Modern Warfare 2 Most Illegally Downloaded Game of the Year
Posted by Ashish on 12.28.2009
Torrent downloads continue to rise...
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has been the most illegally downloaded game of the year, with nearly 4,100,000 pirated copies of the game being downloaded for PC. That would result in $245 million in lost sales for Activision.
The Sims 3, Prototype, Need for Speed Shift, and Street Fighter IV make up the rest of the top five.
New Super Mario Bros. Wii was the highest downloaded non-PC game, with 1,150,000 downloads.
Overall, torrent downloads doubled this year over last year's numbers.
Is it really a loose? It's money they did not make-but that's different from a loose.
And again, that's under the assumption that these people would have paid for it. I'm going to go out on a limb and say and majority of them wouldn't.
Posted By: Jerry (Guest) on December 28, 2009 at 09:21 PM
We need to stop this piracy! With so many people illegally downloading MW2, Infinity Ward will lose hundreds of millions of dollars and go bankrupt!!!!
Oh, it was still the most profitable multimedia launch of all time???
If it is a good product, people will still buy it???
I for one am shocked.
Posted By: Guest#6986 (Guest) on December 28, 2009 at 09:47 PM
how do people expeect these companies to keep putting out great games if they don't get the revenue from game sales? stop the illegal downloading people.
Posted By: jaggedfel01 (Guest) on December 28, 2009 at 09:51 PM
some people download games as a sampler of sorts. If the game is good, they buy the retail to get the full benefits. for a game like modern warfare 2 which can't be played online with an illegal copy (well, on official servers anyways), the download is a large-scale demo and if the person is inclined to they will purchase. Also, Activision also has to think of the additional benefit of having downloaded copies. These ppl who downloaded it help advertise the game via word of mouth as well.
Posted By: Shio (Guest) on December 29, 2009 at 01:19 AM
^ to those above... why get your news from the internet? go out and buy a newspaper, or a gossip magazine
Posted By: Registered Guest 3993 (Guest) on December 29, 2009 at 01:53 AM
I can tell you right now, thats complete bs.
Posted By: kevin (Guest) on December 29, 2009 at 07:09 AM
how accurate can this be? From doing a search on the net I see the xbox 360 version of modern warfare 2 being pirated nearly 3-1 over the pc version. Anyway, who would pay for the pc version of call of duty modern warfare 2?
Posted By: kevin (Guest) on December 29, 2009 at 07:14 AM
No sympathy from me. When you're charging up to twice as much for a game and go on record saying you'd like to be able to charge more for it, you deserve to lose revenue. For the record, I bought the game - second-hand, for £30.
Posted By: Cun\' (Registered) on December 29, 2009 at 07:19 AM
Torrenting is f'ing awsome! i've been doing it for years, remember it's not illegal to download, it's illegal to seed it & sell it.
Posted By: 3mocryz (Guest) on December 29, 2009 at 08:48 AM
So do I get an award?
Posted By: Chungles (Guest) on December 29, 2009 at 09:55 AM
The main problem is price point and ease of downloading - most (though not all, of course) of the downloaders do so because they are unwilling to pay the rather outrageous $40-$60 a typical new game costs. And if it wasn't so easy to download cracked copies, many of them would instead just wait the year or so it'd take the games to get down to a reasonable price ($20 or so).
Then there are those I personally know who buy most of their stuff - but only after downloading because SYSTEM REQUIREMENTS LIE, so they're unwilling to risk their hard-earned money not knowing if they're going to have to end up tossing the game onto the shelf for a couple of years while they upgrade their machines.
Posted By: The Ogre (Guest) on December 29, 2009 at 01:43 PM
"That would result in $245 million in lost sales for Activision."
I doubt that. I'm pretty sure that a lot of those folks wouldn't buy it even if they couldn't download it. And, as somebody else pointed out, downloading something is a good way to demo it and see if it's worth blowing a wad of cash on.
"Is it really a loose? It's money they did not make-but that's different from a loose."
When the hell are people going to learn the difference between the words lose and loose?
Posted By: G-Walla (Guest) on December 29, 2009 at 03:27 PM
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