Thread: 2011 most pirated games (from torrent freak)

Now I know that this doesn't take into consideration filehosting sites, but it's still an interesting read, especially the bit about PS3 games having such a small number of downloads that the numbers aren't even worth mentioning. Sony will be happy about that.


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Torrent Freak has released its annual report, revealing the most pirated games of last year.

Crysis 2 clinches the dubious honour for the most pilfered PC game of 2011, with an estimated 3.92 million illegal downloads.

An advance copy of the game was leaked onto the Internet back in February, a month ahead of its official release. But instead of snapping up this incomplete version, the majority of downloads came once the full retail version had been released. The usual suspects - Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3, Battlefield 3, and FIFA 12 - also rank highly on PC.

On Xbox 360 the most popular game to download using torrents was the platform exclusive Gears of War 3, with around 890,000 downloads. Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 and Battlefield 3 appear at number 2 and 3, with other Xbox exclusives - Forza 4 and Kinect Sports: Season Two - rounding off the top 5.

Meanwhile, Super Mario Galaxy 2 remained the most pirated Wii game for the second year running.

Tellingly, Xenoblade Chronicles - arguably the definitive JRPG of this generation - is the third most pirated title for Nintendo's console with almost a million downloads. In August a celebrated regionalised version of the game was released in Europe, but it's not coming to the US until later this year, which possibly explains the high instance of piracy. It seems for many - almost 950,000 - the desire to play the game exceeded quibbles about legality. Of course, many of those who downloaded the game would probably not have shelled out for a retail copy, but we can reasonably infer that a lot of those downloads might have been sales if things had been different.

It can only be hoped that Nintendo of America sees these figures and doesn't let the same thing happen with The Last Story, another Japanese RPG that is not being released in the US despite coming out in Europe in just a few weeks' time.

Piracy rates are much lower on other formats, including PlayStation 3 thanks to its famously draconian security, so no list was compiled for that platform.

(Also, quite fittingly, Lego Pirates of the Caribbean was the fourth most snatched title on Wii.)

Source - IGN.COM

And here is the complete list on Torrent Freak if anyone is interested 2011_MOST_PIRATED_GAMES

Originally Posted by FreqEteQ

Piracy rates are much lower on other formats, including PlayStation 3 thanks to its famously draconian security, so no list was compiled for that platform.

We don't use torrent much, but I don't think they know.

Originally Posted by FreqEteQ

bla bla bla Piracy rates are much lower on other formats, including PlayStation 3 bla bla bla, so no list was compiled bla bla bla. [/URL]

I guess that's why most of our sceners act like "discarded filler".
Also: Top 3 Xbox games are shooters. Do the math.

Haha, Modern warfare 3 shouldn't even be pirated. It'd be a waste of harddrive space.

Originally Posted by saros32

We don't use torrent much, but I don't think they know.

this only means that we are best pirates in whole archipelago

Originally Posted by saros32

We don't use torrent much, but I don't think they know.

so does 360ISO, so what? 360 games still made the list, but PS3 didn't, that's all that it's saying.

Also the numbers are lower because there is a smaller number of PS3 owners with the ability to play backups than there is 360 owners.
And also the size of the games comes into consideration. I choose 360 over PS3 most of the time because the rips are usually smaller and take up less space on my hdd.


Being a fanboy is great, and supporting the scene is fantastic, but sometimes use just use a wee bit of logic when you look at things. PS3 users on 3.6+ OFW can't play downloaded rips, ANYONE on PC or 360 can, that is the difference, nothing else.

I think the real reason is because the only ps3 games downloadable/working (aside from the few cracked and psn) are almost a year old++. Have u tried to find a torrent for one of these old backups? say saints row 2. There are no seeds. Partly because of the large file sizes, and also the fact that most ppl have all the 3.55 games they want already(no leechers, eventually u stop seeding n free up some space). The only time i redownloaded any old releases was when my hdd crashed. Therefore, you almost have no choice but to use storage sites. Just my 2 cents...

+rep to OP interesting. And yes, let Sony think they have won so they back off some lol