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Modern Warfare 2 Most Pirated Game of 2009
by Ernesto

As 2009 is slowly moving toward its end, we follow up our most pirated movies chart by taking a look at the most pirated games of the year. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 is the absolute winner on the PC and Xbox 360, while New Super Mario Bros. scoops the title of most pirated Wii game of 2009.

codmw2Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 broke records this year as the biggest ever entertainment launch in history. With 4.7 million units sold in the US and UK during the first 24 hours, it pulled in revenues totaling $310 million.

In five days the game’s worldwide sales climbed to $550 million, crushing previous record holders Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince (only $394m) and The Dark Knight (just $203.8m).

“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,” Activision CEO Bobby Kotick said commenting on the game’s success. This is, of course, reflected in the number of pirated copies being traded on BitTorrent.

With 4.1 million unauthorized downloads of the PC version alone, the game more than doubles the achievement of last year’s ‘winner‘ Spore. Modern Warfare 2 leads both the PC and Xbox 360 lists, by a landslide.

The overall trend across all platforms is that, unlike last year, all of the games are 2009 releases. What makes Modern Warfare 2’s chart-topping even more impressive is that this has been achieved after just two months of availability. We further see that the figures for the most downloaded titles have more than doubled compared to last year, equaling the growth in uTorrent users.

PC games are by far the most downloaded titles, with on average more than three times the number of downloads compared to Xbox 360 and Wii releases. As expected, Mario titles are in high demand on the Wii.

The data for these lists is collected by TorrentFreak from several sources, including reports from all public BitTorrent trackers. All the data is carefully checked and possible inaccuracies are systematically corrected.

There is absolutely no reason for anyone involved in the process of producing MW2 to bitch. You got your money's worth and then some!

technoe wrote:There is absolutely no reason for anyone involved in the process of producing MW2 to bitch. You got your money's worth and then some!

There's an absolute reason for them to bitch, Technoe. Bobby Kotick their CEO only made $15,000,000 last year. And the $60 you and I, and everyone else could have spent, would have help put fuel in his Azimut 116 Luxury Yacht that now he's forced to rent out for $175,000 a week because of all of us who D/L'ed the game. Even though I'm currently laid off like a lot of people out there, I feel horribly guilty now, I couldn't give him more of my $, so he could make $15,000,060.

co30op wrote:

technoe wrote:I feel horribly guilty now, I couldn't give him more of my $, so he could make $15,000,060.

HAHA I don't!!! If they weren't greedy, and charged so much maybe people would buy them instead of pirating the games!

feel guilty ha lol only thing i feel is numbness i got into this cause i dont care i dont need the money and i still do it did i make 16000000 no but im not hurtn either im jus pissd that i cant rip ps3 yetttttt

Well I actually put several gallons in his tank, with a Prestige edition MW2 and a regular edition MW2. Sorry.