Modern Warfare 2 is Most Pirated Game of 2009
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 broke all sorts of records -- even ones on illegal activities.
Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is 2009's entertainment juggernaut. In its first 24 hours, the game sold 4.7 million copies in North America and the UK, scooping in $310 million.
Infinity Ward's latest cash cow shooter isn't only a champion in the legitimate space – the game also proved to be the most popular choice for gaming pirates too.
According to TorrentFreak, the PC version of Modern Warfare 2 has gathered 4.1 million BitTorrent downloads since its release on November 10 to December 27. Adding in the 970,000 downloads of the Xbox 360 version (for modded consoles), that brings a download total of more than 5 million for Modern Warfare 2.

Modern Warfare 2 is Most over hyped game of 2009!
you can play MP on the xbox 360 with a pirated copy.
and as far as the pc version goes, they gimped the MP so badly this round that noone is interested in it. if the mp sucks, why buy the game when you can just pirate for the single player?
you can play MP on the xbox 360 with a pirated copy.
and as far as the pc version goes, they gimped the MP so badly this round that noone is interested in it. if the mp sucks, why buy the game when you can just pirate for the single player?
Since the multiplayer has no dedicated servers, and just a crappy matchmaking system, the game's only worth it for the short single player campaign... which a hardcore FPS player will blow through in just a couple days.
-Ironically, players who pirate the game can use hacks to get dedicated servers and the dev console.
Not really surprised on the 5 million pirate downloads, but that 4.1 million legit copies sold in the first 24 hours sort of makes me sad... considering the way IW basically stabbed hardcore FPS players in the back and twisted the knife.
@Hix
I like you. You actually spelled "ridiculous" correctly. On the forums here, that's freaking amazing.
no surprise there..
Now if they put in dedicated, I would probably buy it for PC and play it a lot more than I do now on the 360. It just doesn't feel right playing FPS on a console when you did it for so long on PC.
Sadly, the only thing that will come of this is more DRM, which, like abstinence teaching, has proven to not work with kids or adults.
Modern Warfare 2 is Most over hyped game of 2009!
sorry pc gaming pircay does not reach into the billions
http://news.softpedia.com/news/1-Billion-Dollars-Worth-Pirated-DS-Games-Were-Seized-83135.shtml
here is proof that the ps3 can be pirated
video gamer ask torret freak to perduce consoles number for pircay last year they could not do it or did not do it. By the way those numbers are old I am sure those numbers are alot bigger too.
http://www.psxextreme.com/ps3-news/1323.html
here is a little more proof of ps3 pirated
http://www.afterdawn.com/news/archive/10086.cfm
http://www.gamespot.com/pages/forums/show_msgs.php?topic_id=26745912
http://asia.cnet.com/blogs/rehashplus/post.htm?id=63005989
by the way I just want to add all the best features from call of duty seires came from pc gamers on modders.
the game devs did not perduce jack!!!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2NkIfUgjkc&feature=player_embedded
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMfTR8PBrsE
byy the way you don't need to mod your console to pirate games.
I just want to get that out there. The gaming Industry has alot of lairs out there so be clearful.
also I personaly call the gaming industry a dictorship
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ozF4zndGbg
Popularity attracts pirates. Common sense.
So far MW2 has sold 4.2 million copies with another 1 million pirate copies given it a total audience of 5.3 million on the Xbox 360, PS3 aren't worth mentioning and on the PC we know it's been pirated 4.1 million times with about another 1 million legit copies sold for a total playing audience of 5.1 million(guesstimate).
This proves to me PC gaming is far from dead and there's an audience out there to sell you product to and make money from all you need to do is give them what they want. If publishers treated pirate like competition rather then criminals (by offering something they can't) I reckon games companies would make more money out of the PC as a platform then they do currently.
Stop justifying stealing something. If I'm hungry can I go steal a sandwich that's overpriced and tastes bad just because it's not worthy of my money? No! You're still a theif. If you want a game suck it up and buy it.
The only thing I hate more than invasive and irritating DRM is the pirates the necessitate it.
these companies need to lower their prices when they know that cant add enough gameplay.
they should charge as much for a game as will be charged to watch a movie, the cost of making a PC game is often less than making a movie, and the time to make one is about the same also, there is no reason for the $60 price tag
people will pirate less if games were cheaper or at least offered $60 worth of gameplay.
all of the new games pretty much suck with this, one of the worst being dragon age, with only about 3 hours of actual gameplay and endless hours of filler content (walking around with a character that runs slowly and talking to random people or doing some stupid annoying puzzle crap to cross a bridge, this is all time wasting to make a game seem longer, this is done in every current game and it has to stop)