Rasczak
Outstanding Member
Some interesting figures have been posted on Digital Spy:
'Crysis 2', 'Gears of War 3' top 2011 most pirated games list - Gaming News - Digital Spy
The key extract:
Also interesting to note that Crysis 2 was the most pirated PC game - especially as it was so rubbish.
'Crysis 2', 'Gears of War 3' top 2011 most pirated games list - Gaming News - Digital Spy
The key extract:
Some fairly shocking numbers there and makes you appreciate why the PC is so unpopular with developers. For example even though Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 sold significantly more on the Xbox (some articles are putting the PC sales as just 15% of the total), PC piracy was FOUR times higher than Xbox piracy. Interesting to note that PS3 piracy, presumably in no small part due to Blu-ray, has low levels of piracy.PC [pirated] downloads:
1. Crysis 2 (3,920,000)
2. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (3,650,000)
3. Battlefield 3 (3,510,000)
4. FIFA 12 (3,390,000)
5. Portal 2 (3,240,000)
...
Xbox 360 [pirated] downloads:
1. Gears of War 3 (890,000)
2. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (830,000)
3. Battlefield 3 (760,000)
4. Forza Motorsport 4 (720,000)
5. Kinect Sports: Season Two (690,000)
...other platforms such as the PS3 were excluded due to considerably low download numbers.
Also interesting to note that Crysis 2 was the most pirated PC game - especially as it was so rubbish.