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Crysis 2 Most Pirated Game of 2011
MojoKid writes "When an advance copy of Crysis 2 leaked to the Internet a full month before the game's scheduled release, Crytek and Electronic Arts (EA) were understandably miffed and, as it turns out, justified in their fears of mass piracy. Crysis 2 was illegally download on the PC platform 3,920,000 times, 'beating out' Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 with 3,650,000 illegal downloads. Numbers like these don't bode well for PC gamers and will only serve to encourage even more draconian DRM measures than we've seen in the past."
Luckily, nobody who pirated Crysis 2 had a system powerful enough to run it, so actually the game wasn't ever successfully pirated.
== Jez ==
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Game? I thought Crysis was an overpriced graphics card benchmark ;).
No surprise if most people download it and don't actually buy it. They might only "play" it for 5-20 minutes[1].
[1] On a vaguely related note some people might spend more time trying to quit Assassin's Creed "properly" than playing it: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gwOvuY0UbFM
You don't steal cars to own, so affordability is irrelevant. You steal cars for parts. Or for joyriding.
How dare you tell me WHY I steal cars! For your information, I steal them to give their owners a reason to finally buy an electric or hybrid.