Game Informer: downgrading MW2 is a good thing, and dissenters are nerds

[Jereel Hunter]

vlad321 said:

Jereel Hunter said:

I am still waiting for you to, just once, read my post before responding to it. You only posted a single piracy report from bittorrent referring ONLY to 2008. And yet, that qualifies as WC3 "doesn't make piracy charts" when it was 5 years old in that year. No. Just like you won't see StarCraft at the top of piracy charts anymore, because it's 10 years old. Clearly piracy is a bigger issue for newer games. When people buy an old game it's often because they want a bargain. Pirates have no reason to wait years to steal a game, because it's the same price. Naturally piracy would taper off earlier than sales on a game with massive legs(like all blizzard titles).

So you just agreed sales copes are predominant over pirated copies. My job is done.

(Still waiting)

5 or 10 years after the fact, sure, why not. Up front or LTD? Not so much. Pirates get the game for free, they have no reason to not get it early. So yes, games sales may tend to go on longer than the game tops piracy charts - that says nothing about how much a game gets pirated in total.