTTPS phone-home" even mean?

ChubbyGuy40

But it didn't. CDPR's was simply a guestimate, but it wasn't even in the top 5 most pirated titles of 2011.

The top 5 most pirated titles statistic only takes onto account public torrents.

Millions of other people use alternative methods than public torrents to download illegally, especially because torrenting publicly is risky and if unprotected, can lead to a lawsuit or a court settlement.

Why the hell do consolities bring up piracy? What does that have to do with anything? It's easily the weakest argument out of all the sh*t I've heard on here and most of the time it has no relevancy with the subject matter. No one gives two sh*ts if bob from some random 3rd world country pirates a game.

Why the hell do consolities bring up piracy? What does that have to do with anything? It's easily the weakest argument out of all the sh*t I've heard on here and most of the time it has no relevancy with the subject matter. No one gives two sh*ts if bob from some random 3rd world country pirates a game.

GD1551

Millions of people pirate games where they are actually sold.

The USA alone has millions of pirates.

Considering that some developers have chosen not to release games on the PC because of piracy, I'd say that piracy is a pretty big deal.