Topic: Pirates in the Red Seas and the Blue Oceans! :(

[BlackNMild2k1]

or: "There are Pirates in your Bay and they got their Fingers in your Booty"
The Most Pirated Games of 2009

Sales figures can be an impressive thing, but so too can the figures showing how many times a game has been pirated. OK, maybe not "impressive". "Disappointing" might be a more suitable term.

Actually, looking at the sheer scale of numbers on display here, changethat to "very disappointing". TorrentFreak have hit up all the majorpublic BitTorrent trackers and recorded how many times a particulargame has been downloaded, and the figures are, if correct, frightening.

Modern Warfare 2 on PC, for example, may have disappointed at theregister, but according to TorrentFreak's figures it's been downloaded4.1 million times.

Now, that's not to say there are 4.1 million illegal copies out there.There's bound to be duplicates and errors in the tracking. Nor is itsuggesting that Activision have somehow missed out on 4.1 million salesof the game, because as common sense dictates, a copy pirated does not equate to a lost sale.

But still.

Add in the 970,000 copies illegally downloaded on Xbox 360 and you're looking at a lot of people playing the game for free.

Other popular titles with pirates in 2009 were The Sims 3, Street Fighter IV, Prototype and New Super Mario Bros.

TorrentFreak's charts can be found below, though for some reason PS3 games were not included.

Reggie should have bet on most stolen by January instead of sold vs the 360.

[stevey]

list is fail.

WoG had at lease 1,000,000 Pirate rapings

TorrentFreak's charts can be found below, though for some reason PS3 games were not included.

PS3 has(had) Linux for all hombrew up to N64 level graphics and so none of the smart hackers felt like hacking it because they could(could've) already do everything they wanted.

Like destroying the internet and/or building a supercomputer with unsold PS3


Lesson: Allow Homebrew, Kill Piracy. To bad the PS3 slim will kill that...

[Morari]

Companies should charge less for their games. It's really as easy as that. Oh, and leave out the discs checks and install limits and junk like that. Why would I want to purchase an overpriced game when I can avoid the copy protection hassles for free?

[kraken613]

See Activision. You screw PC gamers and they screw you right back. A $60 on PC with no dedicated servers. LOL

[BlackNMild2k1]

list is fail.

WoG had at lease 1,000,000 Pirate rapings

Reading Comprehension FTL

World of Goo has 90% piracy rate

by Alexander Sliwinski { Nov 13th 2008 at 12:45PM }

The Most Pirated Games of 2009

[KDR_11k]

Fascinating how high Punch-Out is in that list compared to what it sold.

[UncleBob]

I'm actually amused that NPC: Mario Tennis is #5...

[KDR_11k]

Especially considering the pile of unsold and marked down copies I see in every store.

[Guitar Smasher]

Fascinating how high Punch-Out is in that list compared to what it sold.

It's not exactly a long game.  I suspect that many gamers equate this to not being worth full price.  Intriguing enough to warrant pirating, but not enough gametime/content to warrant paying for it.  Of course the true measure of its replay value should be reflected by how many used copies are available.  I don't visit stores that sell used games so I don't know how Punch-Out! fares in this respect.

[BlackNMild2k1]

Guitar Smasher: late Giftmas present for you (I'll send it to your PM just in case)
I gave it to you along time ago, but now you are avatarless once again