The Most Pirated Games of 2009

i'll bet that a good percentage of the modern warfare 2 for pc's bootlegs were just to avoid the manditory internet connection of steam. i would bootleg my game too, but it's not worth the trouble of not being able to use steam for other purposes.

new release games in aus usually start off at $120 which sucks.

And what would be the problem with downloading 50GB ISO? Big hard drives are cheap and even with my slow connection (4mbps down/768kbps up) it would take only about 1.5 days to download.

Of course those who have dialup are a different matter (I know it, a regular CD ISO on dialup takes really long to download).

While BDR drives are expensive, if you play a lot of games it will still be cheaper than buying the games.

@Anon: Wouldn't you consider the possibility of either buying used games, or buying them when they get "Greatest Hits" status, or wait until they end up in one of those "We really want to get rid of these, please take them" $5-a-pop bins? (many great titles have ended up there, like the original Xbox's GunValkyrie, Jet Set Radio Future or Phantom Dust, or PS2's God Hand, among many others)

Ok; but what's the point? I mean, if you play pirated games on the Xbox 360 you are screwed too, sooner or later.

@ ChaosAngelZero

Retard ALERT!

Take your head out of your ass, and use it.
If you weren't some smug moral douche, you'd have known that companies "lose" just as much money from second hand game sales.

What is the difference between a (pirated) downloaded game and one bought second hand? Smug pricks like you get too feel morally superior by paying some insignificant amount just for the sake of feeling like they did the "right thing".

Developers make NO money from second hand sales.
Only dirty opportunists like GameStop make money from second hand sales. If you want to actually do the right thing (aka supporting the developers who have done a good job) then buy new games at FULL price.

Only then can you earn the bragging right you seems to desire so badly. Douchebag.

Oh really?
Or have you been simply paid to think that.
Distributors (not developers!) do not like second hand sells because it cuts their potential profit (virtual, almost like counting on winning on lottery).
But reality is different, for example "used cars vs new cars".
That being said I give QED, though if it is not sufficient example than it simply not worth discussing further...

@HentaiKamen Gamestop pays royalties to some distributors for each second hand game they sell. The money going to these distributors eventually goes into the pockets of developers from their royalties.

Thanks for the heads up, HentaiKamen... dear Lord...

At least used games won't get your account permabanned and brick your console, shitwad. And I'm trying to talk Anon into at least not ending up with a useless brick, since he doesn't sound like the kind of guy who pays 60 bucks for a game anyways.

Use that sorry excuse for a monkey's turd that you call brain to, perhaps, think before you post, idiot.

in b4 xbox fag.

Most people who pirate games probably can't afford the game to begin with. So really, they're not losing much of a profit at all. Not to mention, some people buy the games they steal after they've tried them.

So are they really losing money when this person wouldn't have bought it to begin with? Have you ever bought a game you ended up hating? WHAT A WASTE OF MONEY RIGHT? Well, you'd have known that if you had a chance to play the game before hand.

I'm not going to sit here and convince myself or anyone else that pirating is harmless though. It's certainly not, but it's not all bad either.

That's not true, it's just the same garbage lies that thieves all around spew.

The vast majority of people pirating could easily afford those things they're stealing. They just CHOOSE to steal instead, because they'd rather use their money in something else. Which makes them hypocrits, and you a liar.

Usimyoc is right.

Exactly. This is just another post to further praise the PS3 in all it's short coming glory.

congrats for your 1 inch penis

and thank you for calculating it...

lol nogaems

lol Battlecry.

lol you sound like a damn communist. This is just an evidence that people love free stuffs.

Yes, if that's what it takes to piss off capitalistic-minded people who care only for 'sales'.

And don't we all love free stuff... look at our subs right now.

Developers deserve to have their games actually bought.

I can assure you that they have immensely stressful jobs, and probably more stressful than yours.

They have to work on these games in a very short time frame, especially if they get a lot of hype. Their working hours can easily end up going over 13 hours.

Ever wonder why game designers and programmers arn't millionaires? They get less than a cent per sale.

When it comes to anime, there will always be otakus willing to buy DVDs, and people to watch anime on television. They don't "lose" money on subbed anime. Emulated games are old, and no more profits are made on them so downloading them matters not.

Don't be so stuck up, they deserve money for their work, you free loader.

>Ever wonder why game designers and programmers arn't millionaires? They get less than a cent per sale.

I always thought that the programmers get fixed salary like everyone else.

Hahahahahahahahahahahaha. OFC im a free loader.

An anon justifying why we should buy things...
Obviously, this anon must be a developer himself or just a rich kid who can afford all ori games.

They survive on 'sales' thanks to people like you. So leave the rest off the world alone who are busy torrenting. Try taking your ideals to someone who would cares and agree wif your linear thinking.

Not all users here can afford. But you can I guess.

I laugh at your stupidity.

They do get a fixed salary.
The above anon is just a retard.

They can get a bonus if the game sells well. But usually the people who get rich from successful games are only the company bosses, project leaders and maybe a few select senior employees.

Yes they deserve getting pay for there work but do you seriously think that all of those who downloaded a game they would have bought it? The answer is that very few of them would.
If someone has money running out of it's pockets then why would he not buy the game.
In modern societies everyone wants to sell things, the game developers want there game to sell, the car manufactures want to sell cars, the mobile phone companies want to sell all there new cellphones, the movie makers want to sell DVD's and cinema tickets and many more, but the government allows enough basic salary taking in to account only the basic necessities of food, water, electricity, insurance,clothing and nothing else. They never think that the basic employee has a necessity for some pleasure by getting some of those things. For someone to have money to spent he/she must be successful.

And since the new games are now ridiculously overpriced(the fact that you buy a whole console with the prise of 2 or 3 games says it all) they are obviously for the money holders. So i suggest since the poor guys won't buy anyway, that the companies start giving something special with each game and not just throw a disc in a shitty box so that the rich guys would have a reason to buy them and not think that if i download the thing it makes no difference.

You people stupidly assume that all developers are payed in the same way.

Will Wright gets paid royalties; as do many other 'visionary-class' developers.

Developers at Valve take in hefty royalties per sale of each game via Steam.

But yes; programmers generally get given a fixed salary ~ but that isn't always the case.

Many indie game studios exist and many of their games are pirated. They have no bonus demanding administration so most of the money the publisher gives to them goes straight into developer pockets.

And programming is being more frequently tasked overseas to places like India and China. They get paid pennies to program and no amount of torrenting will decrease what they earn.

indeed. theyve made it uncrackable thus far.

Maybe after the firsts psp's having been cracked that hard they learned from their mistakes and located all exploitable flaws.

So is there no available mod chip for the PS3?
I wasn't aware of that...

One would think that it should be much easier to pirate on the ps3 since it is much more user friendly than the 360, especially now that microsoft banned 3rd party memory devices.

Not even any need to burn anything on blu-ray, just hook up your pc HDD to PS3 and play the .iso like Artefact says. The PS3 would obviously need to be cracked though.

Just look at all the custom PSP firmware...
Why can't they do something like that for PS3?

Everyone is bitching that Xbox 360 ROD is a problem yet Sony games are so hard to copy they are expensive to buy.Yet, I wonder if the Japanese decided to make a Recordable Blu-Ray drive in the market yet to allow all the Bootleggers to make movies and videos?

Who the hell would want a BDR recording drive? BDR's are horribly expensive ($/GB wise).

Unless you mean Blu-Ray Writers, in which case they've been around for awhile. Expensive as fuck though, just like the disks.

@Myballz: "Sony" games (that is, PlayStation 3 games) are just as expensive as Xbox 360 ones. There's just no argument to be had, both the Blu-ray Disc copy protection and Sony's own watermarking or whatever it is that they use in the PS3 games are more effective than the DVD's and Microsoft's, respectively.