{"id":2245,"date":"2010-12-31T03:55:30","date_gmt":"2010-12-31T03:55:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/?p=2245"},"modified":"2010-12-31T03:55:30","modified_gmt":"2010-12-31T03:55:30","slug":"black-ops-is-most-pirated-game-in-2010","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/2010\/12\/black-ops-is-most-pirated-game-in-2010\/","title":{"rendered":"Black Ops is Most Pirated Game in 2010"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<div>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><img decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/geektyrant.com\/storage\/call-of-duty-black-ops-thumb.png?__SQUARESPACE_CACHEVERSION=1293729142365\" alt=\"\" \/><\/p>\n<p>According to <a href=\"http:\/\/torrentfreak.com\/call-of-duty-black-ops-most-pirated-game-of-2010-101228\/\" target=\"_blank\">TorrentFreak<\/a>, <strong><em>Call of Duty: Black Ops<\/em><\/strong> for PC,  the Activision game was the most illegally downloaded game of the year with more than four million downloads just in one month.\u00a0Their data is comprised of numerous public reports  from BitTorrent trackers.<\/p>\n<p>Until recenly EA&#8217;s<strong> <em>Battlefield: Bad Company 2<\/em><\/strong> held the top spot for most illegal downloads. <em>Black Ops<\/em> has made over $1 billion in revenue in just over a week.\u00a0Activision&#8217;s <strong><em>Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2<\/em><\/strong> for PC was the most pirated game of 2009\u00a0with 4,100,000 downloads.<\/p>\n<p><strong><em>Super Mario Galaxy 2<\/em><\/strong> was the most pirated game on the Wii with nearly 1.5 million illegal downloads. EA&#8217;s <strong><em>Dante&#8217;s Inferno<\/em><\/strong> holds the highest number of downloads for the Xbox 360 with 1.3 million.<\/p>\n<p>TorrentFreak has compiled the top pirated games for each console as of Dec. 26, 2010:<\/p>\n<p><strong>PC Game Downloads in 2010<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Call of Duty: Black Ops\t(4,270,000)\t(Nov. 2010)<br \/>\n2. Battlefield: Bad Company 2\t(3,960,000)\t(Mar. 2010)<br \/>\n3. Mafia 2\t(3,550,000)\t(Aug. 2010)<br \/>\n4. Mass Effect 2\t(3,240,000)\t(Jan. 2010)<br \/>\n5. Starcraft II\t(3,120,000)\t(Jul. 2010)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Wii Game Downloads in 2010<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Super Mario Galaxy 2\t(1,470,000)\t(May. 2010)<br \/>\n2. Wii Party\t(1,220,000)\t(Oct. 2010)<br \/>\n3. Donkey Kong Country Returns\t(920,000)\t(Nov. 2010)<br \/>\n4. Kirbys Epic Yarn\t(880,000)\t(Oct. 2010)<br \/>\n5. Red Steel 2\t(850,000)\t(Mar. 2010)<\/p>\n<p><strong>Xbox 360 Game Downloads in 2010<\/strong><br \/>\n1. Dante&#8217;s Inferno\t(1,280,000)\t(Feb. 2010)<br \/>\n2. Alan Wake\t(1,140,000)\t(May. 2010)<br \/>\n3. Red Dead Redemption\t(1.060,000)\t(May. 2010)<br \/>\n4. Halo Reach\t(990,000)\t(Sept. 2010)<br \/>\n5. Call of Duty: Black Ops\t(930,000)\t(Nov. 2010)<\/p>\n<p>Source: IGN (http:\/\/pc.ign.com\/articles\/114\/1142183p1.html)<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to TorrentFreak, Call of Duty: Black Ops for PC, the Activision game was the most illegally downloaded<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2245","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-geeky-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2245"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2247,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2245\/revisions\/2247"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2245"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2245"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.geekworldordersite.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2245"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}