With 2010 this, that, and the other thing lists being all the rage these days, BitTorrent news site TorrentFreak has published the tragically inevitable 2010 List of Shame – the year’s most pirated games.
Altogether, these numbers add up to 28,571,000 pirated games – and these are only BitTorrent’s stats. If there’s anybody out there who’d like to claim that piracy isn’t a real problem for game developers and publishers, kindly make yourself known so everybody else can throw sharp rocks at you. I bet you pirated the Humble Indie Bundle too.
I mean, honestly – almost four million pirated copies of Battlefield: Bad Company 2? I get that – ten years ago everybody hated EA because somebody on IRC told them to; but the game was reasonably priced, packed loads of free stuff, scored a Metacritic average of 87, and is arguably the best multiplayer FPS title this year. Four million people SUCK!
Here are the complete lists, along with a slow clap:
PC games
1 Call of Duty: Black Ops – 4,270,000
2 Battlefield: Bad Company 2 – 3,960,000
3 Mafia 2 – 3,240,000
4 Mass Effect 2 – 3,240,000
5 Starcraft II – 3,120,000
Wii games
1 Super Mario Galaxy 2 – 1,470,000
2 Wii Party – 1,220,000
3 Donkey Kong Country Returns – 920,000
4 Kirby’s Epic Yarn – 880,000
5 Red Steel 2 – 850,000
Xbox 360 games
1 Dante’s Inferno – 1,280,000
2 Alan Wake – 1,141,000
3 Red Dead Redemption – 1,060,000
4 Halo Reach – 990,000
5 Call of Duty: Black Ops – 930, 000
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