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pdate: For 2009, the most pirated PC game as reported in this article was Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2. The PC version had a staggering 4.1 million downloads via torrents alone compared with an estimated 200,000 - 300,000 actual sales via retail and Steam, demonstrating that the most popular game of 2009 was also the most pirated, and more importantly, that the actual number of downloads for the most popular game is now almost three times as high as in 2008, signalling the rampant growth of piracy. It is also interesting to note that while COD:MW2 sold around 300,000 copies on PC and had 4.1 million pirated downloads, the console version sold in excess of 6 million copies during the same period according to this article, and yet had a fraction of the number of pirated downloads at around 970,000.

Update: For 2010, the most pirated PC game as reported in this article was Call of Duty: Black Ops, at 4,270,000 downloads via torrents, compared with 930,000 downloads for the XBox 360 version of the same game. It's not surprising then to see that the PC version of Black Ops is estimated to have only made up only 6% of the total sales for the game in the UK for example, while the XBox 360 version accounted for 54% of sales, and the PS3 at 40%. It's also interesting to note the remainder of that list of top 5 downloaded PC games includes the most popular games of 2010: Battlefield: Bad Company 2, Mafia 2, Mass Effect 2 and StarCraft 2, each one racking up more than 3 million downloads - that's around three times the highest downloaded XBox 360 game, or equivalent to the total number of people playing a PC game on Steam at any one time.

Update: For 2011, the most pirated PC game as reported in this article was Crysis 2 at 3,920,000 copies. Surprisingly, Crysis 2 does not appear in the top 5 pirated games on XBox 360. Instead, we must look to two other games in the most pirated games lists - Battlefield 3 and Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 - for comparisons between PC and console piracy. Battlefield 3 was pirated at least 3,510,000 times on PC compared to 760,000 on XBox 360, while Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 3 was pirated 3,650,000 times on PC compared to 830,000 on XBox 360 - in both cases showing roughly 4.5 times as much piracy on PC than console for the same game, which continues the trend of previous years.

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