News - Most pirated games of 2011 include Crysis 2 and MW3

[shaithis]

...and in so doing broke the law by redistributing something which wasn't yours? Why would you want to get the disk images before the release date? Could be virus riddled, fake, or an unfinished product.

I didn't redistribute it.....I just downloaded it..... 0kb/s upload setting sorts that.

Why did I want them? Because I prefer not waiting for dodgy snail mail deliveries, nor do I like high-street prices. I also do not like the uber slow download speeds you can get on a big titles release date....and I really do not trust origin....

So, I download the install disks up to a week in advance and then go through the steam/origin install on release day with my pukka key.
Unfinished product.....hmmm....even if it was (haven't had one yet), steam/origin will download the differences.
Fake.....just download another.....not that I've downloaded a fake yet (who uploads 5-20GB of fake data anyway?)
Virus ridden......err, I haven't been done by a virus in YEARS. Doesn't really take more then a couple of mins to ensure what your download is virus free. Uniextract is a great little tool for helping uncover some of the "hidden" viruses.

[Blastuk]

Actually downloaded my copy of bf3 off origin on release day after my physical copy arrived (my drive couldn't read the dvd).. it downloaded at full speed for me.

[Hoonigan]

0kb/s upload setting sorts that.

You're one of them

[OilSheikh]

Both Crysis2 and MW3 were terrible games! They deserve to be pirated!

I am about to dwnld Force Unleashed 2. For a 3 hour game, why should I spend money buying it?

[kalniel]

I am about to dwnld Force Unleashed 2. For a 3 hour game, why should I spend money buying it?

Why should you waste 3 hours playing it in that case?

[kalniel]

They do and they do

Source?

[Kotoa]

Even though I buy the physical copies of my games, I much prefer downloading the games as soon as they become available, and installing them from an image, in silence, than waiting for the game to arrive, then waiting for it to do the long process of installing from dvd. I dislike optical drives, they're noisy and slow.

Although I don't use torrent sites, I use fileserve. But with the recent events, for how much longer they will be allowing public sharing, who knows.

[j.o.s.h.1408]

Source?

The maker of RAGE was saying it o and cryteck. whats your source?

[crossy]

(Just wanted to get the disk images before release date) ...and in so doing broke the law by redistributing something which wasn't yours? Why would you want to get the disk images before the release date? Could be virus riddled, fake, or an unfinished product. :crazy

Hmm, I think we can address the "unfinished product" accusation to the publishers - certainly judging on the number of complaints about flaws in the recent CoD releases.

Both Crysis2 and MW3 were terrible games! They deserve to be pirated!
I am about to dwnld Force Unleashed 2. For a 3 hour game, why should I spend money buying it?

I hope you were saying that first bit tongue-in-cheek - best way to stop terrible games is persuade no-one to buy them, lack of revenue has a marvellous effect on games publishers.

As to Force Unleashed 2 - if it's only 3 hours play time, then isn't it a bit of a waste of time spending 30-60 minutes downloading a pirate copy? Think I'd begrudge the time spent playing that as well.

[kalniel]

The maker of RAGE was saying it o and cryteck. whats your source?

Please link where they said it? I can link to plenty of publisher statements that don't say it, but showing a negative is rather trivial.

[aidanjt]

Please link where they said it? I can link to plenty of publisher statements that don't say it, but showing a negative is rather trivial.

They also don't say that planned obsolescence to force new game purchases and selling DLC are reasons why they exclude the community from creating content, but they still exclude the community from creating content.

[kalniel]

They also don't say that planned obsolescence to force new game purchases and selling DLC are reasons why they exclude the community from creating content, but they still exclude the community from creating content.

I think every game I've played in the last few years has had a publisher which has whole heartedly encompassed community content, so I don't know what you mean. Skyrim is getting DLC, but we're getting a toolkit and content sharing system even before that comes out.

[Platinum]

Both Crysis2 and MW3 were terrible games! They deserve to be pirated!

I am about to dwnld Force Unleashed 2. For a 3 hour game, why should I spend money buying it?

If you want to play it then it must be worth paying for?, Talking like that is just a lame way of justifying piracy to yourself.

Pirates like you that cause devs to ether not release games on the PC these days or do crappy ports.

If you don't think its worth paying for then don't get it.

You don't see me going out and stealing a Ferrari because I want one but don't think its worth the £150k asking price do you?

[aidanjt]

Pirates like you that cause devs to ether not release games on the PC these days or do crappy ports.

What nonsense. Publishers are raking in more PC gaming cash than ever before. 'Piracy' is just a convenient excuse for being cheap, peddling substandard wares, and using a combination of grossly broad and meshed copyright, contract, and crypto laws, most of which big content bribed through, to impose fascist conditions which erode the very legitimate 2nd hand market, which is a *much* greater threat to their substandard product models.

The whining about piracy has nothing to do with piracy, the rate of piracy is the same as it ever was. It's all about control and squeezing more profits from the consumer.

[aidanjt]

I think every game I've played in the last few years has had a publisher which has whole heartedly encompassed community content, so I don't know what you mean. Skyrim is getting DLC, but we're getting a toolkit and content sharing system even before that comes out.

Skyrim having DLC and a toolkit isn't evidence that all games with DLC have a toolkit. There's plenty of games out now which never had a toolkit released for them.

3 on this list alone count among them.

[Platinum]

What nonsense. Publishers are raking in more PC gaming cash than ever before. 'Piracy' is just a convenient excuse for being cheap, peddling substandard wares, and using a combination of grossly broad and meshed copyright, contract, and crypto laws, most of which big content bribed through, to impose fascist conditions which erode the very legitimate 2nd hand market, which is a *much* greater threat to their substandard product models.

The whining about piracy has nothing to do with piracy, the rate of piracy is the same as it ever was. It's all about control and squeezing more profits from the consumer.

So your saying Piracy isn't bad?