I've just observed the release of a crack for Fallout: New Vegas at about 12.55am local time.
Even before this, there were already disc clones by 8pm local time. These were not pirated copies as I see it as they still required the proper CD keys. Their purpose is to allow players to download this game faster than the speeds they get from Steam or wherever they bought their copies.
But this also provides a clue as to when the hackers (they call themselves "sceners") got a copy of the game and started working on it. Assuming it didn't take long to upload the game to file hosting websites, they actually took only about 5-7 hours to crack the game.
In other words, whatever anti-piracy measures the game had lasted for merely a quarter of a day. That's just for the PC. The XBox360 version was leaked at least half a week ago.
I hope they didn't spend much on it.
Btw I'm not talking about torrents here. Apparently piracy begins earlier at file hosting sites and people make torrents out of the files from those. Even these aren't the direct connection between the normal downloaders and the sceners. I have no idea how the first uploaders got their stuff from the warez groups. Maybe they have friends, but who knows?
I'm looking for a simple way to use my cider vinegar. Apparently it's best used on salads, but I'm allergic to significant doses of chlorophyll. What do?
I'd logged on since 5.55pm, or 1855 Korean time. I refreshed every minute. The button was still greyed out at 5.57pm. This is what I found at 5.58pm, the minute it began and 2 minutes before the games were scheduled to start.
Maybe there's no SQ stream at all. Maybe how it works is that all the spare bandwidth from the HQ streams is split into lower quality SQ streams and right now too many people have bought the tickets for the HQ streams and there's no leftover bandwidth.
Maybe the Test stream is really from a separate server.
So as usual, I watched it at Team Liquid's website.
No Artosis and Tasteless now. They're casting for Blizzcon, so Idra and Jason took over.
I remember Jason replacing SuperDanielman during the Averatec-Intel Classic days. He's not that great at explaining what the players are doing, but he brings some kind of life to the commentary. IMO he sounds very much like a sports commentator. Maybe that's his actual job and he's here only because he plays SC2.
Idra is another strange choice because he's a player in this very tournament. In fact he's playing tomorrow! So maybe Jason is casting alone for that match. Won't be good. Idra's the one who can guess the minds of the players just by looking at their units, like in one instance, he explained that just by sending 4 early Hellions to try to harass the Zerg opponent, the Terran had already slowed down the Zerg's economy by forcing him to buy 4 pairs of Zergling instead of 4 Drones.
Even if he didn't use them to attack and merely enter the Zerg's sight near the Zerg base, the Hellions had already dealt a big blow to the Zerg economy especially since the Zerg player was trying to expand early.
So this current pair of commentators is actually quite similar to the usual combo of Artosis and Tasteless except the current commentators are much more specialized in their roles. While both Artosis and Tasteless tried to describe what the players do and what their plans are (with Artosis doing better in the latter task), Jason is now the one who does all the describing while Idra does all the guesswork and explaining the significance of the actions.
Blog may not be updated for a couple of days because...
War. War never changes.
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