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Originally Posted by imisssunwell
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Thanks for that MORE
http://www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/...y_is_rampant/1
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.
"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). 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.
"[I'm] 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. As the amount of people who pirate PC games is astounding. 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."
Call 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.
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More
http://www.computerandvideogames.com....php?id=204136
A final blow to this whole topic
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...d=apRPoA_dd_7U
Thing is it doesn't need topic discussion, there is this whole world of pirates out there, who don't even check adventure gamers, which is to say its about changing the enitre nature of gamers/casuals/noobs around the world OR come with new distribution model, which was first DRM(now hated) and then ONLINE distribution like cloud. Even steam doesnt work because all games once downloade dcan be played again by crack. There is crack for even DRMs.
With PSPGO sony is fighting it, and thats why PSP is getting outsdtanding ew games this year, they must have convinced develiopers by showing new model since their UMD stuff was plagued by same piracy issue. They are rumored to announce digital distribution at this E3, with RENTALS.
Majority PC game developers moved to console due to profits, i can't link all those interviews, but can tell you ID soft, johncarmack and UE guy markrein also pointed same issues i.e to move on CRAP PC.
