The biggest threat to the gaming industry today is piracy. Each year developers, publishers and console manufacturers alike commit themselves to combating cyber pirates through the innovation of new and creative security methods.
Nonetheless piracy continues unabated, perhaps due to the sheer number of tech savvy gamers consistently working towards cracking any security encryptions that may come their way. As a result manufacturers are forced to adopt increasingly harsh methods for tackling the problem. Microsoft for example is currently on a banning streak whereby users with modified consoles are permanently banned from the Xbox Live community.
With this in mind we list the ten most pirated games in November, according to popular torrent sharing portal The Pirate Bay.
- 1) Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2
- 2) Dragon Age: Origins
- 3) Borderlands
- 4) Star Wars: The Force Unleashed (Sith edition)
- 5) Need for Speed: SHIFT
- 6) Football Manager 2010
- 7) Grand Theft Auto IV
- 8) Batman Arkham Asylum
- 9) Manhunt 2
- 10) Resident Evil 5
Unsurprisingly perhaps, all of these games were PC based. Console versions of Call of Duty Modern Warfare 2 and several handheld based titles appeared lower on the list.
It also comes as no surprise that the most pirated games are recent AAA releases. Despite this trend Grand Theft Auto IV, which was released in 2008 made this list.
Fortunately for local distributors, downloading large torrents is simply not financially viable for most gamers due to South Africa’s high bandwidth tariffs. Even using SA’s cheapest international bandwidth supplied by Afrihost, it would cost over R300 to download Modern Warfare 2.
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