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Modern Warfare 2 Most Pirated Title of 2009

Modern Warfare 2 According to TorrentFreak, Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has been downloaded illegally nearly 4,100,000 times for PC in 2009, topping the list after only releasing just two months ago.

Provided these numbers are indeed accurate, Activision has potentially lost more than $245 million in sales on the PC version alone.

The Sims 3, Prototype, Need for Speed Shift, and Street Fighter IV help round off the top five for the year, all of which appeared on the PC platform.

New Super Mario Bros. Wii was the highest downloaded Wii title with 1,150,000 downloads.

The report notes the total download figures for this year double that of last year’s numbers, and that PC remains to be the target for torrent downloads, with more than three times that of the Wii and Xbox 360.

Source: IGN

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13 responses to “Modern Warfare 2 Most Pirated Title of 2009”

  1. Gnoupi Avatar
    Gnoupi

    @slay: Games on PC are 50€ for a while, I don’t really see the issue with L4D2.

    Anyway, don’t worry about prices for PC, it’s rather the opposite, prices are hard to keep high on PC games. Besides games like CoD, or The sims, which have a long lasting value to the clients (they have no problem buying it full price a year after), all other games are dramatically falling in price, only a few months after, especially with digital distribution, nowadays.

    MW2 won’t fall in price, but all other PC games are already losing in price after only a few months. So it becomes only a matter of “do you want to play it on release day”, and after price is falling. Before, games were most likely waiting 2 years before being in the “budget” boxes. Now it’s 6 months, and there are plenty intermediary steps in this decrease.

    You can find Mirror’s edge for a price around 15, without promotions, when it was released only last year, you can find Dead Space for 20 euros after a year. And if you simply wait for all “weekend deals”, then most of games you can get in the year of their release for at least -50% of the retail price.

    So I don’t think there is a pricing problem for customers, it’s rather for publishers, games are losing value at an incredible speed nowadays. And like explained, only games with the same “range” of public as CS, CoD, or The sims (or Spore) can live with such kind of prices, but all others decrease incredibly fast.

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  2. Dragoon Avatar
    Dragoon

    Modern Warfare 2 (MW2) Multiplayer turned into a total disaster.
    The last couple of days I was wondering why I keep meeting so many cheaters. Don’t get me wrong there where always cheaters in MW2 but now it really crazy. It wasn’t until today I found out what happened.

    A certain hacker noticed that VAC 2 was very poorly implemented in MW2.
    An other hacker picked up on that and was able to unload VAC 2 from Steam and spoof MW2.
    This hack doesn’t work on any other game because they all have VAC2 properly implemented.
    Servers will kick you after 30 seconds if VAC2 is not running on client side, but MW2 Listen Servers does NOT kick you.
    That means since December 27 Modern Warfare 2 is not longer protected by any anti-cheat program.
    With this hack you’re able to use any kind of cheat without the risk of being banned. Even old cheats that VAC would block right away work because there is simply no VAC.
    Open season for Cheaters.

    Infinity Ward completely failed on an epic scale. I think the proper term is to call them fucking Noobs. Because even a 12 year old script kiddy with no life may have done it more professional and better than IW.

    I posted this also on the Steam Forum but it got quickly closed by infamous Valve employee BurtonJ.
    Steam forum post (closed)
    Steam discussion

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  3. slay Avatar
    slay

    It was hyped. And most sales were console sales.

    Everyone talked about it, critics praised, people get curious and wants to check out, is it really so good as they talk everywhere, to see it with their own eyes. It is mass hypnosis, a marketing trick. And now we all suffer.

    Remember Left 4 Dead 2? 50€ and people bought it. Now next title 60€ and people buy this.

    So soon will games cost 100€ … And people still buy them!

    We are doomed

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  4. Gnoupi Avatar
    Gnoupi

    @slay, it is the most pirated, but it’s still one of the most bought game of the end of year. So they are right to put such price, because people ARE actually buying it.

    And it’s not really a surprise, this is the new CS, and it targets a very wide range of players, most likely players who play only this game. Price is not really that important if you buy only one game and play it all the time.

    So yes, I agree with you, that 60€ for a pc game is too much, they already managed to impose 60-70 as a norm for consoles, and hopefully it’s very rare for pc. But anyway, fact that it was so much pirated shows only that this is highly popular. If you don’t like a game, you just don’t care even to download it, you just ignore it, like I did with this one.

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  5. slay Avatar
    slay

    BNG’s Tyler Treat writes, “Infinity Ward’s gotta be pretty proud about this one. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 was this year’s most-pirated game. Prestigious indeed. Not a surprise of course, considering it was the biggest game of 2009, but I personally know people who turned to piracy simply because the game lacked some notable features (read: dedicated servers) that most PC games have.”

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  6. slay Avatar
    slay

    HA! Put more higher price, then you will get MORE PIRATED! Now you see by yourself, that 60€ is outrageous price! People simply do NOT have such money. They will go for “try and buy” version. But even if they see that it is good game or when they like it, I doubt that many of people will buy it for such sick price.

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  7. raipekass Avatar
    raipekass

    I agree with Amadeus. Also, some people use illegal versions as a demo to try it out first and “upgrade” to legal later.

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  8. Amadeus Avatar
    Amadeus

    What? They “lost” 4,100,000 $?

    Of all people, you should know that when you download a game illegally, then it’s usually because you don’t want to pay for it.

    So they didn’t lose anything, they just didn’t earn it. Like I didn’t earn a million just now. Because noone gave me a million bucks.

    Silly.

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  9. stead Avatar
    stead

    thats amazing, from the developers point of view they know they made a good game because it so a crazy amount and still got pirated a hell of a lot, if it was just a ‘rubbish’ console port no one would bother pirating it or purchasing it

    i wonder what % of pirated copies are due to the fact if they did buy it they could not sell it on after if they didn’t like it.

    i’ve downloaded games to try before i buy, learned my lesson by buying retail saints row 2 only to realise it runs like rubbish on my machine which is well above recommended specs and then its tied into steam so you can’t sell it on, have since pirated games with no demo to try before hand..

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  10. Betonář Avatar
    Betonář

    I think that this number is highly underrated. Why do I think so ? How many percentage of people buy games ? Majority don’t, it means that overall amount of downloads from P2P and centralised “services” is much higher then TorrentFreak claims

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  11. Gnoupi Avatar
    Gnoupi

    Note that it’s not really surprising, as it is one of the most popular and sold games.
    You find The Sims 3 just after, in the list, quite expectable.

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  12. just_do_it_ffs Avatar
    just_do_it_ffs

    Good, no one wanna pay for a cheap consoleport.

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