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Capcom Confirms Resident Evil 6 Leaked Out

Company alleges "small quantity of stolen copies" weeks ahead of release.

A shot of the early copies of Resident Evil 6 floating around overseas.
A shot of the early copies of Resident Evil 6 floating around overseas.

Resident Evil 6 is scheduled to be released on October 2, but some people already have the game. Wait, what?

Capcom is currently undertaking a thorough investigation into reports that Resident Evil 6 is being sold ahead of its official October 2 release date,” said the company in a statement. “At this time, all we can add is that it would appear this unfortunate incident is limited to a small quantity of stolen copies of the German USK PlayStation 3 version of the game.”

Word on Resident Evil 6 appearing weeks ahead of its release date first showed up on NeoGo, and various photos and videos have appeared to validate the authenticity of the original report.

Capcom’s statement this morning backs that up, though adds the new wrinkle of stolen copies of the game.

As discovered by VideoGamer.com, Capcom senior VP Christian Svensson confirmed the company does not intend to change the release date, despite this incident.

“The NA [North American] date remains 10/2,” said Svensson.

Capcom’s biggest problem? It’s not just that Resident Evil 6 shows up on torrent sites, it's that Resident Evil 6 shows up on torrent sites, people don’t care for the game, and pre-orders disappear. Time will tell on that one.

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@swordvan said:

I like most other long-time RE fans am lowering my expectations in preparation for mild-to-severe disappointment. The only real problem I have is that we have yet to see a bad numerical RE game, and I'm starting to think this might break that trend.

Hopefully bad sales and reviews will lead to a RE2 remake? Without Mikami though who knows.

PS: I will still buy it day one to play it with my long time RE obsessed friend.

With the increase in popularity towards general 'survivalist' gameplay lately with stuff like Day Z, I Am Alive, Last of Us ect., it'd be neat to see if CAPCOM once again goes where the money is with a complete reboot, focussing more so on what the series used to be about.

Or at the very least RE6 will completely tank and provide a wake up call to show just how far they've completely boned this franchise. Even the people who liked RE5 are turned off by their latest, that's just how terribly misguided and haphazard RE6 is looking to be. And with the amount of money they've put towards this, and given that this is apparently CAPCOM's biggest project ever, with around 600 people working on it (and for comparison's sake, around 120 worked on RE5), it makes me wonder if they can even recover if RE6 can't match the stupid amount of sales they're aspiring for.

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RE5 killed any interest I had in the series. I hope it's good for the fans of RE but if I get this it will be in a couple years for 10 bucks.

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@Jon4649: Even though the unusual turn of phrase kind of makes sense there, my guess is Pat meant to say "It's not just that Resident Evil 6 was leaked early, but ...[torrents] " or something to that effect. Unless Pat did that on purpose.

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I like most other long-time RE fans am lowering my expectations in preparation for mild-to-severe disappointment. The only real problem I have is that we have yet to see a bad numerical RE game, and I'm starting to think this might break that trend.

Hopefully bad sales and reviews will lead to a RE2 remake? Without Mikami though who knows.

PS: I will still buy it day one to play it with my long time RE obsessed friend.

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The RE6 demo pretty much killed any chance of me buying this at release.

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I wouldn't be surprised if they leaked themselves to create headlines and buzz.

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It seems kind of telling that people aren't enjoying the game, even if they torrent it.

I really didn't enjoy the demo, so I'm fairly nervous about how good this game will be. It's unfortunate, because it really seemed like having some horror elements return (the Leon sections) would be great; but it seems they've just made everything action-y.

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@Hailinel: @BambamCZ: Even then, there is difficulty dealing with it all. If you hit up Steam, you'll see that stuff like Dead Island and such have "German" versions, which are essentially censored versions that run through the Steam DRM itself to ensure that the German national policy on censorship applies. It's fucking stupid.

As for RE6, still no interest. I will rarely say this about any developer, but I'm hoping the game fails. Capcom NEEDS to be sent a message that we won't deal with shoveled bullshit after shoveled bullshit with a franchise name slapped on the front. They used to be a company of quality. What the fuck happened?

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"It’s not just that Resident Evil 6 shows up on torrent sites, it's that Resident Evil 6 shows up on torrent sites"

What?

Edit: I think I know what you mean now but seeing the same phrase twice in a row is kind of confusing.

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More time for people to find all that on-disc DLC, I suppose.

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I stopped looking forward to this game a long time ago. Have a strong feeling it's going to be pure ass.

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It'll be be fine, half of the game will probably be locked behind paid DLC anyway.

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@Hailinel: a lot of the games are still heavily censored, my friend from Germany is getting most of his games from US and UK because of that

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This is the German version that leaked out though, so wouldn't the violence be censored to hell and back, or is that a thing of the past for German games?

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Are these actually stolen or just broken street dates?

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I hope this game is good, but I don't have much hope =(

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Uh-oh!

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This is something that seems to happen a lot.

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A shot of the early copies of Resident Evil 6 floating around overseas.
A shot of the early copies of Resident Evil 6 floating around overseas.

Resident Evil 6 is scheduled to be released on October 2, but some people already have the game. Wait, what?

Capcom is currently undertaking a thorough investigation into reports that Resident Evil 6 is being sold ahead of its official October 2 release date,” said the company in a statement. “At this time, all we can add is that it would appear this unfortunate incident is limited to a small quantity of stolen copies of the German USK PlayStation 3 version of the game.”

Word on Resident Evil 6 appearing weeks ahead of its release date first showed up on NeoGo, and various photos and videos have appeared to validate the authenticity of the original report.

Capcom’s statement this morning backs that up, though adds the new wrinkle of stolen copies of the game.

As discovered by VideoGamer.com, Capcom senior VP Christian Svensson confirmed the company does not intend to change the release date, despite this incident.

“The NA [North American] date remains 10/2,” said Svensson.

Capcom’s biggest problem? It’s not just that Resident Evil 6 shows up on torrent sites, it's that Resident Evil 6 shows up on torrent sites, people don’t care for the game, and pre-orders disappear. Time will tell on that one.