Monday, January 2nd 2012
The Most Pirated Games of 2011
Today Kotaku is reporting the top 5 games pirated for major platforms this year according to TorrentFreak. As usual the PC platform is the most guilty almost doubling in pirated copies then its competitors.
Some of the titles listed are not surprising but the lack of a certain title filled with dragon slaying is. Why Skyrim didn't make the top five is anyone's guess. Either Steam is in fact the most user friendly DRM or people just love Skyrim. Either way this is just a small glimpse into the world of pirated software.
Top Five Pirated PC Games
1. Crysis 2 (3,920,000) (March 2011)
2. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (3,650,000) (November 2011)
3. Battlefield 3 (3,510,000) (October 2011)
4. FIFA 12 (3,390,000) (September 2011)
5. Portal 2 (3,240,000) (April 2011)
Source:
Kotaku
Some of the titles listed are not surprising but the lack of a certain title filled with dragon slaying is. Why Skyrim didn't make the top five is anyone's guess. Either Steam is in fact the most user friendly DRM or people just love Skyrim. Either way this is just a small glimpse into the world of pirated software.
Top Five Pirated PC Games
1. Crysis 2 (3,920,000) (March 2011)
2. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (3,650,000) (November 2011)
3. Battlefield 3 (3,510,000) (October 2011)
4. FIFA 12 (3,390,000) (September 2011)
5. Portal 2 (3,240,000) (April 2011)
93 Comments on The Most Pirated Games of 2011
I guess it depends on who posts it, huh? ;)
Damn pirated :(
Now, on topic: 3MM+ of pirated copies are a lot of losses, but unless the companies developing and publishing games are coming with red numbers they shouldn't bitch about it.
Hell, I did !Ain't a big fan of football. Can rot in hell for all I care. Never played it.but I did buy BFBC2 i thought its SP wasn't as good as BF3, i like more realistic campaigns that could actually happen. i dislike SP campaigns that are set in pre-1990. I thought tho that BFBC2 Mp is the best I have ever played.
As for the list, I both bought and pirated BF3.
I pirated Crysis 2 as I suspected it was going to be shit, it was, and I barely ever played it.
I pirated FIFA 12 cos I am really a Pro Evo Soccer man (which I bought) and I think FIFA is shit and I never played it.
MW3 I never even pirated, I wouldnt even take a legit copy if it was given to me for free.
So as can be seen, most of the time my pirate japes dont mean a lost sale to the publishers. The only time it does mean a lost sale is if compulsory DRM gets in between me and the experience of the game. Thus I never bought Deus Ex HR even though I totally loved that game and this is one of the main reasons I amn't buying Skyrim. Amazing as it is in many respects, Skyrim is nontheless hugely overrated and suffers from a severe dose of US script writing gayness......Gothic/Risen are miles better RPGs.
Who else here legitimately bought crysis warhead only for it now to be uninstallable because you no longer have the HW/OS setup you last installed it on and have used up all 5 installations. not gd EA, not gd :shadedshu
While Skyrim does have some minor flaws (e.g. some characters repeating voice lines continuously, or minimal texture problems), I feel that it has something most games are lacking today: a good storyline. Call of Duty <insert number here> is just something you pay $60 for a year for a "reused" game, skip the frivolous 6 hour campaign, join multiplayer, gain points and ranks, frag people endlessly and get pwned by hackers whose hacks probably worked on CoD4. I think Skyrim has a lot of attention to detail as in everything looks different, the level design is nice and challenging, and I've already played for 15 hours without even getting halfway through the game yet. Seems like many games lack the quality and design of their predecessors.
What about most pirated programs or songs?
MW3 = worth pirating = no worth shit.