Rome II already pirated

**john duca** · September 22, 2013, 04:16 AM

I already saw rome 2 on my country torrent site, filelist, and i also saw it even on ... (WORKING AND WITH ALL PATCHES).So tell me , what's the point in buying this game if you can get it free , with all the patches that are coming? You can't make mods like TATW , The sundering , RoTK etc. Don't get me wrong ,I will buy this game at some point but I don't understand what CA meant when they were saying that this game will be protected from pirating.

**SKSlave** · September 22, 2013, 04:20 AM

I don't think any game ever has not been pirated. Rome II was just waiting to be put on torrent sites like these.

Usually I highly disapprove of downloading illegally, but in Rome II's case... no comment. It's not even worth stealing.

**Xyloto** · September 22, 2013, 04:26 AM

Originally Posted by john duca

I already saw rome 2 on my country torrent site, filelist, and i also saw it even on piratesbay (WORKING AND WITH ALL PATCHES).So tell me , what's the point in buying this game if you can get it free , with all the patches that are coming? You can't make mods like TATW , The sundering , RoTK etc. Don't get me wrong ,I will buy this game at some point but I don't understand what CA meant when they were saying that this game will be protected from pirating.

What did you expect honestly? Every major release is up on torrent within 2 days of release! And there is nothing wrong with Rome 2 it's an awesome game that needs some polish. What's the point in buying if you can get it for free? You can get any game on pc for free, why would you play the game for free if you don't like it anyways.

**Kahvipannu** · September 22, 2013, 04:29 AM

I'm pretty sure talking about piracy here is against the TOS (?). I'm just going to say don't pirate people, unsupported games not worth the hassle, just wait for discounts if prices are too high (I picked it up with 40€ already from Greenman-gaming, would had gotten disc cheaper, but didn't want to wait), and you won't be hurting the industry/devs.

**Lugo** · September 22, 2013, 04:38 AM

Originally Posted by john duca

I already saw rome 2 on my country torrent site, filelist, and i also saw it even on piratesbay (WORKING AND WITH ALL PATCHES).So tell me , what's the point in buying this game if you can get it free , with all the patches that are coming? You can't make mods like TATW , The sundering , RoTK etc. Don't get me wrong ,I will buy this game at some point but I don't understand what CA meant when they were saying that this game will be protected from pirating.

What's the point of getting a job if you could just rob banks!!!

**Aaronbaron** · September 22, 2013, 04:39 AM

I'm fairly sure it was on pirate sites day one like most PC games... But imho Rome 2 is now well worth the money, the patches have helped tremendously.

**Radzeer** · September 22, 2013, 08:32 PM

Talking about piracy in general is permitted, HOWEVER this would be off topic here. Talking about piracy in a way as this was normal and acceptable is against the ToS. See the section from the rules below.

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