Actiontrip Lists the Top 10 Pirated PC Games of 2008

When you think of piracy lately, Spore comes to mind more so than anything else, and according to a post over on Actiontrip– Electronic Arts and Will Wright’s huge hit Spore is the biggest pirated game of 2008. I wonder if it has anything to do with the hoopla caused by the DRM restrictions EA imposed upon the title?

Whatever gamers reasoning for pirating these titles is, they are all listed in the order of most to least with the release date of the game next to the title. While looking this over, some of you may recall all of the money that Ubisoft claims they lost when Assassin’s Creed for the PC was pirated. The main reason that Assassin’s Creed was so highly pirated according to a lawsuit brought against OEM by Ubisoft, was because an employee took home a copy of Assassin’s Creed and uploaded it onto the internet six weeks before the game shipped in April 2008. Ubisoft claims that this led to over 700,000 pirated downloads of the title. Well, now that number is up to 1,070,000. Wow, just wow.

Anyway, without further ado, here is the list complied by TorrentFreak and posted on Actiontrip. Hopefully none of our readers have pirated any of these titles, but in reality it would be naive to think that you haven’t.

1. Spore:  1,700,000 -  Sept. 2008
2. The Sims 2:  1,150,000 – Sept. 2004
3. Assassins Creed: 1,070,000 – Nov 2007
4. Crysis: 940,000 – Nov 2007
5. Command & Conquer 3: 860,000 – Mar 2007
6. Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare: 830,000 – Nov 2007
7. Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas: 740,000 – Jun 2005
8. Fallout 3: 645,000 – Oct 2008
9. Far Cry 2: 585,000 -  Oct 2008
10. Pro Evolution Soccer 2009: 470,000 – Oct. 2008