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The most pirated games of 2010 as per TorrentFreak survey of pub. BitTorrent trackers
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echoshifting
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WickedAngel said:
Yeah, you're right. Never mind...not sure it's worth the effort of finding it. I'm sure everything said in the article will end up here soon enough
PetriP-TNT
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Rapstah said:
I bet the servers have been hacked from day one.
Surprised that Halo wasn't #1. The series is dead people, dead I tell you!
Granger Danger
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Simple behavioral economics, really. I understand how you feel about it but you just have to accept reality.BloodySinner said:
red shoe paul
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Yeah, not sure where Reach is in all of this..
Dick Laurent
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except the protection only hinders the people actually buyingBloodySinner said:
benjipwns
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http://blog.wolfire.com/2010/05/Another-view-of-game-piracy perhaps? (EDIT: Or maybe: http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=17350 ?)echoshifting said:
It's now somewhat commonly accepted that 1000 pirates = 1 sale.
echoshifting
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benjipwns said:
Thanks, I think that's the one.
Seraphis Cain
bad gameplay lol
BloodySinner said:
It boggles my mind that someone could actually believe this is true.
I NEED SCISSORS
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Digital distribution future on PC; on consoles, I think they are still making enough profit to not be too worried just yet (except maybe on Wii, but it has other problems).
TemplaerDude
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Seraphis Cain said:
Meh, hard-line extremist approach to piracy. "IF YOU DOWNLOAD IT THAT'S ONE LESS SALE".
People will believe anything.
Seraphis Cain said:
It's not 1 = 1, but you're fooling yourself if you don't believe there are pirates, especially on the handhelds and consoles would have bought the game had they not been able to get it for free. I know a person who pirates games whom I told Kingdom Hearts: Birth By Sleep had a large amount of piracy protection, and hadn't been cracked for a long while after Japanese launch actually say he was going to buy it if that happened for the English release. The game was cracked, he didn't buy it.
CozMick said:
More people have pcs than 360's. So yeah.
Also, lets imagine for a second that all the developers abandon the pc all together. What are all the pirates who are used to getting their games for free going to do? Will they suddenly buy a console and start to purchase their games legitimately ? Fat chance! There is no escape for piracy , moving away from one platform will allow piracy to manifest itself even more on another.
Lostconfused
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You could get it 4 days early.dejan said:
Granger Danger
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Endearingly naive to think an excuse is even needed.dejan said:
echoshifting
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Takao said:
No, it isn't 1:1, but if it's closer to 1:1000, hard-line DRM which frustrates or even dissuades customers is beyond stupid...it's counter-intuitive. No offense but your anecdote does little to defend your point.
vocab said:
Wait, this is no chicken or egg situation here bud. Since publishers can witness more and more what people do to their product, they try to reinforce their protection.
Is there wasn't so many people pirating stuff, they wouldn't try to protect themselves as much. The solution to get rid of stupid DRM is to stop pirating. More piracy will simply lead to more restrictive and punitive measures and therefore will affect good users's experience... leading to piracy again.
The only way out of this mess is people getting a fucking clue and starting to respect the people creating entertainment for them. Even when it's pirating "because it's not worth buying" for whatever reason of yours -- in this case it means you don't need to play it and shouldn't. Or else than pay for what you "try". Reality is that people that can't pass on an average game or whatever game they don't feel like buying are simply golden spoon fed bastards. If it's not good enough to be worth your money, it's not good enough to play/try/pirate and you should do something else with your precious time.
Mr Sandman
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I'm assuming a lot of pirates are cheap assholes (obviously since they don't buy a game that's been 20 bucks since 3 - 4 months after launch) so I bet a huge chunk could barely even run the game (it's got pretty decent requirements; had to throw out the old dual core to play the damn game). Speaking of BC2 of course. I doubt the sales were affected much.
Visualante
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short, single player only. Paid for DLC, hardly a recipe for success.cjelly said:
echoshifting
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Ranger X said:
Well, I don't pirate at all, and there are games I won't buy because of the DRM. Piracy on PC will never go away, no matter what I do. So what's my solution?
flyinpiranha
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subversus said:
Really?
Because that is absolute bullshit.
Sgt.Pepper
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Wii Party? :lol
Pirates are casuals confirmed.
Pirates are casuals confirmed.
ShockingAlberto
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ME2 leaked a week or so early, which is probably the root of its numbers.
Granger Danger
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From videos it actually looks more hardcore than Mario Party 8 did. It's just that I loathe Miis and any games they star in or I might've been interested in the game.Sgt.Pepper said:
echoshifting said:
Easy, voting with your wallet is the way to go. If people don't buy a product they will change it or stop making it. You don't want stupid DRMs in your games? Don't pirate them and don't buy games with said stupid DRM.
Also, this is not about getting rid of piracy completely. I don't know why people are thinking completely white or black. How about we slowdown piracy to a point it doesn't matter much for publishers so you don't get those draconian protections on your games anymore?
Problem here is that this is as much an educational and society problem than a technology one.
Granger Danger
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So did Epic Mickey, that's probably number 6 or so on the list.ShockingAlberto said:
Other M is probably 17 or so.