Pirates Making Booty Of Call Of Duty 4
The Infinity Ward devs have posted an update on the unfortunate pirating of of the PC version of their #1 top-selling war machine, Call of Duty 4. The news unfortunately steals the thunder of the announcement of Mod Tools for the game, and comes across as a totally justified bit of bad news. I'd be disappointed too, if I'd poured my blood and sweat into a game:
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.
What can you say other than "buy the damn game"? As a PC gamer, this breaks my heart a little.
Pirates Plunder Call of Duty 4 [VE3D]
tiny dancer
Posted to Hot Stuff, Video Games on 15 January 2008
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Yeah...people really can be pricks. I got into a huge argument with a pirate a few weeks ago about it...his attitude was so horrible, he thinks the world owes him everything, and so he takes what he can...
Who would be dumb enough to pirate a game and then go online with it? I assume this announcement was a warning shot indicating they're about to start banhammering.
I can't be the only one who read this headline as "Pirates Make Booty Call of Duty."
...Can I?
They're not pirates, they're 12-15 year olds who probably found out how to do this and that, and failed to realize a key issue: if you pirate, don't go online with it.
And probably haven't pirated EA game yet.
@Freezair Oh and your not the only one ;)
People *did* buy the damn game.
CoD4 was one of the top selling games this christmas season.
High sales *and* a High rate of pirating? Kind of weakens the arguement that pirating lowers the sales?
Let me first say that I purchased CoD4 on Steam and love it. With that out of the way...
I can't believe the stuff posted here by the anti-pirate people. It isn't about theft, it isn't about being owed anything, it is about wanting. I take what I want when I can because I don't share in the delusion that someone else has anymore right to anything than me. This is a funny bit of ethical conditioning hammered into every boy and girl in capitalist countries. How absurd it is to believe that because someone else has resources you have no entitlement to them and that it would be immoral and criminal to share.
Surely it would pain the makers of CoD4 if someone deprived them of their automobiles, but they are not in the least bit deprived or hurt when their blockbuster game is shared by poor students who couldn't afford the game anyhow. Ethics and morality are a lot more complicated than the black & white simplified western view on the matter. Painting me or my brethren with these clumsy ideas makes you look as ignorant and foolish as those that persecute gays because of their narrow Christian morality.
Yo, first of all the whole several paragraphs that detritus "attempted to write" make no sense whatsoever...CoD4 is better and unpiratable on 360... and if you cant afford the game you want get a friggin job. No one is worried about the pirating except for Infinity Ward and Activision... I have had some really crappy support from Activision and all i have to say is it serves them right. An idea cant be clumsy cause its a thought tool. And what on gods green earth would make you compare the pirating of a video game to christian persecution of gays... I dont know which neurons in your brain gave you that thought but they are most likely defective and should be removed immediately.