2009 Top Sales Out

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Is there something wrong with buying a computer game legitmately?

There's nothing to brag about when it comes to pirating a game.

You buy it you buy it. People who pirate are those who mainly don't ever buy the games in the first place.

How was I bragging? It's just a fact. Hardcore PC nerds know where to find games illegally how to use them. Casual gamers in their 30s and 40s who play The Sims on their work laptop and buy Nancy Drew games for their kids don't. I'm against piracy and legally own every single TW title ever released, down to all of ETW's DLC. This is just a fact of the PC gaming industry these days.

What makes you say that? CoD:MW2 was allegedly highly pirated but it's still on the list.

That one's easy: multiplayer is the primary draw of MW2, so people who want that experience have to buy, while all the broke people will steal it for singleplayer and just leave it at that.

Big, popular games will still make money, they're just not going to beat games on the charts that are played by casual players without the time or idea of how to pirate

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I should elaborate that this only accounts for part of the reason crap like The Sims dominates sales charts (which only count retail brick-and-mortar store sales), the rest of it being the emergence of digital distribution. I personally haven't bought a game from somewhere besides Steam in years.

In summary: hardcore PC gamers don't buy games at Best Buy, they buy them on Steam or on internet retailers, or (unfortunately) pirate them.