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1 Dec 28, 2009 at 00:56 by Anonymous

I dont agree with downloading games

2 Dec 28, 2009 at 00:57 by dR435T4

hAAAA take that you IW bitches! cant wait for cracked dedicated servers 4 pc…

3 Dec 28, 2009 at 01:03 by theddlera

Cock Of Doody – Modern Gay Fuck Stupid 2 is the most downlaoded….. it is shit!

4 Dec 28, 2009 at 01:03 by dR435T4

@ Anonymous,

well obviously your on the wrong site cuz’ theres (atleast for MW2)about 5 million people who think otherwise…

5 Dec 28, 2009 at 01:04 by Alky

I’m afraid that piracy may actually kill PC gaming. Consoles are already taking over.

6 Dec 28, 2009 at 01:09 by Parallax

I have to agree with alky, and given the fact that many games can be played for 50-100+ hours they are much more reasonably priced than movies and other media.

7 Dec 28, 2009 at 01:10 by Hans Pandeya

@1 obvious troll is obvious.

8 Dec 28, 2009 at 01:10 by r3loaded

It was pirated because many people couldn’t justify paying a premium for a 4 hour single-player campaign and a multi-player mode without dedicated servers.

9 Dec 28, 2009 at 01:11 by dR435T4

@ Alky

As long as theres a market for pc building and high-end electronics like graphics cards i dont see why/how pc gaming can possibly be killed by piracy… I agree it is an issue. All it really is, is the general tech-savvy public(pirates) saying that they’ve had it with all the big software companies (like IW) monopolizin’ over the gaming community and jackin’ up the prices for their games/software in a bad economy… anyways thats my 2 cent$ on the topic…

10 Dec 28, 2009 at 01:37 by Yakirev

Everyone who disagrees with downloading MW2, visit the ModernWarfail2 blog.

They screwed over the pc users, slashed dedicated servers and wanted everyone to buy maps from them only.
Exactly the fuckholes you DON’T want to give your money to.

11 Dec 28, 2009 at 01:51 by daviddanut

@8

Agreed, PC gamers were pissed off b eing shafted and so pirated it in their droves. Amazingly, some of my steam friends actually bought it. They regretted it, but they still bought it.

12 Dec 28, 2009 at 01:51 by nope

to the scrubs saying piracy will kill PC gaming and that consoles are doing anything

here are some examples why you are terrible at gaming and PC gaming is doing fine

dx10/11 (consolekids don’t know what those are because their systems can’t do it)

dedicated servers (why mw2 was the most pirated game, not because it was anticipated or any of that nonsense)

blizzard (nuff said)

13 Dec 28, 2009 at 01:53 by Pirate

It reached #1 for the same reason Spore did, people didn’t want to support a company that stabbed them in the back/ put horrendous DRM in their game.

14 Dec 28, 2009 at 01:54 by Holly

@alky

PC gaming has being dying for so many years now, and it has nothing to do with piracy.

People prefer consoles because they only need to upgrade every so many years, but PC’s go so fast out of date that people don’t want to upgrade, it’s gotten pretty bad lately.

PC gaming wont die unless MMO’s move to consoles only and I don’t see that happening any time soon.

Also people get sick of crappy ports from console to PC, RE4, GTA4, DMC the list is endless. They know that if they screw the PC port up they can fix it with a patch or two, but gamers are forced to wait until they fix it.

15 Dec 28, 2009 at 01:57 by nope

wrong holly

and since holly is a female name, I assume you are a female, and if you are a female you have no input in a gaming discussion

byb sweetie

anyway

16 Dec 28, 2009 at 01:57 by CFultz

@2

What nonsense are you talking about “cracked servers”? Unless the game is told to look at a certain ip range to find a dedicated server, you’ll still be kicked out to the IW servers. Also, IW kicks ass in more ways than one. Don’t disrespect the creators of the product you adore.

17 Dec 28, 2009 at 01:57 by nope

wrong holly

and since holly is a female name, I assume you are a female, and if you are a female you have no input in a gaming discussion

byb sweetie

and protip, even if people buy consoles, they will still buy a PC, so there goes your ZOMG I CANT PAY FOR THINGS theory

18 Dec 28, 2009 at 01:58 by dR435T4

lol @ 13

19 Dec 28, 2009 at 02:00 by ahaha

I leeched it. BOYCOTTED IW. You already know why IW. SERVERS, MODS, Etc.

Your loss IW. I would have spent the cash if you gave us what we wanted.

20 Dec 28, 2009 at 02:01 by Sim City

Whoever thinks that piracy will kill the PC gaming industry has obviously never owned a PC for more than five years.
People have been pirating PC games way before the invention of the internet.
As a matter of fact, your dad probably gave out bootleg copies of Breakout to many of his friends when he was your age!

21 Dec 28, 2009 at 02:08 by dR435T4

@14 CFultz

I don’t disrespect any pc game programmers… I’m talkin’ about the dicks that breathe down their necks screaming for a non-hackable game and who drive around in their shiny new expensive cars… anyway who are you to say there will never be dedicated servers? Look at the rate at which its being hacked, there were cheats out before it hit the stores, the console got hacked shortly after… At that rate who knows what will happen to the game in the future… clearly you are not a gamer or even between the ages of 15-40 so troll, please leave us in peace an quiet.

interesting article-> (http://news .softpedia. com/news/Modern-Warfare-2-Gets-Dedicated-Servers-Workaround-127188. shtml)

22 Dec 28, 2009 at 02:16 by AlienDK

Yeah well, some people bought it, people like me. People like me are also the kind of person that wish they had not paid for that fucking crap game. MW2 sucks big time! A HUGE dissapointment. 1. The story sucks, 2. No dedicated servers on PC version? FUCK YOU IW & Activision! I shall never buy any of your games again, probably woun’t pirate ‘em either if you don’t start making some better games. ALLOW DEDICATED SERVERS FOR PC VERSION OF MW2 AND ALOT OF PEOPLE WOULD PROBABLY BUY IT. Fucking noobs.

23 Dec 28, 2009 at 02:22 by Quoted for truth

@13: GG

24 Dec 28, 2009 at 02:25 by Anonymous

Eh, MW2 was awful anyway. Generic shooting is generic.

25 Dec 28, 2009 at 02:25 by Anon

Lol

Remember if you pirate your stealing from jesus.

26 Dec 28, 2009 at 02:25 by TheCareBay

Having bought it I wish i din’t bother the MP is a step down in quality from the last COD.

The single player is good however.

27 Dec 28, 2009 at 02:34 by AlienDK

CoD4 was awesome, MW2 not so much. Waste of money. I could have bought something better :(.

28 Dec 28, 2009 at 02:35 by Infinity Ward SUCKS

Ditto to all the statements above. Modern Warfare 2 is the most pirated game because the developers (Infinity Ward) chose to take the lazy way out and make it a dumbed down piece of S console port that was immediately released on pc.

NO dedicated servers. NO mods. NO console commands even. NO self-server selection. NO LAN multiplayer support for pc. What do they give you? A game slightly more than a rehash of MW1 so it’s MW1.5 more like it. They give you auto pairing/match making which is CRAP, made even crappier by the fact you only can play on IWNet servers.

For all the reasons above. I’d say Modern Warfare 2 DESERVED to be 2009′s most pirated game. AND DESERVES to be continue to be pirated! At $60, the game is a bloody ripoff too, $10 more than regular PC game titles… and with what, 10% the multiplayer functionality. No thanks. I’d take my money and spend it on some other REAL game like Battlefield 2 Bad Company for PC.

You see, it ain’t because people “just want to pirate games”. Behind every action is a reason.

Infinity Ward can go F themselves. KTHXBAI.

29 Dec 28, 2009 at 02:41 by Infinity Ward SUCKS

The reason why Modern Warfare 2′s “pirated” numbers (I prefer to call it file sharing myself) are so high on PC compared to XBox is because of the crappy gaming experience and pooor, pooooor, poor value of the game. Personally, I managed to finish the entire single player in 4.5 hours (seeing I’m not some pro or absolutely 1337 player, this time includes dying and restarting a few times). Spec ops extends playing time slightly, but not a whole lot more.

I know people who got the game, played and finished the SP and SpecOps parts during the weekend, tried out multiplayer, figured it was too laggy and proceeded to uninstall the game. Letting a 11 GB piece of useless junk sit there in your HDD after completing solo mode is a waste of space. Oh did I mention IWNet is terribly laggy and poorly executed (they don’t even show ping numbers anymore, replaced by a stupid, console-lified “signal bar” which is vague as hell. you can’t vote to kick a hacker or abusive player either. and the host benefits like hell, essentially “farming” kills from almost everyone else due to the severe lag of the horrible IWNet)

30 Dec 28, 2009 at 02:49 by Zinky

I prefer free games as opposed to pirated games. I have the original xbox but only use it for xbmc. For the pc I would recommend “Urban Terror”. Runs on Mac, Linux and Windows and there are a lot of servers to connect to.

Hours of fun! :-)

31 Dec 28, 2009 at 02:59 by deathtoDRM

i myself download games and if i like it, its bought and added to the collection of games i have, if it wasnt for torrents a lot of game i have bought i would never have even or seen or heard of them ever, (so in my case) these site are doing free advertising for them. they need to sort these stupid DRM protections out tho, cos they are even trying to limit the amount of times you can play a game now etc (Fear effect 2)you can only install it 3 time.

32 Dec 28, 2009 at 03:01 by Infinity Ward SUCKS

PC game is not dying. Quite obviously the games at the top 5 of the PC list outnumber those of Xbox and Wii because there are so many more PC users compared to console users. Almost everyone has a PC. Even then, there are internet cafes. Do you see XBox or Playstation “cafes” around? All console users have a “PC”. But not vice versa, not all PC users have a console (example, me. and other hardcore gamers. Some hardcore gamers do have consoles but it’s for their kids/spouse/etc)

The games that made it to the top 5 on the PC list also deserve to be there. Those are crappy games (I’m surprised Dirt 2 made it up the XBox list, but not the PC one. Dirt 2 is crap, commentaries are too bloody long). I don’t see Batman Arkham Asylum up there… simply because it was a well executed, good game. Same with other titles like Resident Evil 5.

Conclusion for game developers: You make good games, people go out and BUY them. Simple. Look at Infinity Ward, the best example of 2009 of a crappy stuck-up developer who just want to milk cash out of unsuspecting consumers. By NOT crippling the multiplayer system of Modern Warfare 2, they could have made AT LEAST another 2 million more sales (from PC), which equates to about $120 million. Too bad for them they didn’t. Now there’s word they want to release a patch to support “Mods” on the PC version – TOO little, TOO late. Mods are wanted by PC gamers, but DEDICATED SERVERS and the ability to host your own games INDEPENDENTLY of Infinity Ward are what they want MOST.

What Modern Warfare 2 is, is a CONSOLE game (I suspect they developed it purely for consoles in mind) which Infinity Ward lazily ported lock stock and barrel to PC (which is why all the “console” features like matchmaking are there, but PC features are not), expecting PC gamers to fall for it and spend cash on their stupid game. Well, most PC gamers are NOT stupid, fortunately for us but unfortunately for Infinity Ward.

Another reason why Infinity Ward chose to cripple the multiplayer system on Modern Warfare 2 is so that they can pull the plug on gamers and force them to buy the next installment, Modern Warfare 3 or Modern Warfare 4 or whatever shiit they come up with next. It’s perfectly fine if a company has their own multiplayer servers (ie Microsoft Games with their now defunct MSN Zone) but also provides support for players to host and make their own multiplayer game rooms independently. With Modern Warfare 2 and IWNet-only support, Infinity Ward can theoretically just issue a statement to slash support for Modern Warfare 2 multiplayer once Modern Warfare 3 comes out. What does this mean for you: Modern Warfare 2 is dead (unless you want to play single player again) and they’re essentially forcing you to buy their latest/next title, which is more $$$$ for them.

To all the fools out there (including one of my friends), continue to go out there and patronise and buy Modern Warfare 2…. and soon, you will realise the joke is on you! While the people at Infinity Ward bathe in your cash and laugh their way to the bank. That is, if you have not yet realised that you just payed for a single player game with crippled multiplayer and SUPER LAGGY IWNET.

33 Dec 28, 2009 at 03:06 by Phoenix

the game MW2 really sux !

34 Dec 28, 2009 at 03:10 by techy

The things killing PC gaming isn’t piracy, it’s other things like crappy quality control, bad console ports, poor consumer protection regulations and over zealous DRM that treats the folks that actually purchased the game like criminals.

Here in oz they ask for $100 for a new release and with the Aussie dollar being so high we’re getting ripped off hard. Then throw our crappy censorship regime into the mix and I can see why people would turn to piracy when things are this bad.

Personally I wait for the end of year or end of financial year stock-take sales and get the games for a pittance of what they were originally asking only months earlier or if I really must have a game I’ll buy for the US as it’s cheaper getting it shipped than buying it locally.

35 Dec 28, 2009 at 03:18 by Infinity Ward SUCKS

@31 techy
Umm first off PC gaming isn’t dying. With plenty of console title sequels coming to PC, I’d say it’s far from dying. If PC gaming was dying, why would developers even bother porting over a PC version or developing a PC version on its own (besides the obvious reason of making money). If PC gaming was dying, there wouldn’t be any money to be made, and hence we wouldn’t even see upcoming titles being announced for PC.

I understand your note about censorship. Left4Dead 2 is a prime example; news about the “lack of gore” and “lack of riot infected” in the Australian censored version has been made its way around the next for a few months now.

You should try digital downloading/purchasing of games if you have a sufficiently fast internet connection. That way you pay US prices for US versions of games (typically uncut) and you’re indirectly telling your local people to quit overcharging and censoring by not supporting local stores.

36 Dec 28, 2009 at 04:07 by RoestVrijStaal

More and more games move to consoles, more open source Pc games and emulators for developing and playing open source console games will fill the gap. Paid developers will be replaced by hobby developers and advanced gamers.

37 Dec 28, 2009 at 05:05 by Random Dude

@ Infinity Ward Sucks

Firstly, post 29 was very well put. Well done.

As for downloading games digitally; even on Steam, the price of MW2 and other games for Australians is still the same as the exorbitant amount asked for in our retail stores.

38 Dec 28, 2009 at 05:08 by djnforce9

I wonder if those figured are over the course of one month or since the torrent went up. If it’s the latter, the it’s even more amazing how Modern Warfare 2 topped it so quickly.

Certainly a pattern here. The better a game sells, the more pirated it is as well. In this case though, I’m certain some of that came from ticked off PC gamers who decided to pirated just to enjoy the experience but not pay money to a company that openly dissed all PC gamers.

39 Dec 28, 2009 at 05:24 by Anonymous

Where’s the top pirated games for the PS3? ;)

40 Dec 28, 2009 at 06:21 by ROFL

@36 because you cant pirate ps3 as simple as that! <3 sony

41 Dec 28, 2009 at 06:22 by gogetadanson

This is the only time will ever say this the games industry is worth far more than the movie and music industry put together.

However we do not want to paying ridiculous prices for games stuff, but i will pay upto thirty five pounds new here in the uk for a game but it has to be good fun keepable and be great online is too.

So I do purchase legit microsoft games for the 360 for that purpose alone but tv and movies no chance it has to be mega worth it for that

I am a MW2 junkie too but the game does wind be up

42 Dec 28, 2009 at 07:14 by Anonymous

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43 Dec 28, 2009 at 08:41 by Sceptre

Wow can’t believe such an awful game made #1… What a joke…

@10

Hit the nail on the head, Blizzard is a company worth buying their games. I will be buying Sc2 and Diablo 3 under one condition.. they aren’t pay to play like WoW… that’s pure nonsense and the reason why I have never even played WoW.

44 Dec 28, 2009 at 08:50 by Anon

Oh yeah, this game. The year’s most dissappointing game if you ask me.

But still… It was all the hype around it that resulted in this. I for once am glad I downloaded and played it so instead of spending my money on MW2 and a boring and incomplete game I can instead buy Dragon Age, Mass Effect 2 or any other game that has more replay value and/or multiplayer value than this shit.

45 Dec 28, 2009 at 09:32 by a

To everyone who is anti game piracy, but pro music and movie piracy……. Games are more expensive than a movie or music. I would say that they are overpriced.. but its not ok to pirate a game while it is ok to pirate music and movies? I don’t really want to hear an argument like “games provide more hours of entertainment” because if you sit me down at a game I will be entertained for about an hour and get bored of it. While Ive played some records hundreds of times, and I find an hour of music more rewarding than an hour of playing a game.

This is just my opinion but to me music provides more hours of entertainment.

46 Dec 28, 2009 at 10:21 by dtl

“eflected in the number of pirated copies being traded on BitTorrent”

We’er NOT trading anything!!!!!!!!!!!

47 Dec 28, 2009 at 10:23 by hmmm

There were a few games that I wanted to buy this year.

After trying them, I really enjoyed them, and went to the shop, ready to leave 60€.

But I didn’t. Why ? Because besides the anti-copy protections (that, despite my reluctance, I had decided to cope with), they had that idiotic “online activation” feature.
My gaming computer has no internet connection. And will never.

So, didn’t buy. Sad, but I don’t see the point in buying a game that I won’t be able to install when the company has finally decided the activation servers are useless, in 2-3 years. I talked to a few friends and they told me the same thing.

But I keep checking for the “gold” editions, if those annoyances are removed I’ll buy those games.

Copying is killing the gaming industry ? Nah, I think the gaming industry kills itself alone very well.

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50 Dec 28, 2009 at 12:07 by Anonymous

Okay guys listen up.

IW had nothing to do with unavailability of dedicated servers and mods. It’s all Activision’s fault and therefore they can suck my balls.
I’m NOT putting my money into a company whose CEO measures success by revenue.

51 Dec 28, 2009 at 12:12 by knux

@10 and @40 and everyone else supporting their dumbass comments…

Seriously, comments like that are showing just how childish PC gamers are and I AM ONE! (PC Gamer not a child, though that breaks some law of the internet, I just know it) anyways.

The statistics unfortunately do not prove more piracy = more purchases this time around. Something like 5% of units sold were PC… If anything it just shoved in IW’s face that people aren’t willing to pay for a console port, no matter how great the game may be. And don’t get me wrong, the game is excellent, true it doesn’t have dedicated servers, but it is still FUN and that’s what really matters.

The problem came where they tried to use the excuse of pirates for why there were no dedicated servers. They made it blatantly obvious that they were going to cross the line of DRM and flatout criminalizing and alienating their own fans on the PC. THAT is where they made their big mistake. They could have easily sold 2 million more copies to pirates if they had just acted normal. Plus dedicated servers were hacked in later via the pirated copy, legit, not so much!

52 Dec 28, 2009 at 12:15 by Anonymous

“gaming industry kills itself alone very well.”

lol indeed

this crap with mw2 pc is… a f*cking disgrace

getting interrupted/disconnected all the time because the damn host got dced..

GG

53 Dec 28, 2009 at 12:21 by bruno

60€/70€ for a game is a total ripoff.
all the companies use the same fake excuse that it’s because of piracy, but the PS3 games are not pirated yet there still at the same price as the others consoles.

54 Dec 28, 2009 at 12:43 by Rawrl

Shame that MW2 is a terrible, generic shooter that was dumbed down for the console ‘tards. Why anyone would WANT to pirate it is beyond me.

55 Dec 28, 2009 at 14:09 by MissedMemories

I’m going to leave my 2 cents…

First of all: Modern Warfare was great on single player with all those new weapons to choose from, and the new stuff we tasted THAT COULD BE DONE AT COD4!

Spec Ops was one of those things: Multiplayer Missions against the AI, which are from far one of the best.

I could list more, but I can’t recall ‘em right now.

So, now: When I knew that in multiplayer if you get a 25 kill streak (which also includes powerups kills (aka, from the helicopter) you’re rewarded with a tactical nuke, I just said (not literally) FUCK IT!

Then: IWNet just killed the game, starting with. If I can’t play on USA servers, or somewhere I ping more than 100ms, I won’t be satisfied, but also I must be able to choose were I play.

No dedicated servers didn’t hurt me that much, after all, I won’t buy it or host one; however, if I was going to play, I would have to wait untill there were enough online players to start a match, instead of just going to the server I wanted and wait there while playing whit someone else.

Until here, I already didn’t buy it

Now: PC was most pirated because is easier, and because of what they did to PC version, rather, PC port. AS simply as that.

And a PC is worth of buying: games like Diablo 2 are still played and still are fun. I like it because is fun, because is challenging, and because I can spend time on it. HOWEVER WoW ain’t worth my time: biggest fail of Blizzard so far. But they do KNOW how to make games, or did… Last announcement for Diablo 3 about no lan just hurted me.

56 Dec 28, 2009 at 15:40 by fgdfg

i downloaded it and bought it, i think its an ok game to play… could be better but still a nice game.

57 Dec 28, 2009 at 16:06 by Trelew

There are a lot of gaming stores, like the Electronic Boutique, that have been selling less and less PC games in their stores. Every time I ask why, they always say internet piracy and that console games can’t be hacked. At which point whatever I’m drinking goes spewing out my nose as I am laughing so hard. What a load of BS! They just want us to buy cheaper to make and expense to buy consoles. You can go to any file sharing site and see that console games are there to download just as readily, if not more so, than a PC game.

Most stores say if you want PC game, go directly to the maker of the game and buy it from them. Which they send you back to store to buy their games. argh!

58 Dec 28, 2009 at 17:09 by xNex

nah PC gameing will not die, cos the MMO’s.
And i have this sh8t game, allready regret that i buzed it…

59 Dec 28, 2009 at 17:24 by That Guy From Australia

I was gonna buy MW2 but the it was $120 and i that is waayyy too many lawns to mow for a game that gives my a 4 hour campaine! (i bought forza motorsport 3 insted =]) mabey if they didnt put these outragous price tags on games then i would be more than happy to buy them, or they could do a version woth out the online multiplayer for alot cheaper. and yes downloading games it pushing the prices of games up, ive got a feeling that they are so high and getting hight to make up some of their lost sales? it does cos a sh!t load of cash to make a game these days mabey not MW2 cos it is pretty much just new maps and some new guns + a new campaine. so if some game developer person is reading this try making ur games a little cheaper, mabey people might buy them then!?

60 Dec 28, 2009 at 18:08 by James

Yep, i downloaded the xbox 360 torrent. But, I did buy the PS3 version, soon after I was banned on Xbox live, oh well.

http://bit.ly/DeI1O

61 Dec 28, 2009 at 19:25 by TerribleTony

Bah, it’s just Quake.

62 Dec 28, 2009 at 19:26 by Mr. Mister

first…@12 that is the most ignorant logic i have seen all morning.

second… and for those people jumping up and down saying that MW2 is horrible so people should pirate it, well its the largest selling, and now downloaded, game of the year and possibly history, so obviously the rest of us didn’t give a shit about you spewing the rhetoric off your favorite blog site. Learn to think for yourself. all you’re doing is saying the same thing someone else said a few months ago, the game plays fine, buy a better computer.

third… PC gaming is becoming an antiquated medium, its an obvious trend for anyone that games on a PC, and it is a direct result of piracy being viewed by studios as harder to do on consoles. If you don’t believe me just go and buy the new Mass Effect 2 for the PC…of wait….PC releases are delayed, that’s right. Well then Assassi….nope, thats not out on PC yet either.. Before you jump up and down and scream troll like a trained monkey, remember that the argument for piracy doesn’t automatically mean you’re entitled to everything on the planet for free. Nor does it mean people have to agree with your view of a video game to have an opinion on compensating the authors of a game.

Lastly, if your all so hell bent and screaming that everything should be free until it ahem, “sux less” then get off your lazy asses, go to school, and get a job making something better. I am a big fan of piracy, but trying to say that you not wanting to pay for a game was inspired by your political activism against bad games is a little to “fuck the bread, let us eat cake” to sound like a real statement

63 Dec 28, 2009 at 19:39 by Fr33-1-I'3d-W1lly

i’m not suprized this game was so hyped at being this christmas’s great fps. honestly i feel like Hitler saying this. but there are to many people in this world. a lot of useless mother f*ckers who are nothing to this world besides fruitless chronic masterbators who use tubesocks. who don’t seem to do anything for society. i’m just joking but it seems like people the top dogs who have money to throw around and try n combat the pirates. but they are going after the customer’s. by this global mass of traffic swapping files. they should step back and change the price n ways we get media instead of paying for 10 different formats of say “Deep Throat”. one for your PS3, one for your Xbox 360, one for your smart phone, one for your PC / Mac, one for your car lcd player, one for your iPod classic or iTouch, one for your cablebox service to stream it on demand, one for your shower tv setup, etc the list goes on for that great movie. lol what a great epic movie. of adventure, suspense, drama, and horror as well u know what happens. to bad u can’t get it on all those media outlets only dvd, n a copy of vhs if u want that sticky boner jam version someone has whacked off a ba jillion times w/. and have to get a japanese full body condom to touch it or a bio suite.

oh btw this game is alright could have been a lot better. ya the game is short but a lot of rail shooters, fps, games like resident evil are short and expected to be short.

i do not condone breaking the laws despite. EVERYONE i know downloads things and don’t pay the respectable owners for content. movies, music, books, magazines, free international cable (free airwaves tv, google it w/ dvr n dish), food, weed, blunts, booze, etc.

remember google is your friend. not greedt bas ards.

“This is Jack Burton and the pork-chop express. and i’m talking to whoever’s listening out there. like i told my last wife. i sez honey i never drive as faster then i can see. besides that it’s all in the reflexes.”

what a crazy John Carpenter film.

64 Dec 28, 2009 at 19:42 by SeedBytes

Haha, and so many stupid people tried to play modern warfare online before it even came out too. people will never learn.

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65 Dec 28, 2009 at 21:42 by \\.neo.styles|sSG

I am proud to say that I did not succumb to the allure of a free version and instead BOUGHT the game, like you’re supposed to. That’s right, I payed 60 honest dollars. The game may be imperfect. It may not have dedicated servers for example, but as a loyal custemor, I chose to support them. MW2 has a fantastic singleplayer and that deserves recognition.

If anyone need question the recent wave of legal action piracy and torrents, they only need to look at these numbers. 4.1 million. If anything, this shows how out of control piracy is. If torrents were out of the picture, the game would have probably sold close to 8 million copies, earning it a place among the best selling games of all time. Piracy limits the potential success of anything. How well can you stand out if if half of the copies of your work were not paid for and thus not recognized?

It astounds me that half the comments here are trying to justify theft by claiming that the game was bad. If this was true, then why did so many people want to play it, pirated or legally purchased? We don’t live in a world where custemors can arbitrarily redefine how a company wants their work distrobuted whenever they feel like it. Customers are important, but they aren’t the only ones that are important. Fair transactions consist of two parties : customers and content providers. This is something that pirates don’t and will never understand.

On another note, I think it’s interesting how this was one of the first convictions in a US court. Notice how quick and decisive the legal responce was. How long did it take a swedish court to convict the pirate bay.. half a year?

66 Dec 28, 2009 at 22:40 by Anonymous

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67 Dec 28, 2009 at 23:08 by Jay

Still play COD4, can find plenty of servers on other people’s pc’s

haloCE as well :)

reason :-> not limited to one set of servers, so will not buy the game, nor download it for the 4 hour sp mode, not worth it for me

68 Dec 28, 2009 at 23:21 by whoo FLung Dung

@65 \\.neo.styles|sSG
About the most sensible and trurhful post on this item.

If the game is so bad why didn’t the viral haters stop people downloading it? Oh no it got to 4.1mil because people do want to play it!

I love PC gaming and if you idiots don’t stop ripping off game producers on pc versions I’ll have to buy a dreaded PS3 or a damn XBox to be able to game

Cheapskate idiots : Legally support PC gaming or it will die.

Then you’ll be able to dload F|_|CK ALL.

xbox cheaters banned from Live : LMFAO

69 Dec 29, 2009 at 01:13 by Anonymous

i don’t agree with downloading games.

but i do it becuse im broke nad can’t afford to play some of the new games. so i only download games becuse im b roke and want to try the new games if i like them i buy them when i have the money

70 Dec 29, 2009 at 01:39 by whoo FLung Dung

Presumably you only shoplift cause you cannot afford any food either.

71 Dec 29, 2009 at 02:01 by bennyboytx

As much as I pirate things and others do, I realize this has to stop sometime. The honest consumers are getting the short of the stick, the game developers aren’t getting there credit, and publishers are having to make necessary cuts… I plan on going to college to major as a film director/game director, and eventually I’m gonna bite myself in the ass when it comes to piracy. I don’t care if your broke, I don’t care if it’s so easy, I don’t care if you have a right to share, we’re talking about someone’s life career & passion. Go support the digital entertainment community, or it will eventually stop supporting you.

72 Dec 29, 2009 at 02:50 by FUCK ALL YOU

Moderwarfare really sucks? okay y is it the fastest selling game of all time and y is it the most pirated game of 2009? obviously its a good game or else it wouldn’t be top dog right now, and i bet all you who say it sucks really suck at the game or pirated.

73 Dec 29, 2009 at 03:54 by Anonymous

@Reasoned Mind hiding behind one of his other screen names
“That’s right, I payed 60 honest dollars.”

So you rewarded IW for making a crippled product with 4 hours worth of gameplay? Those weren’t 60 honest dollars you spent. Those were more like 60 retarded dollars.

@Reasoned Mind hiding behind one of his other screen names
“If torrents were out of the picture, the game would have probably sold close to 8 million copies”

Yeah! Thanks to filesharing, Modern Warfare 2 only sold 4.7 million units IN LESS THAN 24 HOURS MAKING IT THE LARGEST ENTERTAINMENT LAUNCH IN HISTORY. Any honest human being could tell you that’s more than enough, but to a vile, greedy whore like you there’s no such thing as enough, is there?

It doesn’t matter to you that the staff at Infinity Ward can now afford to live in solid gold castles. The only thing that matters to you is that if you pretend the one download = one lost sale fallacy is true, that means the staff at Infinity Ward could live in even bigger solid gold castles if only it weren’t for piracy, which instantly makes this whole thing one big tragedy.

Aww. Poor wittle Modern Warfare 2.

@Reasoned Mind hiding behind one of his other screen names
“It astounds me that half the comments here are trying to justify theft”

None of the comments here are trying to justify theft, considering that filesharing isn’t theft.

What excuse do you have to justify your lie that it is? Or will you even bother to make one?

@Reasoned Mind hiding behind one of his other screen names
“About the most sensible and trurhful post on this item.”

You need to quite agreeing with yourself. It’s really, really sad.

@Reasoned Mind hiding behind one of his other screen names
“Cheapskate idiots : Legally support PC gaming or it will die.”

Ah, if only that were true. I’d love to kill PC gaming. And console gaming, too, while we’re at it.

Because there desperately needs to be another videogame crash to reboot the industry a la 1983. With a few exceptions, innovation has pretty much stopped dead in its tracks. Almost everything that gets released nowadays is either a dumbed-down rehash or a pale imitation of something that was already done before, but with shiny graphics and a metric fuckload of hype.

Or in otherwords gaming’s gone Hollywood.

You’ll be happy to know I don’t pirate PC games anymore. I don’t buy them anymore either, but hey, that’s still a win.

Right?

74 Dec 29, 2009 at 04:12 by josh

What does Activision and Infinity Ward have to say about this?

75 Dec 29, 2009 at 04:33 by @72

@72, well, there are two possible scenarios:
1. They’re thinking what a big mistake they’ve made by crippling multiplayer for PC and they won’t do it next time/release a patch (UNLIKELY)
2. They won’t see this or even if they did, they’ll ignore it. They’re going to drop support for PC in Modern Warfare 3 and focus purely on XBox and PS3 next time, seeing they are the short-sighted, screwed-up money-faced company that they are (VERY LIKELY)

As a result of #2, PC gamers will move on to another good title that comes along and forget about Activision/Infinity Ward games altogether in the future. Just like how file sharers move from one torrent site to the next when the previous one is shut down.

PC gaming FTW, PC gaming will never die. Fuck Xbox, Wii and Playstation consoles – they’re for screwed up little children who *THINK* themselves as “gamers” when they’re in fact just a bunch of douchebag sheep who follow the Joe’s next door/their friends/etc just because “they have a [console name] too”

76 Dec 29, 2009 at 05:49 by Ace Hall

From ZTGameDomain.com

Modern Warfare 2 Continues to Dominate Sales
Posted On: Nov 18, 2009

The biggest entertainment launch in history set a new worldwide estimated five-day sell-through record of approximately $550 million, according to internal Activision estimates.

Modern Warfare 2′s launch beat all previous first-and five-day entertainment industry box office, book and video game sell-through records:

* The largest reported five-day opening worldwide box office gross figures, held by Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince ($394 million)
* The largest reported five-day opening domestic box office gross figures, held by The Dark Knight ($203.8 million)
* The largest reported five-day worldwide video game sales record, previously held by Grand Theft Auto IV (6 million units, $500 million)
* The largest reported opening first-day domestic box office gross figures, held by The Dark Knight ($66.4 million)
* The largest reported first-day book sales in dollars, held by Harry Potter & The Deathly Hallows ($220 million)
* The largest reported first-day worldwide video game sales record, previously held by Grand Theft Auto IV (3.6 million units, $310 million)

Modern Warfare 2′s blast radius also extends to Xbox LIVE, in which the blockbuster title’s epic release established the following new standards, according to Microsoft:

* More than 5.2 million multiplayer hours were logged playing Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 on the first day alone.
* More than 2.2 million unique gamers played Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 in one day on November 10th. A new one-day record for Xbox LIVE.
* More than 11 million achievements were unlocked on Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 on the first day.

“In just five days of sell through Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 has become the largest entertainment launch in history and a pop culture phenomenon,” said Robert Kotick, CEO, Activision Blizzard, Inc. “The title’s success redefines entertainment as millions of consumers have chosen to play Modern Warfare 2 at unprecedented levels rather engage in other forms of media.”

I fail to see where the gaming industry is losing anything other than their mind.

Congratulations UnReasoned Mind/.neo.nazi|sSG/whoo FLung Crap, etc…, on the epic fail of being able to make any thing resembling an intelligent comment with any basis on the facts at all.

77 Dec 29, 2009 at 06:14 by KingKiff

Well maybe if they didn’t produce crap we won’t pirate it… I no after this latest installment of “CRAP” I will not be buying an Infinity Ward game ever again… FULL STOP… Guna pirate every time now, betray your loyal gamers that made you and see what you get.

78 Dec 29, 2009 at 06:38 by Ace Hall

More recent info…

Modern Warfare 2 Jumpstarts November Sales Figures
Fri, 11 Dec 2009

Game Sales in America jumped over 150 percent in November compared to the month of October, off the back of Modern Warfare 2 with this November being the second biggest November in games sales history.

This according to the NPD Group, a market research firm.

Modern Warfare 2 quickly became one of the most profitable games in history and has already recorded over $550 million dollars in sales. Anita Frazier, NPD analyst, says Modern Warfare 2 has achieved the top spot for first-month sales of any game at the title level.

“Halo 3 previously held the spot when it sold 3.3 million units in September ’07 in 12 days at retail. Modern Warfare 2 bested Halo 3′s daily sales rate by 16 percent in its 19 days at retail in November.

“While this year’s top-selling item bested last year’s by 283 percent, it couldn’t make up for softness elsewhere. The top 50 games this year sold 5 percent less units than did the top 50 last year,” she says.

The US gaming market turned over a whopping $2.70 billion dollars in November, up from $1.07 billion in October. The industry declined 7.6 percent versus last November, but still produced enough revenue to make this month the second-best November in industry history.

“The year to date figure is still up seven percent over 2007. I think we all have to realize the incredible year that was 2008,” Frazier says. November 2008 saw figures of $2.92 billion with Gears of War 2, Call of Duty: World at War and a string of Wii titles topping the sales lists.

Yes, it certainly looks like no one bought this game at all! We have destroyed the gaming industry, shame on us dirty pirates!

79 Dec 29, 2009 at 07:53 by NINJA

????????????
PC??????????

80 Dec 29, 2009 at 08:11 by knmvsvev

sorry holly please continue your input since some guys r jus plain rude,. but yeah i would jus get a PS3 n MW2 n its settled for life, gettin games for pc’s is really old bcuz theres ALWAYS new stuff for pc’s n costs more $ ta upgrade

81 Dec 29, 2009 at 08:52 by YarrKing

Quick comment about why the game sold so well… The few people I know who did buy it, did so simply because everyone else was doing it. If you play FPS, you usually have to get the latest game other people are playing simply because everyone leaves the old servers to play the new game, making the old games fairly dead, online-play wise.

82 Dec 29, 2009 at 08:59 by EVIL-C

Wow, what on earth is with the attitudes of some of these PC elitists in this thread? Bashing all game consoles into the ground simply because it isn’t a computer, what the hell is wrong with you people?! To have such a norrowminded, ignorant view of what videogames in general can offer is too tragic for words.

I truly feel sorry for those of you who harbor this baseless hate.

83 Dec 29, 2009 at 09:46 by Jay

I was expecting GTA IV to make the list. Downloaded it the other day and it is soooo fun. I am thinking of buying it to play multiplay though lol.

84 Dec 29, 2009 at 11:36 by Dia

You’ll excuse me if “systematically corrected” makes me flinch after climategate.

85 Dec 29, 2009 at 12:20 by YoYo_LoCo

@Ace Hall
Yes lot’s of people bought this game. Console gamers!!! No one bought it for PC.

@75
If IW would go with #1 MW2′s sales would unlikely increase because people who pirate games don’t buy games.
If IW went with #2 when than great new title will come along people will still pirate it. And every company is money-faced. That’s how capitalist societies work. Don’t like it? Move to North Korea!!!

I bet all you people saying IW are greedy are just pathetic loosers jealous that some people have cool jobs that they love and that bring them lots of money.
Entertainment isn’t free! Would you work for free???

If you don’t like a product don’t buy it!!! Don’t steal it!!! That’s how capitalism works! Do you shop lift Armani clothes because they’re too expensive and you don’t think they’re worth what they cost? Pirating is no better than that!!!

86 Dec 29, 2009 at 12:30 by LeXxX

I would like to see some numbers for the PSP and the DS if there are any.

87 Dec 29, 2009 at 12:46 by loller

I like how so many of you people seem to be willfully killing your platform of choice. Keep downloading games in the millions and you eventually won’t have any left, companies just won’t bother making them. So keep it up :)

88 Dec 29, 2009 at 13:29 by antiloller

Dear post #88 , name “loller”.

I found your post very disappointing, there’s always a reason behind the large download of this game, the reason is simple. There’s no dedicated servers, modtools. And now they want us to BUY the maps? No thanks.

The firms that makes the games always goes in pluss (for large games that is), even “Modern Warfare 2″ got downloaded so much, it still sold more then your gonna earn in your entire life. Oh snap was that a personal attack? My bad.

Regards,
Your anti machine.

89 Dec 29, 2009 at 13:41 by Dave

Can you really blame people for downloading it with the price-tag? Not only was it the ‘most downloaded’ ‘most sales’ game of 2009, it also happened to be the ‘most expensive’ and ‘most overpriced’… This has probably already been said but thought id add my peice :o)

90 Dec 29, 2009 at 13:51 by Anonimous

@#89
Those are legit reasons NOT TO BUY A GAME, but they are NOT LEGIT REASONS TO ILLEGALY DOWNLOAD A GAME!

91 Dec 29, 2009 at 14:10 by torrent wiki

visit http://torrentwiki.tk/

92 Dec 29, 2009 at 14:13 by kevin

those numbers are bs, ive found more downloads for modern warfare 2 on xbox 360 on one site alone.

93 Dec 29, 2009 at 14:40 by Ace Hall

@ YoYo_LoCo, loller, and Anonimous

STFU and read my posts at #76 and #78, they made more money on this game than any in history. They are not about to go out of business or quit making games.

94 Dec 29, 2009 at 15:51 by dreamhunk

I would trust bit torret”s numbers they couldn’t perduce pirated console numbers last year. They don’t even have sony ‘s pirated numbers. By the way you don’t need modded chips to play games on consoles.

95 Dec 29, 2009 at 15:52 by dreamhunk

sorry

I would not trust bit torret”s numbers they couldn’t perduce pirated console numbers last year. They don’t even have sony ’s pirated numbers. By the way you don’t need modded chips to play games on consoles.

96 Dec 29, 2009 at 16:00 by dreamhunk

the nintendo dsi and wii gets way more pirated then pc gaming does

http://news.softpedia.com/news/1-Billion-Dollars-Worth-Pirated-DS-Games-Were-Seized-83135.shtml

http://www.psxextreme.com/ps3-news/1323.html

97 Dec 29, 2009 at 16:31 by dreamhunk

by the way I just want to add all the best features from call of duty seires came rom pc gamers on modders.

the game devs did not perduce jack!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o2NkIfUgjkc&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qMfTR8PBrsE

by the way I can perducce alot more links with more info on console pircay than this site can perduce.

last year video gamer asked this site to perduce console pircay numbers they could not.

so take their creability with a grain of salt!

98 Dec 29, 2009 at 16:37 by hogman

Notice not a single PS3 pirated game.

More developers need to take note and get on the PS3 bandwagon.

99 Dec 29, 2009 at 16:57 by dreamhunk

ps3 gets pirated by the way I can add alot more links to prove it

100 Dec 29, 2009 at 17:02 by Common Man

@20 – Spot On!

From the days of sharing disks of ‘War in Russia’, ‘Colonization’, ‘Dune 2′, ‘Warcraft’ and ‘Prehistorik 2′ in school – to today’s torrents I’ve proudly been sharing games with friends. It didn’t kill the gaming industry then and it won’t kill it now.

Even if it did – no problem. We’ll have Free Libre Open-Source Gaming instead (like Glest).

101 Dec 29, 2009 at 18:58 by Foo

@10
” Everyone who disagrees with downloading MW2, visit the ModernWarfail2 blog.

They screwed over the pc users, slashed dedicated servers and wanted everyone to buy maps from them only.
Exactly the fuckholes you DON’T want to give your money to.”

So don’t buy it if you don’t want to give them your money. But download it either. It’s not your “right” to play the game.

IW certainly did screw over the PC games community, thats why I didn’t buy it. But I didn’t download it either as when they see the number of downloads it just justifies to themselves that they did the right thing trying to control the online aspect. That or they will simply not bother with a PC version next time.

I have downloaded games before, but that’s a weak excuse for downloading games. Your simply to cheap to buy it. I know I used to be.

102 Dec 29, 2009 at 20:03 by UpyoursIW

What happens when you dont give the gamers deidcated servers!

103 Dec 29, 2009 at 21:43 by Hina Khan

If anyone need question the recent wave of legal action piracy and torrents, they only need to look at these numbers. 4.1 million. If anything, this shows how out of control piracy is. If torrents were out of the picture, the game would have probably sold close to 8 million copies, earning it a place among the best selling games of all time. Piracy limits the potential success of anything. How well can you stand out if if half of the copies of your work were not paid for and thus not recognized?

It astounds me that half the comments here are trying to justify theft by claiming that the game was bad. If this was true, then why did so many people want to play it, pirated or legally purchased? We don’t live in a world where custemors can arbitrarily redefine how a company wants their work distrobuted whenever they feel like it. Customers are important, but they aren’t the only ones that are important. Fair transactions consist of two parties : customers and content providers. This is something that pirates don’t and will never understand.

On another note, I think it’s interesting how this was one of the first convictions in a US court. Notice how quick and decisive the legal responce was. How long did it take a swedish court to convict the pirate bay.. half a year?
http://www.tophindisong.com

104 Dec 29, 2009 at 21:58 by Anonymous

@Hina Khan

Actually, the game would not have sold those extra 4.1 million copies because those people had no intention of buying the game in the first place. Had you read the other comments or kept up with news, you would have seen how outraged PC gamers were with IW and how those who did go out and purchase the game suffered from severe buyer’s remorse. They might not have even sold another 1 million copies.

The bottom line is if you make crappy games like MW2, people will refuse to buy them. Xbox faggots will buy anything with guns, buff dudes and breasts though, so nobody cares about them

105 Dec 29, 2009 at 22:15 by dreamhunk

also one more thing I would not trust the gaming media or some people in the gaming industry. why the gaming media and gaming industry is full of lairs

good exmaple here, they kind of work like this!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4_s3QLSvEkQ&feature=sub

they remind me of a nazi training camp!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-ozF4zndGbg

they don’t even give you the full facts.

I mean every year they say pc gaming is dying

what a joke!!!!

106 Dec 29, 2009 at 23:47 by MW2NOT4U

First of all, i don’t know why everyone is always screaming the pc gamers are pirates? as i recall, it was the 360 gamers that pirated the game 2 week before the game was released.

Also, the game isn’t good imo, it’s a 007 QUANTUM OF SOLACE ripoff with a little HALO2 mixed in.

This game is no-longer a COD game at all.

And don’t even get started on the pc version, it’s basically the 360 version. How lame.

A pc is another platform all together, it’s not a console, it is capable of much much more.

If pc gamers wanted the game for console they would have bought it for console, pc gamers game on pc for a reason.

All in all, IW bit the hand that fed them, and they won’t be getting the pc community back.

107 Dec 30, 2009 at 00:30 by PayingCustomer

Parasites!

108 Dec 30, 2009 at 00:33 by Brandon

You people like to say “We can’t justify a 4-hour game and a multiplayer mode with no dedicated servers”, then don’t BUY it or DOWNLOAD it. Simple. Plus, the reason why there is no dedicated servers could be the broke-down moronic pirates pirating these games. Ever thought about looking at THAT? Nah, thought so. I don’t think it’s fair that we people who are buying video games are contributing towards that next game to be made for you pirates to illegally download and enjoy with no money spent on your end. You guys are sick and pathetic and I hope you all get caught, because this has gone way to far. If the gaming industry tanks, it’s all your fault.

Get a Job. Go to college. Do something to get money, or better yet, wait until the price drops in which you can afford it. I mean, there is no excuse for you to be downloading any game out there. At all. You can justify, twist things around, all in all, it’s illegal and wrong. “Good things comes to those who wait”. This can be applied to the fact that I held off on getting Metroid Prime Trilogy, as it was the game I wanted most def, and since I did not have enough money for it, dropped down to $19.99 at Best Buy for a week. The day after I got it, it went back up to $50. Maybe life hates you and that’s why games you ‘justify’ won’t drop in price. Chumps.

109 Dec 30, 2009 at 00:59 by dreamhunk

the hate is only going to grow from here on in.

there is people that hate micro soft

there is people who hate epic games and certen game devs

I don’t think people realise how damage is going be done and how damage is going to be done

110 Dec 30, 2009 at 01:09 by Lorrie

@brandon

well said!

the greediness of piraters affects the devs and paying customers by making games more expensive because they need to be just like retail stores and factor in the bad debt of shoplifting.

111 Dec 30, 2009 at 02:58 by Yakushev

@108
“Plus, the reason why there is no dedicated servers could be the broke-down moronic pirates pirating these games.”

THANK GOD IWNET PREVENTED THE POTENTIAL DOWNLOAD OF 4 MILLION COPIES!

OH WAIT

And they are still sticking with IWfailnet.. god they are retarded

“If the gaming industry tanks, it’s all your fault.”
Did you notice they made $550 million on a dumbed down restricted steam forcing overpriced DLC game? jesus christ

112 Dec 30, 2009 at 05:05 by uprize

Wow those are some big numbers.

Firstly, for all those saying that PC gaming is dying, you are wrong. PC gaming is not ‘mainstream’ anymore and most people who game on a PC download their games directly from online retailers (such as steam for example). Digital copies of games are NOT included in any retails sales figures. That is why PC games don’t have high sales figures. 5% of sales for MW2 were for PC IN RETAIL STORES. This does not include steam and other sites who sell it online.

Secondly, I am one of the people who pirated this game. I do not pirate many games at all. The only reason I would pirate a game is to sell if I liked it first before I buy it. Since MW2 has no demo, plus there was a massive shitstorm how IW fucked over everyone with stupid IW-net, that was the reason why I pirated it. If it was good, I would have purchased. Simple as that.

I do not believe that everything should be free at all. I am happy to put my money to a product/company that deserves it. The whole way this MW2 scenario has unfolded shows me how much IW have changed over 2 years. MW1 was an amazing game and is being played online MORE than MW2. The reason for this? Dedicated servers, mods, and just damn fun to play. All we want is choice and freedom in what we play, where we play, how we play and WHO we play with.

And to the people saying that PC gaming is expensive – you are retarded. it can be expensive if you want the latest and greatest hardware every 3 months, but you can buy a gaming PC for around $800.00 that will play Crysis on High/Very High settings comfortably. You guys forget than consoles are a PC in a different box with a different OS. You are playing on OLD tech! PC gaming gives you the ability to tweak your graphics settings, controls and pretty much everything else. If some people like to game on a 28″ widescreen monitor with Dual SLI graphics card, who fucking cares, they want to see the game in DETAIL, not as some shitty resolution like console players watch on there ‘HD’ Tv’s (which by the way is less quality that 768×1024 PC resolution – which is terrible for this day and age)

Thats it for me. Good luck if you read all this.
/RANT

113 Dec 30, 2009 at 05:43 by nah in bmore

Damn and here I was thinking I dont download pirated games cuz they are too large…turns out I downloaded StreetFighter….and bought Prototype downloadable. I would’ve got Modern Warfare 2 but I’m lazy. 3 of 5 is bad.

also I bet nubmer 6 was Tropico 3…lmao

114 Dec 30, 2009 at 09:02 by o wowww

@108
“Plus, the reason why there is no dedicated servers could be the broke-down moronic pirates pirating these games.”

THANK GOD IWNET PREVENTED THE POTENTIAL DOWNLOAD OF 4 MILLION COPIES!

OH WAIT

And they are still sticking with IWfailnet.. god they are retarded

“If the gaming industry tanks, it’s all your fault.”
Did you notice they made $550 million on a

115 Dec 30, 2009 at 09:42 by Damn

If hing goes like this . Pc gamig will lose companes to develop games for it.

116 Dec 30, 2009 at 09:42 by Mr. Sadface

Downloading MW2 is a waste of bandwidth.

117 Dec 30, 2009 at 10:28 by kibar

thanks good game call of duty kibar

118 Dec 30, 2009 at 14:45 by Yakirev

@115
“If hing goes like this . Pc gamig will lose companes to develop games for it.”

Or you know, the developers actually have to make a game people are willing to pay for? No way in hell im paying money for a online cd-key to a steam forcing P2P multiplayer game.

119 Dec 30, 2009 at 14:46 by Anonymous

@108, Brandon

I mean, there is no excuse for you to be downloading any game out there. At all.

What about games that are no longer commercially available? How are people supposed to have access to those?

120 Dec 30, 2009 at 14:48 by hey

es tont ou kié

121 Dec 30, 2009 at 15:50 by Anonymous

And nothing of value was lost

122 Dec 30, 2009 at 16:55 by Anonymous

@16 ahahahahahahaha

123 Dec 30, 2009 at 17:08 by Citation Needed

I find it funny that after this story has been picked up by a bunch of major gaming news sites and after 120 some odd comments no one has even thought to question the validity of the story itself.

What are your specific sources? what are your testing methods? how did you arrive at those nice clean rounded numbers? what do you mean by “All the data is carefully checked” – for what? and what exactly does “possible inaccuracies are systematically corrected” mean? and it goes on…

This is all Statistics / Responsible Journalism 101. Articles likes these are grossly negligent in an area where there is already an over-abundance of misinformation and general FUD.

I took a survey today – 98.3% of the respondents think Ernesto’s articles have no factual basis, 83.7% believe he’s trying to generate traffic for his site, 16.3% would visit torrentfreak again. The data for this survey is collected by my crack investigative team from several top sources, including reports from people in universities and organizations with big long names. All the poll data is carefully checked and possible inaccuracies are systematically corrected.

I have no problems with a responsible argument / discussion about piracy, but -please-, more facts and less FUD.

124 Dec 30, 2009 at 19:38 by Jordan

All you people saying that “good” PC games are not pirated are plain WRONG! You suggest that COD4 was a good game but the PC piracy statistics show it was pirated more than it was purchased. Wake the F up and realize pirating games will kill the PC market.

125 Dec 30, 2009 at 19:43 by Anonymous

@7 Obvious fag is obvious.

126 Dec 30, 2009 at 20:32 by Ernesto

@123 ‘Citation Needed’

We scrape all public trackers throughout the year an collect info on all completed downloads.

The data has to be corrected because trackers sometimes go down or misreports (fake torrents).

We obviously round off the numbers.

If you need any further info feel free to send me an email.

127 Dec 30, 2009 at 21:39 by Yakushev

@124
“All you people saying that “good” PC games are not pirated are plain WRONG! You suggest that COD4 was a good game but the PC piracy statistics show it was pirated more than it was purchased. Wake the F up and realize pirating games will kill the PC market.”

I pirated CoD4 and bought it later.

Besides, people who pirate mostly only play LAN/singleplayer, only like 5% of those that downloaded CoD4 played on pirated servers (without PB so its cheat infested).

Honestly try to think of the torrents like demos instead of lost sales..

And didn’t CoD4 sell like 300.000 copies? AMG KILLING TEH INDUSTRYY! WE WILL NEVER HAVE A COD 5 OR COD 6 BECAUSE COD 4 GOT PIRATED TROUGH THE..

OH WAIT!

128 Dec 31, 2009 at 00:53 by gutsack

hotd and punch-out!! are by far the most frustrating bits here, they didn’t sell a tenth as many copies as those pirated. and people wonder why these games don’t sell on wii -_-

129 Dec 31, 2009 at 02:46 by Ad

Whatever, I downloaded New Super Mario Bros Wii to play it early yet bought it when it came out. I downloaded MW2 for PC (*&%^ you IW for no dedicated servers) yet bought it for the Xbox 360. Numbers are always inflated.

130 Dec 31, 2009 at 05:26 by tosser

@112: For the price of an entry level gaming machine, I can buy an xbox, HD 24″er and have enough change for a laptop. Then I can walk into a games shop and buy any game in a green case, take it home and play it. THAT is the appeal of consoles.

MW2 on XBL is fecking brilliant – not incredibly ground-breaking, but I just want to do some killin’ after work and it’s beautifully honed and totally addictive :)

But I wouldn’t wish the PC version on anyone – nobody I know is happy with any of it, and you can’t even trade it in at game exchange because of DRM… WTF?!

This sort of the thing is the reason I gave up on PC gaming. It’s a mug’s game, I’m not going back anytime soon :P

131 Dec 31, 2009 at 11:34 by Torrent Wiki

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132 Dec 31, 2009 at 17:00 by David Love

Yes, that’s my real name. I would like to stand by this statement – nobody who pirated the game did so because of any outside factors including the game makers decisions on how much value to put into the game. They would have stolen it regardless. You’re not fooling anyone. I can’t wait til they keep you fools from stealing content. I will read your crybaby posts about boycotting and laugh at your misery. You make some content and get it stolen and see how you feel. But you won’t because you’re a worthless lot that offers nothing to society. Then there are those who hack the games. It makes me happy they’re cancelling your accounts on XBox. I won’t play PC games online anymore because of the platform disparity and the hacks. It will be your own fault if PC games go the way of the dodo. If you feel differently than I do, you’re a fool. I’m right.

133 Dec 31, 2009 at 17:45 by BillyBob

The PC gaming industry will never die due to STEAM!!

Try and pirate that shit and you get banned. And since they are using secure servers that block people without a valid steam ID. STEAM is the single best thing. And i am yet to see a console game that could out pwn a pc game.

Consoles are for noobs. pc gaming FTW

134 Dec 31, 2009 at 18:05 by dreamhunk

there is alot of lairs in gaming Industry!!!!!

you only need to look at the meny articles about pc gaming dying every year.

sorry when pirate console games they are not found on torrets

yes the ps3 is also pirated and hacked

By the way that’s just the begining, keep pissing pc gamers off and your going know how smart people really are.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Q9GemNX9J6k

we can do alot more than boycott news travels very fast on the net!

I am sure name brands will be more than damaged

ever seen a hacked console before ?

picture a mob and army of hackers ripping apart them consoles all over the world.

let wars begin

I am sure there will be alot of people no longer respect publishers as the gaming industry takes a nice nose dive. as name barnds get trsahed

your going be paying the snot of your nose for console games. As sony amd micro soft will have pay more money to protect them consoles.

you can call success all you want, keep paicking a war with pc gamers.

135 Dec 31, 2009 at 18:28 by dreamhunk

maybe torret freaks should some reasch on pircay on consoles

http://www.1up.com/do/newsStory?cId=3138816

by the way i have alot more links

136 Dec 31, 2009 at 20:46 by anon

Who ever didn’t buy mw2 good for them and for those who said there were not gonna buy it & then download it “Morons” MW2=waste of bandwidth, electricity, storage, personal time.

IW screwed us PC Gamers, and then the pc gamers go n still download it, >.>

Foolishness. Ehh.

NSFS is Cool, Dirt2 is awesome.
MW2 Is A Big No No, when are the people going to learn?

137 Dec 31, 2009 at 22:02 by dreamhunk

more like sony and microsoft have lost billions on consoles so they are trying to force pc gamers into buying consoles.

it’s why the gaming media lies every year about pc gaming dying

if they lie about pc gaming they are going to lie about pircay numbers too on consoles

i bet pircay on nintendo dsi and wii are like 3 billion by now

he gaming industry does not care about gamers it’s all about the money and control.

that is why they are milking console gamers for all they are worth.

see if a company really cared about their consumers they would never ever lie to them.

If a company really cared they would go after the pirates not the pay consumer!

the gaming industry is a dictorship. all they want is money and control.

so how is the failure rate for them consoles?

how meny consoles does it take to play a microsoft zboz 360 these days.

miro soft and sony are just another kind of dictor

138 Dec 31, 2009 at 23:15 by dreamhunk

this how the gaming industry cares about it’s gamers

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/53403

yea they will say anything to destory pc gaming

139 Jan 01, 2010 at 01:27 by John m

Anyone consider that both Modern Warfare 2 and the Sims 3 was not even worth the 50-60$ because of all the stuff that was promised, hyped over and never introduced in the game (like you know, dedicated server for MW2?). So yeah, no shock to me that people pirated these games. Hell, MW2 was the most shortest FPS I’ve ever played yet.

Meanwhile, I’m purchasing games made by Russian and Eastern European companies that are making pretty cool PC games, fun to play and with great multiplayer support (Men of War, IL2, etc). Not to mention keeping their promises.

140 Jan 01, 2010 at 04:18 by mw2fan

come on people. IW are the ppl you wanna b paying money 2, i mean with all the effort they put into making such an ownage game….

141 Jan 01, 2010 at 04:44 by Anonymous

@130 / tosser

An entry level gaming Pc will cost <$1000.00.
If you think you can buy an xbox, a tv and a laptop for that price you are a moron.
Why do all you little n00b console kids think that PC's cost $3000+?
Yes, a top of te range PC can cost that, but you can buy 2008/early 2009 hardware which will run crysis maxed out for less than you pay for xbox and a tv.

Fucking knobs.

142 Jan 01, 2010 at 18:24 by dreamhunk

yea pc gaming dying every year lol

http://adrianwerner.wordpress.com/games-of-2010/

gaming industry full of lairs

I think torret freak should do some real reasch on pircay beforemaking claims!!!

143 Jan 01, 2010 at 20:44 by xyz

There is no “cause and effect” with piracy and game pricing. There is less piracy on the 360, but games are more expensive than on the PC. In fact, PC games are almost certainly cheaper as a way to DISCOURAGE the piracy on the PC.

PC games are not dying. Every year, even in the recession year of 2009, PC video game sales and revenue go up. As long as developers keep making money, we will have PC games.

People seem to forget that the PC has MUCH greater market penetration than any of the consoles and that the majority of gamers worldwide play on the PC. Don’t forget that there ARE no console MMOs to speak of, and won’t be anytime soon due to interface limitations.

144 Jan 01, 2010 at 20:47 by dreamhunk

here is your gaming media at it’s best

http://www.shacknews.com/onearticle.x/50134

145 Jan 02, 2010 at 10:57 by vishner

@TheGuyWhoSaidHeIsAgainstMusicPiracyButNotAgainstGamePiracy

You don’t know how much they spend to make a game rather than to make a music.

146 Jan 02, 2010 at 19:31 by Amit

This game waste of money without the multiplayer

147 Jan 05, 2010 at 11:40 by Ruskiy

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148 Jan 06, 2010 at 17:35 by dreamhunk

great link here

http://torrentz.com/search?q=PS3+GAME

149 Jan 07, 2010 at 14:16 by Jordan

Ok so im an xbox fan getting into pc gaming, like i know i cant get doom and css and some good games on 360. but each gaming console has its good and bad qualities, i use a 360 controller because i hate using keyboards. consoles will never kill pc gaming, sims wont be on 360 psp ps3 or wii. its just some of those games that will keep computer gaming to keep on trecking. and halo 3 will never be on pc, howver i do like halo 1 better on xbox/360.
my opinion on the matter, i hate paying outragous prices for 360 games and thats why i have come to pc gaming cos you can download the games you want, if you can find one that doesnt fill your pc with trojans and other nasty critters…

Jordan

150 Jan 08, 2010 at 11:08 by watcher3

Why, corporations not use this situation? 4 millions of people can use cut versions of games for free. And developers may use this games for advertising of many products.

151 Jan 08, 2010 at 11:34 by Expletive

There are too many extraneous variables and questions for these data to be conclusive. Is it piracy to simply download the game or do the people who download the game have to play it? Is it piracy if I lend or give the game to a friend? What about people that distribute DVD copies of the game? How do you deal with fake torrents? What about private trackers? What about people who download the game to demo it and then buy it, do they still count as pirates? How does the recent recession affect these figures?

In conclusion, it is impossible to reach the conclusion that MW2 is the most pirated game of 2009 as the actual figures may differ significantly.

Also, PC gaming will not die but it can be wounded. As long as substantial profits can be made from PC games then there will be PC games. Worst case scenario would be a lesser amount of PC games.

Arguably, piracy may be ethical from an utilitarian standpoint especially due to the recent recession.

IMO, this article needs more research, and the premature release of this article may do unnecessary harm to PC gaming.

152 Jan 08, 2010 at 14:53 by dreamhunk

more like game devs go bankuprt because of consoles the proof is right here!!!

http://www.cgw.com/Press-Center/Web-Exclusives/2010/The-Ups-and-Downs.aspx

they must really disperate to say anything about pc gaming. I mean micro soft and sony lost what is now billions on consoles

153 Jan 10, 2010 at 21:05 by Scotty

PC gaming isn’t expensive.

Two years ago I bought a £350 Dell Inspiron 530s (brand new) just for casual gaming (WoW, CoD4 etc)

It has 3gb RAM and dual 2.6Ghz processors

When MW2 specs were announced, I needed to upgrade my video card. An hour on ebay and I had bidded on a new, sealed Radeon HD4650 video card for £35 – which I won. To accomodate it though, I had to buy a new casing. I got a half decent one so that was £50.

If I got the normal 530 desktop I wouldn’t have had to upgrade case and would’ve saved myself £50 on the actual desktop and another £50 not having to buy a case.

I now run MW2 on 30-50fps constantly on maximum graphics for just £420 on a machine that can also run PC exclusive games, browse the net properly, word processing, storing thousands of songs etc etc etc

In contrast, my brother spent that on a PS3 shortly after launch. And another £450 on a decent HDTV (30″+++) just to play games or slowly browse the net.

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