Tags: CD Projekt; Witcher 2, The
<p><a href="http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/11/29/interview-cd-projekts-ceo-on-witcher-2-piracy-why-drms-still-not-worth-it/" target="_blank">This interview</a> on PCGamer with CDProjekt's <span>Marcin Iwinski covers the topics of DRM and piracy in The Witcher 2.</span></p>
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<p><strong>PCG: Can you offer any concrete numbers or percentages as far as Witcher 2 piracy goes?</strong></p>
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<p><strong>MI</strong>: There are no stats available, but let’s make a quick calculation. I was checking regularly the number of concurrent downloads on torrent aggregating sites, and for the first 6-8 weeks there was around 20-30k ppl downloading it at the same time. Let’s take 20k as the average and let’s take 6 weeks. The game is 14GB, so let’s assume that on an average not-too-fast connection it will be 6 hours of download. 6 weeks is 56 days, which equals to 1344 hours; and with 6h of average download time to get the game it would give us 224 downloads, then let’s multiply it by 20k simultaneous downloaders.</p>
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<p>The result is roughly 4.5 million illegal downloads. This is only an estimation, and I would say that’s rather on the optimistic side of things; as of today we have sold over 1M legal copies, so having only 4.5-5 illegal copies for each legal one would be not a bad ratio. The reality is probably way worse.</p>
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<p>Spotted at: <a href="http://www.gamebanshee.com/news/105883-good-old-games-interview-the-witcher-2-pirated-millions-of-times.html">Gamebanshee</a></p>
<p><a href="http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/11/29/interview-cd-projekts-ceo-on-witcher-2-piracy-why-drms-still-not-worth-it/" target="_blank">This interview</a> on PCGamer with CDProjekt's <span>Marcin Iwinski covers the topics of DRM and piracy in The Witcher 2.</span></p>
<p><span> </span></p>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>PCG: Can you offer any concrete numbers or percentages as far as Witcher 2 piracy goes?</strong></p>
<p><strong><br /></strong></p>
<p><strong>MI</strong>: There are no stats available, but let’s make a quick calculation. I was checking regularly the number of concurrent downloads on torrent aggregating sites, and for the first 6-8 weeks there was around 20-30k ppl downloading it at the same time. Let’s take 20k as the average and let’s take 6 weeks. The game is 14GB, so let’s assume that on an average not-too-fast connection it will be 6 hours of download. 6 weeks is 56 days, which equals to 1344 hours; and with 6h of average download time to get the game it would give us 224 downloads, then let’s multiply it by 20k simultaneous downloaders.</p>
<p> </p>
<p>The result is roughly 4.5 million illegal downloads. This is only an estimation, and I would say that’s rather on the optimistic side of things; as of today we have sold over 1M legal copies, so having only 4.5-5 illegal copies for each legal one would be not a bad ratio. The reality is probably way worse.</p>
</blockquote>
<p> </p>
<p>Spotted at: <a href="http://www.gamebanshee.com/news/105883-good-old-games-interview-the-witcher-2-pirated-millions-of-times.html">Gamebanshee</a></p>