PC piracy levels are "astounding" says COD4 dev

Infinity Ward's community manager muses, "they wonder why people don't make PC games any more."

Infinity Ward would like to sniper pirates

Infinity Ward would like to sniper pirates

"We pulled some disturbing numbers this past week about the amount of PC players currently playing [Call of Duty 4] Multiplayer (which was fantastic)," writes Robert Bowling, on the game's community blog. "What wasn't fantastic was the percentage of those numbers who were playing on stolen copies of the game."

"The amount of people who pirate PC games is astounding," he added. "It blows me away that people are willing to steal games (or anything) simply because it's not physical or it's on the safety of the internet to do."

PC games sales have decreased in recent years due to rampant piracy of software and other digital goods over internet sharing sites.

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CoD_player

I have to disagree with the statement "PC games sales have decreased in recent years due to rampant piracy of software and other digital goods over internet sharing sites." since digital distribution does is not accounted for when releasing official PC sales numbers. Only store fronts like EB games or Gamestop count towards official PC sales numbers. Digital distribution sites like Steam and Direct2Drive are now the majority wehn it comes to sales figures but as I stated above, they do not get counted. So of course the sales numbers will look grim for PC titles because no one is buying PC games at EB anymore. CoD4 has been in the top 10 sold games on Steam for the past year and still is selling strong.

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