Infinity Ward dev ‘blown away’ by piracy on PC

Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare is taking the world by storm and not just in the mainstream release areas; it’s becoming popular even in the gaming underground, too. No not that underground, the other one bannered with Jolly Roger. Fourzerotwo, a developer from Infinity Ward, creators of Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare, was reportedly taken aback by the pirated copies of the modern day war shooter.

Yet another developer began to rain on the piracy issue of PC gaming, and the one taking to the limelight this time is one from Infinity Ward. In his personal blog, the developer exclaimed that he was “blown away” by the rampant piracy in PC gaming, especially with Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare (Windows PC, Sony PlayStation 3, Microsoft Xbox 360).

In an entry sub-headed “They Wonder Why People Don’t Make PC Games Any More”, fourzerotwo, author of the blog, stated that they’ve been able to extract statistics on the people who go online to play Call of Duty 4: Modern Warfare. However, they also detected a good number of those players running on stolen and cracked PC copies. What followed was this:

Not sure if I can share the exact numbers or percentage of PC players with you, but I’ll check and see; if I can I’ll update with them. As the amount of people who pirate PC games is astounding. [sic] It blows me away at the amount of people willing to steal games (or anything) simply because it’s not physical or it’s on the safety of the internet to do.

If you can remember correctly, there were other PC-only game developers who have expressed their dismay of the “growing” piracy scene. id Software was the most iconic, after they revealed that they were finally going multi-platform to keep financially afloat. Epic Games and even Valve Software are following suit, too.

Of course, there’s two sides to every story (and yes, that’s at the least), so we’re bound to hear more flak and feedback from third-parties all over the globe. Stay tuned for more developments.

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