Game Piracy Linked To Critic’s Review Scores

Researchers have finally figured out what makes people to illegally download games…positive video game reviews. All we have to do is give all games bad reviews and piracy will end!

A new study by researchers from Copenhagen Business School and the University of Waterloo explores the magnitude of game piracy on public BitTorrent trackers. The researchers tracked 173 new game releases over a three-month period and found that these were downloaded by 12.7 million unique peers. They further show that the number of downloads on BitTorrent can be predicted by the scores of game reviewers.

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