Sony condemns Gangs of London Leak |
Gangs of London is
one of the most anticipated titles of the summer.Using the same free-roaming
type gameplay as Grand Theft Auto, Gangs of London brings you to the underworld
of London, and be at the forefront of the gang wars.
Recently, this game was leaked onto the web in the form of torrents, and
eventually will find themselves on upload sites and FTP servers. Sony couldn't
ignore this leak and had to take action and give warning to those who have seen
this game and may have been tempted to download it (or to those that already
did..naughty boys/girls - that's illegal). Sony confirms the leak and state
that the game leak was of an incomplete version (preview version) contains
various bugs and has not gone through many of the finishing processes.
Remember; please do not distribute links to the leaked version of this game in
our comments section, those that do will be immediately banned without
hesitation. We do not condone or promote piracy on this site, so we would
appreciate to see that same attitude from our members/viewers.
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Comments [refresh]
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Ain't it amazing...Sony can't do anything to stop it spreading - why don't they focus on delivering the goods instead of crying about leaks!
Busy downloading it now already (better be a good beta for the 914MB!).
"We do not condone or promote piracy on this site"
First google ad on page:
"Don't Download PSP Games until After you read this shocking review"
Ad follows on to:
"I was frustrated at the expensive prices of new PSP games so I searched on the internet to see if there was a way to download the same games you could find in the shops for a fraction of the price."
Lol
"File sharing is a crime, and Im not going to get raped in the butt, so that you can listen to Usher."
old news....
Any1 find it funny how the makers are condemning criminal acts, yet are making a game about them? Irony at its finest.
You've got nothing to worry about here, sony.
i do now. serves them right for degrading the morals of our society for hard cash .
I think all games should be downloadable via Sony's servers with a price as an ISO which is signed by Sony like the demos..And it should be locked for your MAC address so you can't share it with the rest of the world..I mean like the PSX emulator that Sony will relese in the future,they say that they deliver the games via internet..
And the main reason I want that is that I can't find all the games,when I go to an official Sony shop,there isn't too much games,there are like 4 - 5..
I think it would be better so everyone in the world would have a chance to enjoy all the titles..
Its allright... GTA is much better (personal appriciation) but this game has different replay abilities such as the pub (pool, darts etc..) or the "kill the zombies" or the tourist mode which is pretty cool.
For example, you go next to a pedestrian and ask him for lets say "Big Ben". They go like "eee... I think its that way..." and point out a direction. You then go there and hope that he pointed the right direction so that you can photograph the thing. Theres also hidden guy holding a flag option (hidden packages style).
Anyways,
sorry Sony, but I'll always be a step ahead of you
peace
haha im dowloading it ***** u sony dis is for the devhook
This game is pretty cool, I've completed it 100% :)
lol at number 3 and number 7
'One of the most anticipated titles of the summer."
Not by me, or anyone else i know.
Dont pirate this game, its not worth the wasted bandwith.
I know some people are dissing this game... I don't want to take any sides... but here this:
Compared to most *****ty games that came out for the PSP, this one has a bit of potential. The gameplay is neat, the replay abilities are great, the storyline is well tought off and the parental level is way up!
Try it out seriously, its a 1GB game, so you know the content is there. And by the way, the graphical novel style is very nice... adds addiction to the game.
Anyways, try it before dissing it.
peace
By acknowledging it, they probably got a hundreds of warez kiddies to search the torrents for the ISO.
my friend got the game final fantasy crisis core through a leak and dat *****s mad crazy with the grapics and weapons and awsome batlle system!!!
If they would add battle animations when conquering territorys and place more emphasis on some of the cards and effects, that portion of the game alone would sell this game! Get the card game to feel a little like Advance Wars meets Yugioh Series on the Gba/DS and the whole product graduates to an entirely new eschelon.
The main game itself is OK. But, it DOES feel a bit derivative of gta. The game needs to feel more 'free' in mission modes. You should be able to do whatever u wish, even on a mission. The missions are too linear 'in-game'.
Overall, I think this is a GREAT game that could use more push and intensity in it's various modes of gameplay because GTA already exists and has set the precedent for this style of game.
The final product should be tweaked for even more immersion and polish, even in the mini-games. That type of effort will push the game and the psp in a direction that is sorely lacking on the psp now. This game has potential, but at it's current state, it will just get lost in the sauce of other mediocre titles and ports that have promise, but lack polish.
I'm getting really tired of the Sony ass kissers and people who defend multiple billion dollar corporations because they somehow think it will affect them in some way. Homebrewers and pirates make up a tiny percentage of PSP users, as long as the general game buying population keeps buying games, they'll keep getting firmware updates preventing them from downgrading or exploiting their firmware for the purposes of pirating. Not too many people will risk a $200 device for the purposes of being able to run "Mario don't drop the PSP". People who pirate are already figured out in their tax deductions, and if you don't think so I suggest going to community college for economics 101. I don't mind a policy which prevents people from sharing pirated works, but to release news articles saying, "No bad boy", is just plain retarded.
All this being said, I downloaded the Gangs of London iso from torrents :)
Oh my! What hypocrites! XD XD >_
The directory is tagged with "BETA", so everybody should know, that it's not the final version ;D
i totally agree with the comments saying this article does more harm than good.
but i agree even more that this does little harm at all. just like every system. the pirating community is MUCH MUCH smaller than the people who actually buy games. only exception to this might be the dreamcast or xbox1. even then, it might be up to 10% of users pirate.
as for torrents. old, slow, lame.
pirates should only use usenet and irc.
I'll stop downloading ISO's when Sony stops being a ***** and limiting the homebrew.
I just D/Led this to get back at Sony.
And i bet they will go bankrupt because YOU downloaded it to get back at them, really.
or is "condem" spelled wrong? Shouldn't it be condemn?
yep. condemn(ed).
No, of course they won't. :)
I was parodying the typical excuse that most people seem to have.
But, Sony SHOULD improve its support of homebrew -- or lack thereof.
who cares if sony is whining about this. everytime something gets leaked people whine about it then move on thats what sony needs to do
Hehe! i didnt know this was leaked till now thanks QJ
Joke i wouldnt do that really! unless it was vice city stories of course
Why does sony care if the game is out? The game sucks anyways. This game is a bunch of adverticing and nothing to back it up.
its alrite
If it wasnt for piracy pspupdates wouldnt even be on the map! this site used to link to loads of illegal stuff its what made it famous it gets famous then go's all anti piracy gimme a break!!
nocomment
This is old news and is probably stolen from maxconsole (your
a day to late).
pspupdates doesn't support piracy but they just told you where to find the game.
" this game was leaked onto the web in the form of torrents"
any idiot can google that.
LMAO!!!
F(_)CK SONY!!!
sony saying this is a bug filled version, that's bull I WISH that the game had bugs but it hasn't got any visible ones, the gameplay is rubbish, the game gets boring after ten minutes (and yes i still went through the pain of finishing it) and it's unpredictable. i really hoped for a decent psp game here but as usual, i was left with a crap game. i'm going back to goku makaimura which may not be very original but at least it's a challenge and brings back incredible memories...
Anyone want to post a link to the iso?
WTF are you talking ????
I can´t believe it .....
If this game is great and one can afford, he should buy it. The devs did their jobs, you can´t blame them for the ***** sony is doing....
We should say thank you to those investing so much work in games like GOL --- thank you and do not be frightened, you won´t suffer from this leak.
You people are pathetic. It may not seem like much, but this is exactly why the game industry and entertainment industry is screwed. It's people like you who don't want to spend money on a quality game. You people make me sick.
The money that Sony makes off these games go toward lowering the costs of UMD's and making more games for the PSP and PS3.
Why don't anyone of you open your eyes and realize what your doing. They may be a multi-billion dollar corporation, but you are single-handedly screwing them over, and people who so diligently waited. I'm sick of all you.
Also, you fail to realize that SONY MIGHT STOP TRYING TO KILL HOMEBREW IF YOU STOP(PED) DOWNLOADING LEAKED GAMES AND ISO'S!!! Its exactly why Sony is killing homebrew, and I agree with them. Open your eyes you tools. Shame on you.
see what happend when you late making a game. that happend when the developers focus more on the publicity that the game come other ppl and start to spreading the beta or whatever (FYI i dont like isos i preffer pay 40 or 50 bucks for a game). that happend also whe you guve publicity and BAMM!!! DELAYED TO THER FEW MONTHS that make us MAD VERY VERY MAD.
srry for my english.....:)
Dear Logic (#40),
Need a kleenex to dry your eyes? How about a pacifier to soothe your rattled nerves? Maybe a big hug from your mommy?
Think about what you type bvefore you spew it out of your mouth. Everyone holds the whole :***** sony and their anti piracy *****" up real high when their justifying downloading the games. but seriously thats not why your doing it, your doing it for the same reason im doing it, i dont have any *****ing money. and the little money i do have certinally aint going to a corperation that got my money for a device. and then told me i wasent free to run homebrew on it. and a company that attempts to force updates for its console that only limit the users experiance. and if your too think to understand that. well then your not using any logic, dumbass.
I hope the final version is much better..Sometimes the AI gang members don't attack, that's quite frustrating.
I still thin kGTA is better though and VCS is gonna kick some ass!
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I downloaded the beta a few days ago but haven't had time to play it but word from my friends is that the game sucks. Controls, gameplay, graphics, sounds - everything. Hopefully Sony is serious that the final version will be top notch. I need something to keep me busy til Vice City stories comes.
Anyway, if you wanna download the game head over to torrentspy and do a little search. Not hard at all.
#43; Why do you bother to post when you have no clue what you are talking about? Use Logic, not retardedness.
They don't limit the user experience dumbass. What they do is to keep this from happening. They want to make sure a new user and existing user like me, who loves playing games, have a good experience. Homebrew is homemade applcations, which is essentially what Sony is doing with firmware updates dumbass. Don't spew false, pathetic words out from mouth. The idea is to get people to buy games to enjoy them, so Sony can drop prices on games that people want to buy.
I'm not downloading the game you idiot, so don't say "your doing it for the same reason im doing it, i dont have any *****ing money." Cause you have no clue. I am going to purchase the game cause I will support Sony for the continuation of making games, and devices like this. So shut the **** up.
The reason Sony is not allowing homebrew is because it's people like you, who download the games because they don't want to spend money to support the making of great games and devices. If you want Sony to cut back on killing homebrew, don't download games! Sony will see that. Obviously, you don't, because Sony is plenty more intelligent than you are. They want people to buy games to make things more affordable for you people later. Homebrew is doing nothing but causing problems for Sony, and I see where Sony has problems with it, because I am using LOGIC. USE IT!
#42; I wouldn't cry about it, cause I'm not in my post. It seems from my initial post, you are crying because I told the truth. Got anything to back your statement up? No, then shut up, and quit crying. I've got a few points more than you can prove otherwise.
Don't hate on me for speaking the truth. And I suggest pspupdates get rid of the links to the downloadable games section, cause that could cause problems later on. Law and econmics classes prove and help a lot more than anything you've done.
how would i hurt the game market downloading this game if i have no intention of buying it anyway - loss to sonyt = 0$.
hah. sony need to do some serious work to this game - "the leak and state that the game leak was of an incomplete version" I should *****ing hope so. The aiming system needs improved, the vehicle control system and car handling needs to be improved, they need to add voice actors, they need to add more depth to every gangs story. And most of all thy need to add missions with some variation, rather then generic "sneak into the base" and get briefcase missions or drive to the nightclub. wait. omfg its the east london boys, drive fast and get rid of them omgzz.
[quote Logic] "Homebrew is homemade applcations, which is essentially what Sony is doing with firmware updates"
Dude, what the ****? A software made by a big corporation is NOT homemade or homebrew. I understood your perspective until you made that comment. I am going to design a calculator for the PSP later, in C programming language, with a game engine (good for graphics and input) that I designed specifically for doing simple games on the PSP. THAT is homebrew. No Sony fw contains a calculator, not yet anyway. I know there are plenty of homemade calcs for PSP but I need to practice my programming skills with something easy.
I agree that large scale piracy would make a good reason to not support homebrew but I don't know any PSP pirates at all. I saw one guy I went to school with--he had emulators but not piracy. My neighbor has a PSP but he has no homebrew or any knowledge of it. Those are all the PSP owners I know. Everyone else has the Nintendo DS. Even my mom enjoys playing my nephew's NDS Lite + New Super Mario Bros. more than she does playing my old NES games on the PSP. I think what truly makes or breaks the success of the system is the fun. I love my PSP, but I have to admit that most people around me enjoy the NDS and its games better than the PSP. Even I'd get a NDS if homebrew making wasn't so unheard of and expensive to get into, and if the hardware was a bit more powerful.
The game is okay but the driving and aiming suks compared to gta, thats just mai opinion.
and now they cant steal our money!! id be mad too if i hyped up a *****ty game to make you buy it and u found it earlier how much it sucks. now no1 will buy it. sony fault. make high quality games and people will buy it. i leech everything but i still paid for gta and socom, why ? cause those games were quality!, make a quality game and you wont have to worry about leaks
I got this game ages ago, its good but it needs to have better gameplay, All the miussions are boring as, there all same mission sept for diff senerio and diff gang and you dont even get to make your own player, that woulda ruled. I have given up obn trying to finish it cos its BS
the leaked game wont even work on my 2.8 anyways
I'm teh gey and I love the *****.
The guy who managed to get this out of the factory is probably fired good and good.
I'm not gonna do a rant, but I'm saying: the reason taht Homebrew is being limited is because of piracy issues... like these. So, if you download, you're only hurting Homebrew.
I really don't have a point, since I'm a 2.7er, but I used to have a 1.5 (d/g'd from 2.0). never used ISOs, but I download other music by the bands I don't feel like giving money to.
sony should support more beta stuff like this online. i havent played the game, but if its so buggy, then why doesnt sony just release a demo to the public and accept feedback for it (dont get me wrong, i know they normally do testing in others ways too)? that would be great for both the devs and players. maybe if sony did this more often, they might get LESS PIRATES, even if theres a leaked copy.
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If you honestly believe the reason that sony "limit" homebrew is because of leaked games then i believe you are a fool. Sony limit it because they want the PSP to be owned by them so that there is no chance that someone could create homebrew which could rival anything they charge stupid prices for.
Of course the iso situation is more motivation but to be hounest they will have made more money from people buying the console aware of the homebrew potential than they would have is there was no homebrew. People like me would simply not got a psp and got a ds or something nice and cheap.
And to be hounest I have no problem with isos as most people I know get isos because they want to try before they buy, and most isos are ripped so the game content is lowered. For the full effect people buy the game.
Download what you like, Pay for what you love.
I have lots of isos, i admit it, but i also buy any game i actually enjoy. Wipeout pure, GTA, tales of eternia, even a couple of umds.
So please get down off your high horse and you open YOUR eyes, isos make people aware of games which exist which they may never have done before, homebrew makes the psp ours and functional, U.P allows the psp to be ours whilst dodging bricking because of sonys lack of support for us... only support for money.
So thank-you Logic for your 2 cents, but give them to Sony.
lol @ #3 :) !!
Well, now that I know there's a leaked version I'll be off to go find a copy, thanks qj.net for the tip! :)
"Don't condone piracy?" But where's your first stop for the latest version of Devhook?
Oh yeah, there are erm "other uses" for DH other than playing ISO's,... I forgot, sorry!
C'mon people open your eyes this is a riot in the making and while I don't support ISO's I still don't care if sombody else does and that's my opinion and I have a right to it, now I know somebody's going to be all like "WTF are u talkin' about sony did this horrible thing, hey everyone lets go pwn this wimps @$$" and frankly I DON'T CARE! Why? cause I respect your opinions but you don't respect others. Anyways SONY like every company can't get everyone on their side it's nearly impossible even Nintendo's Wii can't, it's suppose to broaden the age of the people who play games, I won't say Microsoft's already lost but it has alot of room for improving.
Oh and by the way call me as you will I'm not coming back to this forum.
Sharing the game system as GTA I hope it shares the bugs too and maybe we see an exploit soon. That'd be a good shoot to $ony LOL
do you know which firmware you need to play gGangs of London UMD?
its funny how sony is always getting in deep *****.
lm just gonna say this:
The PC as a game system suffers the bigest piracy problem... but still i see DOOM 3, GTA:SA, NFSU:MW, AOE, Half Life etc
And those are some pretty cool games...
Thus Logic how dare u say that psp games suffer because of piracy?!
Darn, even .cso'd the beta comes out to over a gig and I only have a 1gb card right now. Looks like it's time to get a bigger card. On another note is $ony saying dont download the beta and wait for the final version UMD rip? Thats what it sounds like to me. I can wait for the full rip. They were so kind to let the pirates know.
i'm not quite sure but i run it under 2.71 emu in devhook, so it won't be 2.8 i don't think.
Or is sony just lying about that so they can discourage people to download it?
Does anyone who has downloaded it know if this is a complete game?
cuz it feels like an average game and no1's gonan buy it cuz they hear it isnt as good as anticipated, and sony dont want it to flop like loco roco...
Great news, we all get to see how *****ty of a game this is and we wont be suckered into buying it.....WOOHOO!!!!
well well....people,people!! ...pls!!...theres one thing i want to bring to note...why the ***** is pspupdates acting as if it doesnt support piracy..i have seena whole change in attitude of pspupdates.com since sony is on a manhunt of booster......before they used to let ppl download devhook..and now since times changed..pspupdates.com is acting like mr.niceguy....scared *****es...when u dont have guts in ya nuts why to do it...and change sides with time...ahh ***** off.......u have to be on something without changing sides