I just picked up this post of Joystiq but I thought it would amuse you guys.  According to TorrentFreak Spore has earnt itself the title of being the most pirated game of 2008.  Despite the insane DRM regulations on the game it's had over 1,700,000 downloads in the last 3 months with over 500,000 of those being in the first 10 days of release.  Spore was also available on torrent sites before it was made available at retail.

Didn't somewhere say it was the most pirated game of all time?

I guess nobody really cared that they couldn't go online if they pirated.

How much PC gamers actually buy their games in stores ? I don't, nobody I know does.

Shocker, people react negatively to incredibly retarded DRM schemes. I hope the industry learned a lesson.

Yea I'm not exactly suprised either.  It just amazes me that they actually thought that this would make a dent on the number of people who pirate the game.  It seems like trying to stop this stuff is completely pointless.  Spore was no harder to play pirated than any other game.  You only missed the online features.  Meanwhile you have the odd paying customer left wondering why they can't install Spore on their new machine.

Most pirated!?

We won.

Maybe in terms of games pirates in total, but in a percentage, I'd say World of Goo takes the cake. Like 90%+ out of 100% of them were pirated.

The very definition of ironic.

It had everything going against it, popularity and that pesky DRM... and the fact it was on the PC.  Of course it was #1.

"How much PC gamers actually buy their games in stores ? I don't, nobody I know does."

"The very definition of ironic."

"dsplayer1010 said:

"The very definition of ironic."

Is it? What's the definition of ironic?"

"Balls said:

"dsplayer1010 said:

"The very definition of ironic."

Is it? What's the definition of ironic?"

  Because EA made it so you could only install the game three times to prevent it from being pirated and look what happened."

That list makes me sad.... =/

Holy shit, 470,000 people play Soccer games?

"Holy shit, 470,000 people play Soccer games?"

"Holy shit, 470,000 people play Soccer games?"

"Holy shit, 470,000 people play Soccer games?"

Christ great going everyone who pirated it, you have all gone and jusitifed to them why DRM is needed and if anything there going to use even more insane methods to prevent people from downloading it.

Um I don't think that you fully understand the post Will, despite one of the most strict DRM strategies used to date Spore was available illegally a full week before release and recieved more illegal downloads then most games get legitemate sales.  It does kinda suggest that DRM is completely worthless.

"DualReaver said:

"Holy shit, 470,000 people play Soccer games?"

You do know that game is probably in the Top 10 most selling games in the UK right now?  half my friends list has got it.

Oh and yea I know that a lot of people actually buy PC games, unfortunately they all buy through Steam.  To be fair a couple of those games are pretty high end and require quite beefy machines.  I tend to pirate high end games to see if they work on my machine before I buy them.  Burns out that saved me money on Crysis which tended to crash every 5 minutes.

It amuses me that 4 of the top 10 games are published by EA

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