Mercurial Posted September 6, 2011 Report Share Posted September 6, 2011 This is an insanely epic fail on AMDs part. Sure they were free anyways, but this is fucking ridiculous. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mal Posted September 6, 2011 Report Share Posted September 6, 2011 Free with an AMD card. With that said... I demand a new free game since I feel violated as a paying customer! No, I don't want DXHR since I got that with the card as well. Shogun 2? NOPE. I have it already and I gave away the copy via the Melee thing (stare)! SO I WANT A NEW GAME! /sarcasm or some shit ... Seriously though, I wonder if my copy of the game will get locked or something since I got it so close to the leak. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Luftwaffles Posted September 6, 2011 Report Share Posted September 6, 2011 I'm honestly more interested in how AMD handles this leak more than Steam. Because this is so widespread, I wouldn't be surprised if AMD took a more "fuck it" attitude on this one and tried to just cut losses rather than try and take all the bad keys off accounts. The fallout of this will definitely be interesting to watch, especially as someone who redeemed one of the keys and doesn't have a AMD card. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted September 6, 2011 Report Share Posted September 6, 2011 Hakidia where are you getting that number from? That's probably several times more copies than have actually being sold, on all platforms never mind PC. That's tens of millions of dollars worth of missing keys. 3,000 sounds much closer. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Hot Heart Posted September 6, 2011 Report Share Posted September 6, 2011 Three million would be insanity. But even the supposed 250,000 is a hefty amount. http://kotaku.com/5837468/whoops-3-million-copies-of-dirt-3-just-went-missing Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted September 6, 2011 Report Share Posted September 6, 2011 Yeah just checking Twitter n the EG version was posted, noticed it sourced Kotaku, and seems Plunkett doesn't have the same gut feeling I do on hearing 3 million copies have gone walk about. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MasterDex Posted September 6, 2011 Report Share Posted September 6, 2011 I have a hard time believing it was 3 million myself. From the Kotaku article, it sounds like the codes were taken from Codemasters rather than AMD and that makes sense seeing as how Codemasters were just recently hacked and 3 million codes on their servers is more likey than AMD having 3 million Dirt 3 codes. It'll be interesting to see how this plays out. I can't see Valve banning every user that used one of those keys but I would expect Codemasters to get Valve to remove the copies. That seems the sensible approach. There's also a small chance that they just cut their losses. Dirt 3 seems to be half-game, half-advertisement for the other half of the game you have to buy. Maybe they'll just let those who have copies be and hope they purchase the "DLC" on the Live Marketplace. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Yantelope Posted September 6, 2011 Report Share Posted September 6, 2011 Yeah, AMD is probably not moving 3 million cards quickly enough to warrant getting that many keys from codemasters. Still, it does bring to mind the question involving direct download which is what do you do to prevent this? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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