Tue, Jan 03, 2012 | 06:45 GMT

Report – Crysis 2 tops 2011 piracy chart at 4m downloads

Here’s an award Crytek and EA are probably less than happy about.

In its annual report, TorrentFreak noted users downloaded a pirated version of Crysis 2 over 4 million times during 2011.

An out of date, incomplete build of Crysis 2 hit torrent sites a good month before its release in March 2011, but the site reports pirating of Crytek’s sequel significantly increased once the retail version became available.

Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 took second place with 3,650,000 downloads, with Battlefield 3 in third at 3,510,000.

Other interesting snippets from the report include Gears of War 3 as the top pirated Xbox 360 title – another leak victim – with 890,000 downloads, and the huge discrepancy between platforms; the PlayStation 3 didn’t make it onto any of the top ten lists, despite its root key leak early in the year.

Thanks, gamesradar.

10 comments

AHA-Lambda
02/01/12, 11:36 pm

surprised mw3 wasn’t top =/

angry PC gamers that didn’t want to support crytek for the perceived dumbing down of the series but nevertheless wanted to play it then?

I must admit personally I bought it as I got a good deal on it but I wish I had just rented it, such a forgettable game. This, LA Noire and Battlefield 3 definitely burned me this year in terms of purchases

Talkar
03/01/12, 12:20 am

@1
It isn’t as bad as most people said, but it wasn’t great either x)

G1GAHURTZ
03/01/12, 3:20 am

So EA finally managed to beat CoD then!

LOL!

LOLshock94
03/01/12, 3:29 am

im guessing alot of people downloaded the leaked one to see if there pc can handle it, i know i did.

K-V-C
03/01/12, 8:52 am

on my psn account around 40 or more of my friends on it had crysis 2 and i spoke to every one of them to see if they liked it all of them said the multiplayer was really bad but single player was good lol

xino
03/01/12, 9:31 am

Crysis 2 most pirated?
on what platform?
xbox 360 or pc?

Da Man
03/01/12, 3:22 pm

It’s all that soviet-latvian patient and his butthurted no speaky english friends.

DSB
03/01/12, 3:41 pm

See? All that obnoxious bragging paid off!

Number one, yiiir!

Texamon
03/01/12, 6:48 pm

I think the main reason why this happened is simply due to the fact that a lot of people see Crysis as the “game” that will test your system, like benchmarking software. And to see if the leak was real to check out spoilers hehe

#10

Talkar
04/01/12, 12:10 am

On the NZB front it is a different picture. I’ve only just checked a few sites to get a general sense of what is what, but the top 10 list for most downloaded PC games there seems to be:

1: The Elder Scrolls V Skyrim
2: Dead Island
3: Portal 2
4: The Witcher 2: Assassins of Kings
5: Rage
6: Battlefield 3
7: Deus Ex Human Revolution
8: Crysis 2
9: Dirt 3
10:Homefront