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pezus said:
Where did you get the 4m number? And what torrent site is that?
Black Ops is pretty much one of the biggest games in recent memory. VGC don't show digital downloads, and if we're really going by VGC here we can assume digital accounts for 50-80% (Diablo 3...lulz).
So, we can assume the PC version sold something like 3-5m. Now, Ubisoft are saying 5% are real sales, which would mean around 76m pirated black ops...
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http://voices.yahoo.com/call-duty-black-ops-most-pirated-game-2010-loses-7496366.html
"Assuming 20 million copies sold at that price, this means the game has earned nearly $1 billion. TorrentFreak estimates that over 4.2 million copies of the game have been illegally downloaded (as of December 26th, 2010). Using the same $49.99 price point, that's over $200 million in lost revenue for Activision (and Square Enix, who publish the title in Japan).
According to TorrentFreak's data, several other games have been pirated a million times or more this year. Call of Duty:Black Ops' closest competitor was the PC version of fellow war game Battlefield: Bad Company 2, which was released back in March of 2010. Sequels Mafia 2, Mass Effect 2, and Starcraft II rounded out the list of the top 5 most pirated PC games of the year. Though PC games are more commonly distributed via illegal downloads, other platforms are still affected. Super Mario Galaxy 2 was the most pirated Wii game this year, with nearly 1.5 million illegal downloads as of December 26th, 2010. Dante's Inferno took the top spot for Xbox 360, with over 1.2 million downloads. Call of Duty: Black Ops also appeared as the 5th most pirated Xbox 360 game for the year, with 930,000 downloads. Considering the Xbox 360 and PC versions come at the same $49.99 retail price, that's another $46 million in game sales lost."
Only torrent. Just one site... the piracy is way bigger than that.