It blows me away at the amount of people willing to steal games (or anything) simply because it's not physical or it's on the safety of the internet to do."Ĭall of Duty 4 isn't the only game that has suffered because of pirates this year - both Crysis and Unreal Tournament 3 have had disappointing sales, which publishers chalk up to a mixture of piracy and steep system requirements.
As the amount of people who pirate PC games is astounding. " not sure if I can share the exact numbers or percentage of PC players with you, but I'll check and see if I can I'll update with them. What wasn't fantastic was the percentage of those numbers who were playing on stolen copies of the game on stolen / cracked CD keys of pirated copies (and that was only people playing online)," said Robert. " On another PC related note, we pulled some disturbing numbers this past week about the amount of PC players currently playing Multiplayer (which was fantastic).
Piracy has always been a big problem for computer games and, while our console brethren still have the capacity to play illegal games, the practice is radically less popular than on PCs.Īccording to a developer blog written by Robert Bowling, Community Relations Manager at Infinity Ward, Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is a game which is suffering especially at the hands of game pirates.
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