A report released recently TorrentFreak revealed that Crysis 2 is the title of the most pirated game of the year 2011 by as much as 3.9 million copies downloaded when only released in March. It is quite ironic considering the previous Crysis developer issued a statement that the reason they consider not only survive on a single platform is the difficulty to restrain piracy.
In a report issued December 30, 2011, TorrentFreak get actual numbers downloading it from various provider site links download using BitTorrent or BitTorrent tracking services that are open. BitTorrent is often misused to distribute files either pirated games and movies Bluray quality due to the way it works allows large files can be obtained faster than downloading directly.
From the trend of piracy, it is known that the video game platform is the most pirated PC followed by the Nintendo Wii, then Xbox 360. Besides Crysis 2, perhaps a title that makes the other record is Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 because it sucked 3.65 million times since its release in November 2011 or two months ahead of the end of the year.
For other platforms, Super Mario Galaxy 2 Wii games occupy the most hijacked by 1.28 million times while the Xbox 360 downloads is dominated by Gears of War 3 with 890,000 times the downloads.
Unfortunately, TorrentFreak does not include data such as video games for the Playstation 3 platforms and portable consoles such as PlayStation Portable or NDS. In the report, they reasoned that there are not too significant, so decided to not include them.
Data download PC Game on BitTorrent in 2011 (as at 30 December 2011)
1. Crysis 2 (downloaded 3.92 million times) (released March 2011)
2. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (3.65 million) (November 2011)
3. Battlefield 3 (3.51 million) (October 2011)
4. FIFA 12 (3.39 million) (September 2011)
5. Portal 2 (3.24 million) (April 2011)
The data in the BitTorrent download of Wii Game in 2011 (as at 30 December 2011)
1. Super Mario Galaxy 2 (1.28 million) (May 2010)
2. Mario Sports Mix (1.09 million) (February 2011)
3. Xenoblade Chronicles (950 000) (August 2011 EU)
4. Lego Pirates of the Caribbean (870 000) (May 2011)
5. FIFA 12 (860 000) (September 2011)
Data download XBox Game on BitTorrent in 2011 (as at 30 December 2011)
1. Gears of War 3 (890 000) (September 2011)
2. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 (830 000) (November 2011)
3. Battlefield 3 (760 000) (October 2011)
4. Forza Motorsport 4 (720 000) (October 2011)
5. Kinect Sports: Season Two (690 000) (October 2011)
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