Call of Duty: Black Ops is getting its fair share of end-of-year awards, but here’s one gong it probably didn’t want: 2010’s Most Pirated Game. After 2009, that’s two in a row for the series !
While Black Ops sold 5.6 million legitimate copies in its first 24 hours on sale in November, a report by TorrentFreak reveals a similar number of copies were downloaded by naughty PC and Xbox 360 owners in 2010 – 5.2 million in total.
The Wii version was also heavily downloaded, but not quite enough to beat the likes of Super Mario Galaxy 2 , Donkey Kong Country Returns , and Kirby’s Epic Yarn .
Still, that’s nothing compared to the PC, truly the format that sets the piracy yarrrrr-dstick:
PC Game Downloads on BitTorrent in 2010
1. Call of Duty: Black Ops (4,270,000) 2. Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (3,960,000) 3. Mafia 2 (3,550,000) 4. Mass Effect 2 (3,240,000) 5. Starcraft II (3,120,000)
Wii Game Downloads on BitTorrent in 2010
1. Super Mario Galaxy 2 (1,470,000) 2. Wii Party (1,220,000) 3. Donkey Kong Country Returns (920,000) 4. Kirby’s Epic Yarn (880,000) 5. Red Steel 2 (850,000)
Xbox 360 Game Downloads on BitTorrent in 2010
1. Dante’s Inferno (1,280,000) 2. Alan Wake (1,140,000) 3. Red Dead Redemption (1.060,000) 4. Halo: Reach (990,000) 5. Call of Duty: Black Ops (930,000)
[ TorrentFreak , via MTV Multiplayer]