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An out of date, incomplete build of Crysis 2 hit torrent sites a good month before its release in March 2011, but the site reports pirating of Crytek’s sequel significantly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
#1
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
#2
Talkar
03/01/12, 12:20 am
@1
It isn’t as bad as most people said, but it wasn’t great either x)
#3
G1GAHURTZ
03/01/12, 3:20 am
So EA finally managed to beat CoD then!
LOL!
#4
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.
#5
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
#6
xino
03/01/12, 9:31 am
Crysis 2 most pirated?
on what platform?
xbox 360 or pc?
#7
Da Man
03/01/12, 3:22 pm
It’s all that soviet-latvian patient and his butthurted no speaky english friends.
#8
DSB
03/01/12, 3:41 pm
See? All that obnoxious bragging paid off!
Number one, yiiir!
#9
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