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It looks like Metal Gear Solid 4's street date has been broken.
An Australian fan by the name of Paul-H-UK claims to have a copy of the game and has the photos to prove it. He has posted up numerous photos of the game at the PlayStation Forums saying that he got the game from the Australian ebay site.
Somewhere out there someone has broken the worldwide street date for Metal Gear Solid 4.
Posts have appeared from a gamer going by the name of Paul-H-UK who claims to have a copy of the game in his possession and has photos to prove it. He's posted numerous pictures over in the official PlayStation Forums of the game in various states of undress, including images of it playing on a TV.
Quite where the game came from is something of a mystery. Paul-H-UK says he got it from eBay. From the packaging it appears to be an Australian copy, carrying an Australian MA 15+ label.
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- (Playstation Forums) I Have Metal Gear Solid 4! and Pictu... (community.eu.playstation.com)
- Fishy Copies Of MGS4 Already In British Hands (kotaku.com)





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Interesting though on how he/she got it what, 8 days early?
You wouldn't get in trouble. Not unless you used a bootleg, anyhow.
Though I do think there was a case with people getting banned from X-Box Live for playing Halo 3 early, or something....Might have been with unreleased (and thusly stolen) betas, or something though....
Anyhow, one of the big reasons to get a game early, is bragging rights >_> Sure, you want to enjoy the game before anyone else, that is a great, solid reason. But you seriously wouldn't want to brag about getting the game before anybody else on Neo or any other site? Or friends in general?
(If it's true, I am so envious of this guy. Lucky bastard)
These days, with high demands of these big games, it's just an inevitability.
Yeah, that's true. Most of these top games will have trouble with solid release dates. It's really for those particular game stores to get more consumers.
And really, it seems the only way developers can prevent a leak these days is if they hold shipping the game out until either the day before or day of the game's release (depending on how the store works)
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