January 16th, 2008

Are PC Gamers Pirates?

Apparently so - well too many of them are - as the developers of Call of Duty 4 have noticed: a lot of gamers on the multiplayer servers and most of them using pirated cd-keys, no-cd patches and the like - the amount of people using such methots has reached too high numbers and if such gamers don't start buying the original discs, we might be running out of new games. A developers of Call of Duty 4 has created a post entitled "They Wonder Why People Don't Make PC Games Any More":

"On another PC related note, we pulled some disturbing numbers this past week about the amount of PC players currently playing Multiplayer (which was fantastic). What wasn't fantastic was the percentage of those numbers who were playing on stolen copies of the game on stolen / cracked CD keys of pirated copies (and that was only people playing online). Not sure if I can share the exact numbers or percentage of PC players with you, but I'll check and see; if I can I'll update with them. As the amount of people who pirate PC games is astounding. It blows me away at the amount of people willing to steal games (or anything) simply because it's not physical or it's on the safety of the internet to do."