Piracy is a MASSIVE problem especially in these hard times. I expect to be paid for doing my job and developers deserve to be paid for their work. You hurt developers and especially gamers with every game you DON'T pay for. If you don't have much money, then WAIT. Games come down in price over time. There would be more games available, they would have a higher level of design and polish and they would probably be cheaper overall if developers were more profitable. People that pirate games are even more disgusting to me than the rampant fanboyism that is on this site. I pray that every one of them has a rampant string of hardware failure, not just their consoles but their tv's, receivers, speakers, monitors and everything else they use to enjoy the fruit of other people's labour. They make the most vile rotting feces found in the sewer seem like a bouquet of flowers in comparison.

Dont come up here acting all high and mighty like you have never pirated a piece of music or a film or a peice of software or anything like that.

Devs want paid? Then they should make better shít that cant be hacked, like Sony did.

You guys are just poor, cheap pieces of sh!t. Talking about how you are stealing software, why not pay for it like everyone else?

And to the idiot above me... "devs should make games that are not hackable" so it's their fault loser hackers and thieves like you have no life and steal..what kind of moron ideology do you have? Well maybe gun makers should make guns that don't kill, or how about idiot parent's such as yours shouldn't produce such stupid offspring i.e. you!

People who steal VG are pathetic...so pathetic, go grab a knife and run into it, you're all useless

hahaha wtf? Let me get this straight... In order for one to have a life, one must buy video games?? I think someone is just a little bit jealous that they cannot download there games. I will quite happily download games for FREE and get them BEFORE you. Just like I will download my music for my ipod and my blurays for my ps3.

So enjoy your wait and enjoy paying for all your games.

anh_duong, actually its ixtreme 1.51

v1.51 will fix the Wave3 issue apparently.

v1.6 will also contain this, but will have a new feature where you can rip a game straight from the 360 drive.

@cicinho

Actually, I own over 350 cd's, over 700 DVD's, almost 100 Blu-rays, all of my computers run purchased copies of windows and all my consoles including the pc run purchased copies of games. I can see that you have such low moral caliber that you assume that everybody steals something and that actually means they have a 'life'. How utterly pathetic. I'm sorry but I believe in an equitable distribution of wealth and people deserve to be paid for the work that they do. For example, when I walk into your workplace, I pay for my whopper because I believe guys like you should be paid even if all they do in life is scrape spent grease out of the dumpster out back. See, even guys like you are useful.

Those jerks at corporate are rolling cash anyway. Same with the muscisian.

Also, the amount of people who download illegally is negligible compared to those who download from Itunes, which is probably one of the biggest rip offs ever.

Well done to the posters above who condone piracy. You are totally f*cking lame. Plus your excuses for piracy are equally lame!

@ Anh_Duong "no need to worry. apparently 1.6 ixtreme firmware due out has a fix for this third wave." - Well thats just a perfectly acceptable comment. No need to worry? Are you for f*cking real?

@ Cicinho "Dont come up here acting all high and mighty like you have never pirated a piece of music or a film or a peice of software or anything like that.

Devs want paid? Then they should make better shít that cant be hacked, like Sony did." - So going by your way of thinking, car manufacturers should make better locks on their cars to prevent car thieves (SCUM!!!!) from breaking in. Who is the criminal here man?

We all have a responsibility for our own actions. Stealing a car, breaking into someone's house, stealing IP from movie studios or game devs which you have not paid for are all criminal offences whether you think you can separate them or not.

Wake up and smell the BS your shovelling.

Complain and moan about the dwindling economy, but ignore one of the rather blatant reasons for it being so bad. When you take something of value without paying, you essentially devalue it, and as we all know, economies, medicine, research, and even ubran development, run on money. Theft is theft(larceny), its very simple, and soon enough the new geneva conventions policies for piracy are about to crack down on offenders, so dont moan and complain when you get burned from committing a crime that you so readily defend, and dont complain when your belongings get repossessed or foreclosed on for compensation. Though I'm sure your stand against the policy of charging for software and services rendered, will fall on the deaf ears of a jury. Money bleeding through the cracks is bad for everyone, whether you know what your doing or not.

so lol useless, u can't convince him that piracy is not bad(i am not sayin my opinion here) and u're not going to redeem him by swearing and using this language :p to each his own :p
well now i may have used pirated software but that was only for *TRIAL* purposes, so piracy can make a great publicity to a software, because i've bought many programs after *TRYING* em(cough windows included, so I didn't spend my money on a product like Vista :p)
Now as for games/movies, well u can't *TRY* those products because they're often used one time, i rarely watched a movie more than once, so one can turn to other outlets to see if the product is purchase-worthy like reviews, but since video games review are an untter joke these days, i look for a demo, if i don't find one, i may find myself *TRYING* the product :p...
btw lol @ geneva conventions, useless.. for example: did that stop the sh!t in guantanamo?... :p

@gameplayer:

No its not the same. I am not actually taking anything. I am merely copying it. By me making a copy of a game or off an music cd or off anything else. I am not denying someone else the oppertunity of buying it am i? I dont intend to buy these games, I only bought the xbox so I could flash it and download the games. If I wanted to buy them I would have had a 360 long ago.

If I make a copy or dont make a copy its not going to make any difference to anyone because I wouldn't have bought it anyway and I am not denying another person the chance to buy so therefor the company loses nothing.

@Mister Dawg:

I didn't say it wasn't a crime to do it but I dont care anyway. Its a crime to smoke marijuana in my country, its not going to stop me doing that. It was a crime to drink alchohol before the age of 18 and it never stopped me doing that. There are many crimes in this world and each of us do them.

we are all criminals in one stage or our lives.

@qdog:

No one is taking nothing, just copying a game that most likely they would have not bought. These games are dear enough and they sell enough so what happens if Mr Newell cant afford the extra hot tub in his airplane then he can cry all the way to his mansion.

WTF?

You said "If I make a copy or dont make a copy its not going to make any difference to anyone because I wouldn't have bought it anyway"

Tell me genius, what is the effect if 1,000,000 people think the same way as you and do the same thing by not "stealing" but "copying" a game worth $70. What is the loss? Stealing doesn't mean shoplifting, it means taking without permission or paying. The only thing piracy and shoplifting have in common are that they are both against the law.

And no I am not jealous that I can't pirate games and other media because I believe in cause and consequence as well as being a good citizen to my country by upholding law. I wanted K2 so I bought it, same goes for every game I've ever owned. I don't choose the pathetic route like you and steal..

The effect of that happening is going to be the same on the production team end. Here you have 1,000,000 people who were not going to buy a game, they download said game and play it because they can. What effect does this have on the company? None because those said people were never going to buy it anyway. So even if they didn't download it, its not going to make a difference.

You kids are looking at this the wrong way. It's not just about piracy. It's about the image that it gives the console. If you think Capcom, Ubisoft, EA, etc look at the piracy on the 360 and don't care, you've got another thing coming. Rampant piracy on a console can turn away developers. It has happened time and time again on the PC. You think that a console is immune?

hehe..Well my favorite class on Baldur's Gate was theif if ya get my meaning *wink wink*

"The effect of that happening is going to be the same on the production team end. Here you have 1,000,000 people who were not going to buy a game, they download said game and play it because they can. What effect does this have on the company? None because those said people were never going to buy it anyway. So even if they didn't download it, its not going to make a difference."

This kind of ignorant thinking is why cheap scum bags justify piracy.