noooooooooooo

[Lemonking]

http://www.gamestar.de/news/pc-spiele/action/25992/


it says the demo will first be released on gamespot for subscribers only :|

[B-MAn]

Wtf Noooooooo! Pease Dnt Be True :(

[NikolaX]

what a big pile of BS is this. well yet currently unconfirmed
http://bfnation.net/

well back to torrents :)

[Shakermaker]

I'm calling BS too.

[Jimmeh]

I read in on Total BF2, and I'm not arsed. Either way we get it Friday, we were getting it Friday before and we still are. Well, if anything we're getting it early as if it is true half hour after release they'll be a torrent out. So yay!

[Gargantou]

Wouldn't really suprise me, FilePlanet have been doing similiar things for quite a while.

[jimbo118]

i have the basic gs subscription, ie no payments. is it available for that?

[NikolaX]

nope , you must have full account (paid)

available to GameSpot Complete subscribers

[Jimmeh]

i have the basic gs subscription, ie no payments. is it available for that?
Yes, yes it is.

Some marketing scheme that would be :p

[jimbo118]

nope , you must have full account (paid)
gamespot you dirty F*****S!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :rolling:

http://forums.totalbf2.com/showthread.php?t=5012
Whats this about btw? :|

[Burn]

Totall bullshit. If anything it will be sub only on that site, on fileplanet, and on xfire.

[NikolaX]

gamespot you dirty F*****S!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! :rolling:

http://forums.totalbf2.com/showthread.php?t=5012
Whats this about btw? :|

BS BS
*me search on torrent tonight*

[jimbo118]

BS BS
*me search on torrent tonight*
i will also torrent if its up tonight.

[Axyon]

Wow, so you'll have to wait about an hour more before it's spread across the whole internet.

[Burn]

Wow, so you'll have to wait about an hour more before it's spread across the whole internet.

...And then download from a shitty torrent. I think BT hates me, never get more then 50kps.

[marksmanHL2 :)]

...And then download from a shitty torrent. I think BT hates me, never get more then 50kps.



lol I rarely ever get that on any link ever... :(


Wish I had more than 512... shitty BT need to go to hell and burn for their crimes.... against.. gamers..... :p

[Burn]

I have a 2mb line, I shouldnt be getting 50kps on BT. I think my router is f**king with me. :/

[Murray_H]

Wicked! BitTorrent doesn't work with the proxy on my uni connection.....yes!!!1111

[Xune]

You need 8 kb's upstream free for every 1 mb you want to download. I'm guessing that your upstream is 28kb/s so set your torrent clients maximum upload speed to 12 kb/s and you should hit maximum speeds, provided there are people to upload it to you at them of course.

[The Monkey]

Why must I leave tomorrow? :(

[Icarusintel]

anyone have true confirmation, at all that it';ll be out tonight?

[satch919]

haha, Im a Gamespot subscriber! I hope this is true. I'll get my hands on it sooner than some of you bums! :bounce:

[Icarusintel]

haha, Im a Gamespot subscriber! I hope this is true. I'll get my hands on it sooner than some of you bums! :bounce:
not that much sooner, maybe an hour or so

[satch919]

not that much sooner, maybe an hour or so

Yeah, but its still sooner than the others! ;)

[Icarusintel]

Yeah, but its still sooner than the others! ;)
very well then, you have a point

[Axyon]

Yeah, but its still sooner than the others! ;)Okay then, you have fun playing by yourself.

[jimbo118]

You need 8 kb's upstream free for every 1 mb you want to download. I'm guessing that your upstream is 28kb/s so set your torrent clients maximum upload speed to 12 kb/s and you should hit maximum speeds, provided there are people to upload it to you at them of course.
so basically max out your uploads to get a good download rate?

[Icarusintel]

Okay then, you have fun playing with yourself.
fixed your statement

[Gunner]

I have a 2mb line, I shouldnt be getting 50kps on BT. I think my router is f**king with me. :/

If the light is yellow then yes.

[Pauly]

Its not BS- Look at gamespot.com interview with the EA guy scott evans at e3 05- SCOTT EVANS says its gamespot EXCLUSIVE for a period of TIME. -- I didn't know you guys didn't know this.... old news...



Lets just hope that gamespot/center doesent do a DEMOKEY type thing - because then we can't torrent it :(

[Icarusintel]

Lets just hope that gamespot/center doesent do a DEMOKEY type thing - because then we can't torrent it :(
o rly? someone'll crack it, just means a little extra time

[satch919]

Okay then, you have fun playing by yourself.

Oh, I will. I'll be trying out the new weapons and trying to learn the terrain so that when the rest of the community gets it, I'll be ahead of them. Plus, it'll give me some time to mess with the graphical settings to see what runs best on my rig. ;)

Of course, thats if Gamespot does release it early.

[NikolaX]

read my last post in review/pics tread, it clears lots of hardware things.

[Mr. Redundant]

Amish and I were discussing this last night, if it is true, Ima splurge and pay the whole 7 bucks it costs for the account, be it 1 day early or 2. :)


this isn't really a bad thing... it means we will have the option of getting the demo sooner than the 10th if we want to.

unless of course it will only be available to GS complete dudes on the 10th (which would be lame) meaning the public would have to wait.

[Burn]

If the light is yellow then yes.

Indeed! Im to stupid to figer my router our so meh, it can just stick there and mess stuff up, none of my games, or website (Apart from, oddly, fileplanet) take long to load.

[Icarusintel]

where the f*ck is DICE on all this?

[AmishSlayer]

There has been some kind of semi-official info almost EVERY DAY this entire week leading some to believe that the demo would be released that day. I wouldn't count it out...but I wouldn't count on it either.

EDIT: You'd think that if Gamespot was going to be having one the of the biggest demos of the year before anybody else they'd yell it from the treetops. Not a peep out of their site.

[Pauly]

o rly? someone'll crack it, just means a little extra time
No - if they have it act as a cdkey- then we couldn't play it online because everyone would be using the same key.

Although 75% chance they will NOT put a key on it.

[Mr. Redundant]

EDIT: You'd think that if Gamespot was going to be having one the of the biggest demos of the year before anybody else they'd yell it from the treetops. Not a peep out of their site.

true, what worries me is in gamespots E3 2k5 interview he says that GS will have the demo early.

what worries me even more is the idea that the 10th will be the day that GS gets it, and not everyone.... which would really suck.

as you said last night, it would have to come out today or at the latest tomorrow if they intend to have it early.... and they still haven't said anything.
and for the guys who are supposed to be releasing the demo first, they sure have crappy BF2 media... they were behind IGN, and what they did have was a little pewp, a little late.

[Pauly]

true, what worries me is in gamespots E3 2k5 interview he says that GS will have the demo early.

what worries me even more is the idea that the 10th will be the day that GS gets it, and not everyone.... which would really suck.

as you said last night, it would have to come out today or at the latest tomorrow if they intend to have it early.... and they still haven't said anything.
and for the guys who are supposed to be releasing the demo first, they sure have crappy BF2 media... they were behind IGN, and what they did have was a little pewp, a little late.
Then its gotta be today or thursday(which wotn be that much "exclusive")

[Icarusintel]

it is odd there's no advertisement

[Mr. Redundant]

for those not knowing where this all started:
http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/battlefield2/media.html
click on the "E3 2005 GameSpot Live Stage Demo"

if you don't feel like watching the video, I have written down what they say.

from the video interview:
GS interviewer: "I wanna ask you about the PC demo release in June"
Ben smith: "yeah you guys are going to have an exclusive period on the demo you have to go to gamecenter to get it and we are releasing that demo in mid June"

[AmishSlayer]

http://home.comcast.net/~1bravo/BF2_Protest.JPG

lol!

[jimbo118]

http://home.comcast.net/~1bravo/BF2_Protest.JPG

lol!
lmao. :laugh:

[Axyon]

http://home.comcast.net/~1bravo/BF2_Protest.JPG

lol!That's most probably been edited/copied from the UT2k3 demo pictures, some of which were absolutely hilarious.

[Shakermaker]

http://home.comcast.net/~1bravo/BF2_Protest.JPG

lol!


lol, nice.

[Vigilante]

Is it for gamespot complete subscribers or gamespot basic?

[Dalamari]

Cool, so I can get my copy of the demo tonight instead of waiting till Friday

bit-torrent is my friend....

[CptStern]

tonight? hows that? will it be released tonight on gamespt? me is confused ...international politics I can understand but the complexities of game release schedules just makes my brain hurt :)

[Lemonking]

lol stern ^-^

I just wanna it now and I still think EA is the Devil

[Foxtrot]

tonight? hows that? will it be released tonight on gamespt? me is confused ...international politics I can understand but the complexities of game release schedules just makes my brain hurt :)
In some chat or something some guy from EA said that gamecenter (gamespots download site) will be releasing it tonight, I'll get a link in a sec but it sounds like a rumor to me.

http://www.forumplanet.com/planetbattlefield/topic.asp?fid=7419&tid=1667899

[CptStern]

thanks :thumbs:

[Lemonking]

is it here yet?

[Axyon]

Would the boards be this quiet if it was?

[MilkMan12]

Would the boards be this quiet if it was?

Yes cause we would be playing instead of posting

[KoreBolteR]

OH FFS!

i telling you all.. the world is a big con.

before long well be paying 10p to view any site..have taxes and have insurance. :/

[Axyon]

Yes cause we would be playing instead of postingNo, everybody would be going mental while downloading it.

[Solaris]

Hmm.

* considers working out how to use torrent*

[Icarusintel]

OH FFS!

i telling you all.. the world is a big con.

before long well be paying 10p to view any site..have taxes and have insurance. :/
who pays for stuff anymore?

[PickledGecko]

Theres a file called "battlefield 2 (demo).rar" on an torrent site.

321.07MB is too big for me to waste time on checking if its real.

[Icarusintel]

Theres a file called "battlefield 2 (demo).rar" on an torrent site.

321.07MB is too big for me to waste time on checking if its real.
it's CS, supposedly

[Lemonking]

in case you didnt see it yet in the other thread http://www.giga.de/features/live/

[Lucid]

It's bs.
It's not said that it'll be subscriber only on the site at all.
And I doubt they'd suddenly say "Oh, One more thing guys...gotta be a subscriber to nab the demo."

[AmishSlayer]

Another rumor that the demo is coming out at 6pm est.

Quoting this straight from the totalbf2 forums where I found this.

A rumor on
http://xplayn.boomtown.net/forum/topic/9650
:

"Denne fredag har mange gamere med action i blodet set frem til. her vil Electronic Arts sendere deres længe ventede Battlefield 2 demo på gaden og FPS-gamere kan derpå danne sig de første indtryk af hvad der er i vente, når spillet kommer i butikkerne sidst i denne måned. Dog har EA's udmeldinger skabt lidt forvirring. Det lader til, at GameSpot har fået forhandlet sig frem til en eksklusivperiode på ét døgn, hvor andre ikke må hoste demoen. Vi og mange andre er traditionelt imod den slags aftaler, og ville under normale omstædigheder boykotte Battlefield 2 demoen. Electronic Arts siger dog selv, at de ikke forventer at nogen vil overholde embargoen. En lidt spøjs udmelding, som de må se at få talt grundigt med GameSpot om. Vi afventer begivenhederne og vil naturligvis forsøge at kunne hoste demoen allerede på fredag."

(...)

Kilden er blevet bekræftet af Boomtown


(...)


Skrevet: 08 Jun 2005 15:22 Emne: Re: BF 2 Demo

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update: Jeg har så fået det bekræftiget. Det er sandt at gamespot har den 24 timer før alle ekslusivt
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Sidst rettet af @VIKINGdom den 08 Jun 2005 15:43, rettet 1 gang




TRANSLATION:

If you are the lucky owner of "gamespot complete account" you will be able to download bf2 demo by 24:01 (GMT+1, Denmark)

The demo will be out tonight for gamespot customers, and for everybody on friday - SO IT IS SAID

"Many gamers have waited for this friday with action in their blood and looking forward to. On this date EA will out their demo on the streets and the FPS-gamers will be able to create their first impressions of what will expect them, when the game will be in stores late this month. EA's announcements have though created a little confusion. It seams, that gamespot has negotiated itself to an exclusive period on one day (24hrs), where other [gaming sites] will not be able to legitimatelly host the demo. We and many others are traditionally against such deals, and woul boycott the demo under normal conditions. EA says, that they dont expect anyone to accept the embargo. A little weird announcement, which they should talk thoroughly with gamspot about. We will await the events and naturally we will try to be able to host the demo already friday.'

If you want the demo 24 hours before everyone else, but dont have an account, you will be able to buy one for [7 dollars] a month www.gamespot.com

---> The source has been confirmed by Boomtown <---"

(...)


"update: i have had it confirmed. It is true that gamespot will have the demo 24 hrs before everybody else exclusively.

chrisiton.badsted@boomtown.net


and please remember DONT SHOOT THE MESSENGER

pls excuse my bad translation... naturally i was in a hurry

$10 says rumors like this keep appearing until Friday :P

[Lemonking]

omg makes me sad gamespot is a stupid site anyway.....if they would have done the with fileplanet it would have been accepteable (sp?)

[Lucid]

Don't really care anyways, Friday's only 2 days away.

[Jimmeh]

omg makes me sad gamespot is a stupid site anyway.....if they would have done the with fileplanet it would have been accepteable (sp?)

Why does it make you sad? If anything you'll be getting it early foo'!

[Lemonking]

ahahhaahahaahahhaha lol I showed my dad that dictionary(sp?) site he that is pretty funny

[Jimmeh]

ahahhaahahaahahhaha lol I showed my dad that dictionary(sp?) site he that is pretty funny

You a crazy foo'! Sucka!

Why on earth did your dad call you a foo' again? :p But seriously, I'm hoping when get back from me exam tommorow it'll be out.

[Nabobalis]

You a crazy foo'! Sucka!

Why on earth did your dad call you a foo' again? :p But seriously, I'm hoping when get back from me exam tommorow it'll be out.

Same here.

Offtopic: You have GCSE Histroy? Or French?

[Jimmeh]

French. Not really fussed about that. You have English today? Thought that was pretty easy :)

[Shakermaker]

This was just posted on TotalBF2.com (http://www.totalbf2.com):

Demo Update
Thu 9 Jun 2005, 2:18 AM | Rico | 72 Comments
It seems mass hysteria has broken out across a number of sites, forums and our IRC channel, with rumours coming from all directions that the demo could be released tonight. A fake demo is known to be circulating on the torrent system, so be wary of that as it is not Battlefield 2 related at all. The demo is 100% not out, and there has been no official announcement regarding it.

In a video interview with EA's Scott Evans at E3, it was said that the demo would be released exclusively via Gamespot (most likely a 1 day exclusive). A news post on Boomtown (Danish) mentions that this will occur tonight in less than 2 hours, however, this seems highly unlikely and cannot be confirmed. Other sources claim a Friday the 10th release, so keep an eye out in the coming days.

We are well aware of the confusion circulating and will keep you updated with information as and when we get it.


I love hysteria. Ain't it cool?!

[Glirk Dient]

Thats lame...oh well we will all still get to play it!

[Zeus]

ARgh this sucks

[poseyjmac]

is $7 really worth getting an ulcer for? calm down!

[satch919]

Bah! I doubt it'll come out tonight. Waiting 2 more days isn't that difficult.

[Agent.M]

While it would be sweet to get it early since Im a GS complete member I still have my doubts that it is even coming out fri. my money is on sometime next week.

[AmishSlayer]

http://www.gamespyarcade.com/promotions/bf2/landing/index.htm

Oh boy...let the next rumor begin. Tricky wording this time. I doubt it's coming out right after the interview because I'm pretty sure GS gets it first and they haven't said jack about it.

I'm still betting on Friday though.

[BHC]

from planetbattlefield.com

nterviewer: [...] I want to ask you about the BF2 demo release, in June, with GameCenter

Scott Evans: Yeah, you guys are gonna have an exclusive period on the demo where you have to go to GameCenter to get it, and we're releasing that demo in mid-June.

GameSpot

Update: We have learned from various sources that the GameCenter exclusive will be available to everyone to download. It is that they are requesting no one mirror the download for a their exclusive period, basically meaning you do not have to be a subscriber.

[Foxtrot]

from planetbattlefield.com
Rumor from what I have read, various sources.

[Mr. Redundant]

from planetbattlefield.com

Rumor from what I have read, various sources.




http://www.halflife2.net/forums/showpost.php?p=1450000&postcount=42

they may have changed their plans since E3, but that's exactly what he says.