Top 10 most torrented games of 2008

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twesterm said:

Barozi said:

twesterm said:
And people say piracy doesn't affect anything. Even the 10 spot is easily the different between a game that makes money and a game that doesn't.

Assumed that every single of those downloader would buy the game (which is in over 50% not the case)

 

Even if they weren't going to buy the game (which is a bullshit excuse) they are still enabling others so it still hurts the developers just as bad.

From a financial perspective (since you mentioned money), there's zero difference between downloading a game illegally and not buying it.

As for the "enabling others" that's scraping the bottom of the barrel. There are tons of ways to get illegal games which don't involve P2P, and you don't need many people in a torrent to download files pretty fast.

Morally wrong yeah, but the financial impact is not really determined AFAIK.