{"id":3255,"date":"2009-01-25T19:00:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-25T17:00:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"killzone-2-leaked-on-ebay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/playstation\/3255-killzone-2-leaked-on-ebay","title":{"rendered":"Killzone 2 leaked on eBay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Saturday January 17, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.ps3center.net\/news\/2165\/killzone-2-press-kit-sells-for-589\/\" target=\"_blank\">ps3center.com<\/a> reported that a review copy and press pack of the much hyped &ldquo;Killzone 2&rdquo; for Play Station 3 was put on eBay.<\/p>\n<p>The culprit, an unidentified journalist, placed their press pack on eBay in a bid to take advantage of the huge hype that surrounds the game.<\/p>\n<p>The PS3 exclusive first-person shooter is scheduled for release on February 27. Would-be buyers looking to get their hands on the early leak drove the price up to &pound;400 (R5900) before eBay supposedly shut the auction down.It is against eBay&rsquo;s Terms of Service to sell unfinished software.<\/p>\n<p>Just hours later, the game re-appeared on eBay under a different username. However, this time, the seller opted for the &ldquo;buy now&rdquo; option, and was able to make the sale before anyone could stop it. The seller managed to get &pound;400 for the game.<\/p>\n<p>Ps3center reported that the same user had also sold a Resistance 2 press kit.<\/p>\n<p>Sony did not comment on the incident, however, it stands to reason that the media coverage that the leak earned may be far more valuable than potential loss of a single sale.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php?t=10\" target=\"_self\">Discuss Killzone 2<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Highly anticipated Playstation 3 title gets e-pawned before released<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11681],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3255","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-playstation"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3255","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3255"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3255\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3255"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3255"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3255"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}