{"id":64633,"date":"2014-05-20T13:00:22","date_gmt":"2014-05-20T11:00:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=64633"},"modified":"2014-05-20T13:28:00","modified_gmt":"2014-05-20T11:28:00","slug":"the-most-pirated-pc-games-at-the-moment","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/64633-the-most-pirated-pc-games-at-the-moment","title":{"rendered":"The most pirated PC games at the moment"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>It&#8217;s time again for our monthly roundup of the most pirated PC games of the\u00a0now.<\/p>\n<p>As always, we want to state that piracy through torrent sites is never a good thing, but what the illegal sharing of games does is let us know is which titles are desired most by the consumer (who has no desire to pay for something that was tirelessly worked on by teams of dedicated developers).<\/p>\n<p>We visited some of the top torrent sites \u2013 don\u2019t try this at work \u2013 to find out which PC games are being seeded most. Below is a top 10 list from each site.\u00a0Making an appearance high up on this month&#8217;s lists are Dark Souls 2, Minecraft, and Goat Simulator.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">TorLock<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Dark Souls 2<\/li>\n<li>Outlast: Whistleblower<\/li>\n<li>Child of Light<\/li>\n<li>Grand Theft Auto 4<\/li>\n<li>The Walking Dead: Season 2<\/li>\n<li>Call of Duty: Ghosts<\/li>\n<li>Trials Fusion<\/li>\n<li>Age of Mythology<\/li>\n<li>Daylight<\/li>\n<li>Bound by Flame<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_62486\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Dark-Souls-2-screenshot-2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62486\" class=\"size-large wp-image-62486\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Dark-Souls-2-screenshot-2-600x337.jpg\" alt=\"Dark Souls 2\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Dark-Souls-2-screenshot-2-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Dark-Souls-2-screenshot-2-267x150.jpg 267w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Dark-Souls-2-screenshot-2-625x350.jpg 625w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/Dark-Souls-2-screenshot-2.jpg 1280w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-62486\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Dark Souls 2<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">KickassTorrents<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Goat Simulator<\/li>\n<li>Minecraft<\/li>\n<li>Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas<\/li>\n<li>South Park: The Stick of Truth<\/li>\n<li>The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim<\/li>\n<li>Subway Surfers<\/li>\n<li>Euro Truck Simulator<\/li>\n<li>Dark Souls 2<\/li>\n<li>Grand Theft Auto 4<\/li>\n<li>The Sims 3<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_63385\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/goat-simulator.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-63385\" class=\"wp-image-63385 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/goat-simulator-600x337.jpg\" alt=\"Goat Simulator\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/goat-simulator-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/goat-simulator-267x150.jpg 267w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/goat-simulator-625x350.jpg 625w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/04\/goat-simulator.jpg 1920w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-63385\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Goat Simulator<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">The Pirate Bay<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Minecraft<\/li>\n<li>Goat Simulator<\/li>\n<li>Dynasty Warriors 8<\/li>\n<li>Call of Duty: Ghosts<\/li>\n<li>The Sims 3<\/li>\n<li>Dark Souls 2<\/li>\n<li>The Elder Scrolls 5: Skyrim<\/li>\n<li>The Amazing Spider-Man 2<\/li>\n<li>Battlefield 4<\/li>\n<li>NBA 2K14<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_40791\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/minecraft-xbla-skin-dlc-screenshot-01.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-40791\" class=\"wp-image-40791\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/minecraft-xbla-skin-dlc-screenshot-01.jpg\" alt=\"Minecraft\" width=\"600\" height=\"338\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/minecraft-xbla-skin-dlc-screenshot-01.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/minecraft-xbla-skin-dlc-screenshot-01-300x168.jpg 300w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/minecraft-xbla-skin-dlc-screenshot-01-80x45.jpg 80w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/minecraft-xbla-skin-dlc-screenshot-01-100x56.jpg 100w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/minecraft-xbla-skin-dlc-screenshot-01-150x84.jpg 150w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/minecraft-xbla-skin-dlc-screenshot-01-170x96.jpg 170w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/minecraft-xbla-skin-dlc-screenshot-01-297x167.jpg 297w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/minecraft-xbla-skin-dlc-screenshot-01-530x298.jpg 530w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/minecraft-xbla-skin-dlc-screenshot-01-625x351.jpg 625w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2012\/07\/minecraft-xbla-skin-dlc-screenshot-01-250x140.jpg 250w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-40791\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Minecraft<\/p><\/div>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">Torrentz<\/h3>\n<ul>\n<li>Minecraft<\/li>\n<li>Subway Surfers<\/li>\n<li>Goat Simulator<\/li>\n<li>Dynasty Warriors 8<\/li>\n<li>South Park: The Stick of Truth<\/li>\n<li>Fifa 14<\/li>\n<li>Call of Duty: Ghosts<\/li>\n<li>Dark Souls 2<\/li>\n<li>Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas<\/li>\n<li>The Amazing Spider-Man 2<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<div id=\"attachment_62320\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption alignnone\"><a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/South-Park-The-Stick-of-Truth-screenshot-8.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-62320\" class=\"wp-image-62320 size-large\" src=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/South-Park-The-Stick-of-Truth-screenshot-8-600x337.jpg\" alt=\"South Park: The Stick of Truth\" width=\"600\" height=\"337\" srcset=\"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/South-Park-The-Stick-of-Truth-screenshot-8-600x337.jpg 600w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/South-Park-The-Stick-of-Truth-screenshot-8-267x150.jpg 267w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/South-Park-The-Stick-of-Truth-screenshot-8-625x350.jpg 625w, https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/03\/South-Park-The-Stick-of-Truth-screenshot-8.jpg 1000w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-62320\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">South Park: The Stick of Truth<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Piracy has always been a massive bugbear for many in the gaming industry \u2013 particularly with PC gaming \u2013 with large developers and publishing houses lamenting lost revenue and investment in the industry due to pirates. <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/43426-pc-piracy-rate-is-over-90-claims-ubisoft.html\">Ubisoft claims that its titles face a 90% piracy rate<\/a>.\u00a0Valve says<a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/27437-gabe-newell-piracy-is-a-non-issue-for-valve.html\"> piracy is a service issue<\/a>, and thanks to Steam, it is a non-issue for the company.<\/p>\n<p>Also, with all the great <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/features\/64453-digital-game-download-deals-this-weekend.html\">digital download deals on offer<\/a>, we really don&#8217;t see the need to pirate games.<\/p>\n<p>It is time to repent readers. Cleanse your souls by confessing your piracy sins (which game you torrented and why) in the comments and forum.<\/p>\n<h3 class=\"my-4\">More gaming news<\/h3>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/64569-dota-2-the-international-prize-pool-reaches-r53500590.html\">Dota 2 The International prize pool reaches R53,500,590<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/64533-toxic-bunny-leads-indie-royale-bundle.html\">Toxic Bunny leads Indie Royale bundle<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"color: #6e6e6e;\"><strong><a style=\"color: #0066cb;\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/64517-ubisoft-posts-r937-million-loss.html\">Ubisoft posts R937 million loss<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Take a look at which games are being seeded and leeched the most in the world of torrents<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":214,"featured_media":64637,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[21,12302,101,2440,967,3229,12303],"class_list":["post-64633","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-features","tag-headline","tag-kickasstorrents","tag-piracy","tag-the-pirate-bay","tag-torlock","tag-torrents","tag-torrentz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64633","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/214"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=64633"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64633\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":64685,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/64633\/revisions\/64685"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/64637"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=64633"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=64633"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=64633"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}