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Originally Posted by Bilge_Rat
my figures are quoted a bit farther up from several well known sites which all say the same thing. You can also do your own Google search and find several more articles that all say the same thing about CoD:MW2.
If you have any figures to back up your claims, post them and we will be glad to verify your backup. Otherwise, all I see is a lot of hot air.
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Kotaku is hardly a reliable source, especially as they base their figures on TorrentFreak, which then bases its figures on Bittorrent etc. The figures from Bittorrent include partial downloads as well, fake torrents
Even so you keep going back to MW2 a game which had a lot of issues regarding it's multiplayer content, and THIS is what has been hurting PC sales rather than piracy. Funny how you take some dubious figures and take them out of context.
Finally there is no proven correlation between piracy and sales figures. As I've said, The Witcher has sold over a million copies and was heavily pirated, which for a less well known product should have been far more damaging than your supposed figures for MW2. Funny that Spore, sold many many copies despite being pirated mercilessly according to the same source, as was Fallout 3, as was Dragon Age.
Could it be that poor PC sales were due to the lack of dedicated servers and no moddability for MW2 which meant that people were reluctant to pay top dollar for a 4 hour long game just as Nisgeis has said? It would be worth following that up.
I see your figures as ambiguous, especially when you compare the amount of piracy versus games sold of other titles.
Maybe I was too dismissive of piracy, but the weird figures one sees when comparing different titles makes me skeptical about it being a major cause of MW2 supposedly lackluster PC sales.
For me piracy is just an excuse for making shoddy games. Companies now justify lack of manuals, supplementary materials, QA by blaming it all on pirates. That's a crock and as a sim player like you obviously are, you should be treating that with the contempt it deserves knowing that sims were being abandoned long before the current 'piracy' trend. It's all about profit maximization and companies justify all their actions by saying 'were it not for pirates' we'd do this or that.