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Crysis 2 the most pirated game of 2011
Posted: 03.01.2012 15:26 by JonahFalcon Comments: 7
According to site TorrentFreak, the PC version of Crysis 2 was the most pirated game of 2011, having been illegally downloaded 3.9M times. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Battlefield 3 followed with 3.6M and 3.5M downloads respectively.

 
Super Mario Galaxy 2 and Gears of War 3 were the most pirated console titles, downloaded 1.28M and 890K times respectively.

While the numbers seem large, according to estimates, piracy declined in 2011 over 2010.

Comments

By djole381 (SI Elite) on Jan 03, 2012
djole381
Crysis 2 is such a major disappointment of 2011 that it's not even worth pirating. I tried the leaked version with the intention of buying the original when it came out. When I finally bought Crysis 2, I thought there are going to be so many improvements. There's almost no difference between the two other than lack of game breaking bugs in the original. I was sooo disappointed with Crysis 2. I couldn't believe that after Crysis, Crytek would make such a trash of a game.
By Kres (SI Elite) on Jan 03, 2012
Kres
Didn't ended up buying it at all... just had no attraction to it.
By JonahFalcon (SI Elite) on Jan 03, 2012
JonahFalcon
Crysis 2 is really inexpensive on Origin now.
By djole381 (SI Elite) on Jan 03, 2012
djole381
I think you mean Crysis Jonah, not Crysis 2. I thinks that Crysis 2 is available only on Origin.
By herodotus (SI Herodotus) on Jan 03, 2012
herodotus
"C2" might be kind of cheap(ish) for the USA, but for me to purchase it from Origin it's USD $39.99, not cheap at all when I've seen it for $10 from some retail stores. Even "Crysis" is $7.50 on Sale pricing ($15 normally).
I would be very interested in seeing a breakdown of the zones where the ISP's of the downloaders are from. Is regionalisation causing a rise in Piracy is the question Publishers should be asking. While not condoning the act, the Publishers have themselves to blame when they price their games upwards of $100 for DD.
By SiyaenSokol (SI Elite) on Jan 05, 2012
SiyaenSokol
Luckily for me, a buddy of mine owed me 200ZAR, so because he couldn't give it to me in cash, he instead gave me his Crysis 2 copy.

I must admit however, the game was very disappointing. I was hoping for so much better, but oh well, you can't win them all.
By SirRoderick (SI Elite) on Jan 06, 2012
SirRoderick
Never bought it, Crysis 1 was dissapointing to me. Very linear, fairly dull and the sudden onset of "NOW ALIENS!" just sucked the joy out of it. I can imagine a lot of people just pirating it.

Althoug I do question how they get their numbers...