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Metal Gear Solid 4 street date broken ... People already have the game!

Gothic Girl | June 04, 2008 | News | Playstation 3 
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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    HisServant77 | June 05, 2008
    If that's real, then I think it's safe to say that FW 2.4 is not coming before the game, otherwise it'd be required by the game and we'd hear all about it.

    Interesting though on how he/she got it what, 8 days early?
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      Ameer | June 05, 2008
      Who said that the game would require it? It's just been said that they would be released in tandem; it's still possible that it is still the case.
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        HisServant77 | June 05, 2008
        Well I could be wrong, but my thinking was that if the FW were given before the game launch, due to the game supposedly requiring it (as is the rumor that it was "demanded" before launch), then it'd come with the game so the necessary functions would work. But, I could be wrong, that was just how I was thinking.
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    Jesus | June 05, 2008
    8 days? That isn't much. I wouldn't have posted it all over the internet though. I would have simply kept it to myself until it is legal.
    • 1 thumbs!
      tallteen86 | June 05, 2008
      Why? It isn't like you'd get in trouble for getting the game early >_> The fault lies entirely with the person/place selling it.

      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?
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    Gothic Girl | June 05, 2008
    STOP TAKING AUSTRALIAN COPIES OF MGS4 FROM OUR COUNTRY!!



    (If it's true, I am so envious of this guy. Lucky bastard)
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    Storm | June 05, 2008
    Lucky's right. I thought having SSBB two days earlier was good for bragging rights, but for him to have it eight days? Likely will beat the game long before we get it. Damn him.
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    Final Blade | June 05, 2008
    This doesn't bother me in the slightest. Big deal he has it earlier. Soon we will have it too. So nothing big.
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    MusiKon | June 05, 2008
    I don't know why people get so upset about this. It happens to just about every major game release. God of War, Halo, Smash Bros., all broke street date somewhere. So really, this was bound to happen.
    • 0 thumbs!
      Gothic Girl | June 06, 2008
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      I don't know why people get so upset about this.
      Because we're the ones who don't get an early copy.
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    Storm | June 05, 2008
    This is different because it's not a one or two day difference...it's a whopping eight days he gets the game before us.
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      MusiKon | June 05, 2008
      And the two week break + internet data leak from Smash Bros. is that different?

      These days, with high demands of these big games, it's just an inevitability.
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        Storm | June 05, 2008
        Internet data leak? Huh? :S

        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.
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          MusiKon | June 05, 2008
          By data leak, I was referring to the ones who ripped the game and posted files online, leading to the find of empty character data for Roy, Mewtwo, Plusle & Minun, etc.

          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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    BANDITO ATTACK | June 05, 2008
    it isn't uncommon for games to leak. especially the big ones. this is no exception.

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