Black ops takes the crown for most pirated game of 2010

[yundex]

The numbers seem a little screwy that 4.2 million people really downloaded the game. I mean why? Sure there is single player and lan, but considering you can't (at least in my knowledge) get to the multiplayer, then what is the point of downloading the game?

Also, because it has to be said over and over in each piracy thread, a download does not mean it is a lost sale.

Well, I kinda have to disagree with you. The game is valued at $60 and someone got it for free. Which means, the money it cost to make each of those copies was not payed back.

Maybe its not a lost sale, but it sure is a waste of money.

Wait...what?
Hold the phone.
What do you mean the cost to make each of the copies was not paid back? There were no physical copies made for these people. It's not like Activision made 4.2 million copies of the game, packed it up, and somewhere along the shipping lines people stole these copies off the trucks. This is an illegal copy of the game. Activision takes no direct loss of money.

And like I said, whoever (to my knowledge) is downloading this game isn't necessarily playing it online, so it's not like they are getting the full game's worth.
Also just because someone pirates a game does not mean that they would otherwise have bought the game if said illegal copy was not available. Thus it a pirated copy is not directly a lost sale of the game.

I understand your way of thinking, and I agree with you on the not-costing-money-to-make thing. But, I also see your point of thinking in that people wouldn't have bought it if they didn't pirate it. And I do disagree.

The game was valued at $60 and some people got it for free. Even if it did not cost money to create, it still had the potentiol to make $252 million. And I count that as a lost sale because no money was made off of those 4.2 million copies.

I don't get it, if I pirate every game ever released, does that mean i'd buy everything if piracy wasn't possible? They're all "lost sales" too.

I'm saying that those copies had the potentiol to make $252 million becuase you got the game for free. If I got a cookie recipe from a bakery and made the cookies myself and gave them out for free, sure the bakery wouldn't be losing any money, but they would be losing business.

Look, I don't want to start a piracy arguement right now. Let's just drop it and we can all have our own opinions.

I'm not arguing pro or anti piracy, i'm just confused. Yea there are many lost sales, but there is never a potential sale for every copy(you say there is but analogies don't prove this), unless each legit copy gives you one free bj.

But if you don't want to argue over this, that's fine since I want to sleep now.

 

[hawkeye52]

the way i see it the better a multiplayer focused game is (there is no way around it cod is now focused on the multiplayer) the less pirated copies it should have since people who want to go on official servers to play the game in multiplayer to its fullest hack free extent.

when people pirate a multiplayer game it means that they dont believe that the full multiplayer is really going to be worth it or that they just want to play the single player(single player games are a different story altogether which i won't go into now) and if people pirate the game for the single player because they don't want to play the multiplayer then it either means that the multiplayer is crap or the single player is good (of which i believe that the multiplayer in cod is crap these days and the single player is crap as well).

i mean look at WoW. its a game with the worlds largest fanbase to date with the most active subscribers over any other game. However the amount of people who have pirated this game and gone on private servers is tiny compared to the active player base. This obviously means that the people who play and pay for it must enjoy it enough to actually invest money into it every month just so they can play the game on official servers and thus must mean that the game is good. (personally i dont understand the actual thing of WoW it just seems so repetative and boring to me. mind you i have never been one for excessive fetch quests and grinds)

 

[Deathman101]

Black Ops most pirated game of the year? Really? Who would of thought.

You know you can also slice bread with a knife?