It would be interesting to see The Pirate Bay's numbers for total downloads on each of their torrents. Before they stopped posting that information I seem to remember seeing numbers in the hundreds of thousands for popular torrents and that was awhile back.
Piracy wouldn't be such a big problem if they had actually listened to the customer and brought the price of games waaaay down. Until they do, piracy will be a big problem for the PC.
totalwar23 said:
The author wrote that he or she was keeping tabs on torrent sites so unless the 360 can do that, it's probably the PC version. |
Piracy on modded X360s is big, at least here in Sweden. All X360 games are available as torrents, so the Dark Messiah numbers must be mainly the X360 version.
@Stillwell
How far down in price would they have to go? For example Nine Inch Nails is selling 36 tracks of music for $5 and people are still pirating it.
| totalwar23 said: You need to realize that CoD4 was released last year while the top two are relatively new on the scene. Hell, Assassin's Creed is not even out yet. But, if you believe the author's speculation, close to a million CoD4 copies have been downloaded. Last time I check, I think the retail version sold less than 500K. That's something to take notice. |
Music, lol!
Anyways, there will always be piracy. The question is how much. If they didn't handle things all wrong, there'd be no serious issue right now.
totalwar23 said:
You need to realize that CoD4 was released last year while the top two are relatively new on the scene. Hell, Assassin's Creed is not even out yet. But, if you believe the author's speculation, close to a million CoD4 copies have been downloaded. Last time I check, I think the retail version sold less than 500K. That's something to take notice. |
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You can't stop piracy. It is impossible. You can make it less of a problem though. There really isn't a consensus on how to do that while also rewarding the people who are responsible for the creative input. It can also really differ from industry to industry.
The piracy on PC is rampant while it is much smaller in scale on consoles. They really can't do much on PC anymore, it is too easy to do and too many people know how to do it already. Consoles are developers best bet to avoid piracy (hence Assassin's Creed being released later on PC).
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It's funny to see that list and then go back and look at the people who say that pirating doesn't actually hurt games.
25,000 downloads is A LOT and would give the developers a big chunk of money.
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