|  | | Top 10 Most Pirated Games of 2008 | 
As 2008 is slowly moving toward its end, we start taking a look at the most pirated titles in various categories. First up are games. As expected, Spore is by far the most downloaded game on BitTorrent, in part thanks to the DRM that came with the game. Traditionally, games can’t compete with the most pirated movies and TV-shows in actual download numbers, but Spore came very close this year.
Only 10 days after the game’s launch date, already half a million people had downloaded the game. During the months after that, another million people obtained a copy of the game via BitTorrent. According to our estimates, Spore was downloaded 1.7 million times since early September, a record breaking figure for a game.
When we posted about the impressive download rate on Spore - inflated due to the DRM that was put into the game - EA doubted our statistics. EA’s Mariam Sughayer said that every BitTorrent download was not a successful copy, and that several downloads didn’t work, were buggy, or contained viruses. We wont deny that on badly moderated torrent sites, malicious torrents probably can be found. However, this constitutes less than 1% of the available torrents, and they are not added to our statistics.
You can read the entire article at TorrentFreak. | | 12 Comments | | | The last thing I downloaded on Torrent was Windows XP. | | | | Quote: |
EA’s Mariam Sughayer opened her mouth. Nothing but bullshit came out...
| Fixed. | | | | 1,7mln only from torrentfreak... When we will count from top 10 torrent sites... This number surely will be really high. | | | | There are thoes of us that actually buy the games we enjoy though, i hardly ever bother downloading a game anymore, their so big these days, i usualy just do my research, determine if I think I will like it or not and then just go and buy it once its been out for a couple months and dropped into the 30$ range. Man ive got thousands of dollars of games, (like three boxes full of game boxes in the garage) Honestly, the leeches that just download play and dont buy f**king piss me off, their ruining it for all of us, I dont know about you but I want more good games for the pc, you gotta support the industry if you want it to survive, all these douchebags that just pirate and dont buy are killing it for all of us | | | | Sims 2, Spore and Far Cry 2? I wouldn't play these even for free. | | | | Quote:
Originally Posted by Regeneration  Sims 2, Spore and Far Cry 2? I wouldn't play these even for free. | December 2008: Quote of the month. | | | | i guess its like in music, ppl who download the stuff, would not go to the shop and buy it anyway, so there is not much of a loss for the community.
in DEMOS the company put together the best few parts of the games (sometimes the full game isnt even better) and those demos are superhuge to download (nearly as huge as the full game *lol*)
if i really like a game i go buy it.
most of the time i go visit friends who just finished the games (or dont like em), and rent their cdrom (NOT to play online) | | | | We can learn from this list that most of the pirates are little kids and they pirate stuff just because they want to get it for free. There is no excuse for it.
The only title I got from the internet was C&C 3 and with a GOOD REASON. I bought it from EADM, their DRM ripped me off, I couldn't play it anymore and their support team ignored me. So... to workaround this issue, I had to grab its image and to use it with my original cdkey. |
Last edited by Regeneration; December 9th, 2008 at 08:21 AM..
| Quote | | | | | thats for sure, you also see that the most freaky players are 13-15yo
(noticed that while playing clanleague, and listening to teamspeak)
man that was fun, hearing babies talking like big men! 
EDIT: just a quick note, that most adults can say which game they like, most kids try everything... | | | | A problem I find nowadays which encourages piracy imo is lack of solid game demos.
I havnt pirated a game for years, but I must admit I would have loved a GTA IV demo even if it was only 1 minute long to be confident it would actually work. I bought my GTA IV through the Steam download, and whilst it downloaded I must admit to being nervous considering the quantity of people posting on all sorts of forums with major game stopping bugs, and no patch in sight, knowing there would be no real refund available.
I find this is getting more and more common depending on your systems, but a lot of games nowadays do not work perfect out of the box, they are not like the old DOS games, as long as you had an ADLIB or SB compatable sound card you were unlikely to ever find a problem. Also it could be pretty clear how your system would run it.
Atm i have a ATI 4850, and a 3.16GHz intel Duo, but my GF has a Nvidia 7600GT and AMD 3400 dual core, lets put it this way, I seriously doubt GTA would run well on her system, yet the min-specs the manufacturers advertise claim it would, I really dislike having to fork out 30-40 pounds to find out how a game will run and even if it would be playable.
This is where it starts to get tempting to demo a game from a torrent, download, run a level/mission, see if it works, and whether it is smooth enough, then go buy the game.
I havnt done this yet, but it really is getting tempting with the ease of torrents and with the hugely mixed results of games like GTA/farcry/crysis etc.
A lot of gamers are extremely dissapointed with games like GTA when it fails to run, or it has no textures, a demo would have illustrated these issues without the expense.
Bring back demos imo. Not as afterthoughts released 3 months after the game, but as pre-cursors to game release, or simultaneously with game launch. | | | | Hmm, kinda glad i havent picked up gta 4 yet. I agree, largely beta testing seems to have been passed onto the consumer and the prospects of a patch are now based on market sucsess, if the game doesnt sell enogh copies then they dont bother. However, on the flipside of that coin, alot of this is due to the people that just pirate and never buy, if you like the game then go out and buy it. People are bitching that less and less games for the pc are coming out, well maybe if they actually bought some of the ones that did then developers wouldnt be running from the pc market. Honestly if companies like nvidia and amd didnt make insentives for developers to create pc games i wonder if there would be any anymore. and can someone please tell me why I dont get line breaks in my posts?? | | | | EA Sports now there is a gaming company that knows how to put the word monopoly in the sports gaming world. I for one think it's time for them to take a rest and let go a little since they have all the friggin gaming rights to NFL NBA NHL Golf and oh my all time fav Nascar. They bought the rights to Nascar Gaming right after Sierra's Nascar Racing Season 2003 and come on EA's Nascar games just plain suck! It's almost 2009 I am still playing my Nascar game online shoot gaming history right there Sierra thought it might be time to take the lobby of the multiplayer area and wow that just didn't go well after a short time they turned it back on and its still going 6 year run on one game on the net eat that EA. | |
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