Modern Warfare 2 Ranks #1 Among Pirates, Too
It shouldn't be even remotely shocking that a game as popular as Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 would have a sizable presence in the pirated-software-pipeline, and so it is: the most pirated game of 2009. 4.1 million downloads of the PC software outstrips previous winners by a margin of 100%:
With 4.1 million unauthorized downloads of the PC version alone, the game more than doubles the achievement of last year's 'winner' Spore. Modern Warfare 2 leads both the PC and Xbox 360 lists, by a landslide.The overall trend across all platforms is that, unlike last year, all of the games are 2009 releases. What makes Modern Warfare 2's chart-topping even more impressive is that this has been achieved after just two months of availability. We further see that the figures for the most downloaded titles have more than doubled compared to last year, equaling the growth in uTorrent users.
And that's the just the PC version - the 360 version has seen 970,000 downloads. The Wii has gotten its share of love from the illegal set, too, with New Super Mario Bros. seeing 1.15 million downloads.
Modern Warfare 2 Most Pirated Game of 2009 [TorrentFreak]
[via GamePolitics]
tiny dancer
Posted to Video Games on 30 December 2009
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And yet, Modern warfare has made a mountain load of profits And it's community is ever growing.
It's puzzling to know if we Simply-by-the-rule gamers(i.e who pays)should be worried or not of these pirates...
Oh, that's the first I've ever heard of utorrent.
Thanks! Uh, I mean how informative Tiny.