It sucks when things like this happen because now whenever I go to seedier forums, I'll hear stories of people's Scribblenauts adventures for the next 4 days until the 15th.

really sucks! People that made the game spent such a long time working on it and seeing it go away like that must be a pain... well we nearly there for the full release!

Haven't you been hearing tons of stories already? People have been talking about the show floor demos for weeks now. Hell, i went and rickrolled god last week at PAX

" Haven't you been hearing tons of stories already? People have been talking about the show floor demos for weeks now. Hell, i went and rickrolled god last week at PAX "

It's unfortunate. This may end up being one of the more pirated DS games in the history of the console, just because of all the hype it has gotten

" It's unfortunate. This may end up being one of the more pirated DS games in the history of the console, just because of all the hype it has gotten "

NickM: Actually, Chinatown Wars is the most pirated DS game.
 
Edit: Nevermind. The game really has been leaked.

Appearently, Scribblenauts is only 10mb in size. ._.

This game should have come onto DSiWare and been spared by these cheap ass pirating cunts. The sequel may well do if it suffers GTA level piracy.
 
DO THE RIGHT THING, BUY THE GAME.

" This game should have come onto DSiWare and been spared by these cheap ass pirating cunts. The sequel may well do if it suffers GTA level piracy.
 
DO THE RIGHT THING, BUY THE GAME. "

It's out (well leaked) already?!

" This game should have come onto DSiWare and been spared by these cheap ass pirating cunts."

" @Linkyshinks said:

" This game should have come onto DSiWare and been spared by these cheap ass pirating cunts."

While it would probably stop the pirates (for a while anyways) do you think there is enough DSi's alone to warrent it? Im thinking the amount of DS's total (fat, slim and DSi) outweights that potential market including the pirate portion of it. "

" @Linkyshinks said:

" This game should have come onto DSiWare and been spared by these cheap ass pirating cunts. The sequel may well do if it suffers GTA level piracy.
 
DO THE RIGHT THING, BUY THE GAME. "

Scribblenauts 2 better have Colbert. We won't be seeing any such game for a while though, since 5th cell has said they are going to be working on consoles for the forseeable future. Then again, i suppose nothing is ruling out a Scribblenauts WII version.  "
 

We're pretty much in awe of what happened at E3. For some amazing reason people have just latched on to our title and just want to share it with everyone else, it's really incredible I've never seen anything like it. We've been doing DS games for awhile because the tech makes sense, our team knows the DS well, and from a business side it's done well for us, but 5TH Cell will be moving into our first console titles next year and beyond, still making original games you can't get from anyone else.

" Appearently, Scribblenauts is only 10mb in size. ._. "

" Appearently, Scribblenauts is only 10mb in size. ._. "

There might be people who can't afford games, isn't unfair that some might miss out to such fantastic games? I feel DS piracy can be good for that reason. It also allows you to try before you buy. Sometimes, I'll buy a game and regret it, because I didn't end up liking.

" This game should have come onto DSiWare and been spared by these cheap ass pirating cunts. The sequel may well do if it suffers GTA level piracy.
 
DO THE RIGHT THING, BUY THE GAME. "

" @Linkyshinks said:

" This game should have come onto DSiWare and been spared by these cheap ass pirating cunts. The sequel may well do if it suffers GTA level piracy.
 
DO THE RIGHT THING, BUY THE GAME. "

Narrowminded.  Segregation of the market would cut profits. Nobody would buy a DSi for this, and they'd lose money. Plus, the DS gives out no demos, so we're only to go on word of mouth that it's good.  In the UK, DS games are 40/50 of your american dollars. With no demos, and a high price, piracy is naturally gonna be rampant.  Furthermore, not all of us live in the USA. Things don't make it to the UK for a VERY long time usually. I'm pretty sure there's an Australian DS player on this site that can attest to that aswell. "

" @Fallen189 said:

" @Linkyshinks said:

" This game should have come onto DSiWare and been spared by these cheap ass pirating cunts. The sequel may well do if it suffers GTA level piracy.
 
DO THE RIGHT THING, BUY THE GAME. "

Narrowminded.  Segregation of the market would cut profits. Nobody would buy a DSi for this, and they'd lose money. Plus, the DS gives out no demos, so we're only to go on word of mouth that it's good.  In the UK, DS games are 40/50 of your american dollars. With no demos, and a high price, piracy is naturally gonna be rampant.  Furthermore, not all of us live in the USA. Things don't make it to the UK for a VERY long time usually. I'm pretty sure there's an Australian DS player on this site that can attest to that aswell. "

Linkyshinks is UK based, so your post is pretty baseless and judgemental. Well done =] Buy the game. "

I am not about to defend piracy of games.  I don't do it.  However Fallen does raise valid points.  Importing games saves me as much as $30 (~40% off) a DS game, but we are lucky as we have liberal import laws, in respect to tax.  If it is under $1000 (from memory, don't quote me), there is no additional charge.  Plus yes, there can be some significant waits (like Harvest Moon which can be up to 2 years).  However, as there is no region coding, then importing shouldn't pose a major problem (assuming tax issues are not that problem). 
 
It is also a valid point on the lack of demos.  With the advent of the Wii online and DSi, there is no good reason that most games shouldn't have some form of demo available to try.  For those with limited funds (most of us really), then we want to be a little confidant that we are spending it correctly.  I am sure that piracy to try a game could be well intentioned, but due to the entire game being available, most wouldn't bother to get the game legally.  Making demos more freely available would remove one of the major arguments pirates have. 
 
I have to disagree with my friend Linkyshinks about DSiWare though.  I much prefer a full retail game.  DSiWare should complement retail games and be for small budget, experimental ones.  I would never want a game like Scribblenauts as a DSiWare game.  Too much would have to go for the smaller size and that wouldn't be a good thing.

I can now say this friends.
 
I downloaded it, and tested it out.
 
I played about 3/4 levels, then turned my DS off again.
 
I can definetely wait for this game, and I will definetely pay money for it.

Yep piracy is going to happen no matter what, and I really do feel bad for the company but it shouldn't impact them much, many games get pirated and still sell a shit load, look at The Sims.

YAR!  

I'm playing it right now.
Just to let you all know, it's tremendous fun.

" "I would want a WiiWare game, especially after this."
 
Keep an eye out for "Max and the Magic Marker" then. Not quite the same, but similar.
 
" I remember back when the philosophy was larger filesize meant something was probably better than a similar one of smaller size.
 It's 32 MB, like lots of other DS games. It's just been heavily compressed in the .rar file you looked at.  "  First, I was not complaining about the file size, I am just confused by it, as this game is supposed to host millions of animated sprites, some with sounds. Even if they are vector-based, the file size confuses me.  Second, no, the game is about 8mb in size, uncompressed. DS cards only come in certain sizes, that's why many games, even if smaller, are put on 16meg and 32meg cards, but a lot of that is unfilled space. "

Yes, Rok. ROM dumps are always 16, 32, 64, 128 or 256 MB in size. That doesn't mean it's all used space. ASH is on a 256 MB card, but doesn't use about 100MB of that.
 
The game is reasonably broken, btw. Wonky, unpredictable physics and controls that rival the quality of Big Rigs make most ideas you have a chore to set up, even if the library has all the items.

At the risk of incurring the wrath of the whole Giant Bomb community..
 
Yes, it has leaked. I've been playing it all day. I'm actually quite let down, about 80% of my ideas just don't register, leading to a lot of tedious restarting.  Great concept though, and the first time I typed in "Cthulhu", I was overjoyed to see the Old God himself appear.

From what I read on gamefaq boards, apparently some stores started selling them early. I never got around to preordering the game and getting the rooster hat since I've been busy this week, but now I'm afraid it's too late and I won't qualify. :(