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40 Million Attempts Made to Pirate UT3
40 Million Attempts Made to Pirate UT3
TGDaily - April 30, 2008
Submitted by Animate (241) at 4:40PM PST on May 3, 2008
"We spoke with Mark Rein, VP of Epic Games, and learned that the Unreal Tournament 3 servers received over 40 million attempts at illegitimate access using pirate keys." "When you take into account that Crytek saw similar levels of pirated copies, it is easy to see how big of a deal gaming piracy is."
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2Animate posted on Unreal Tournament 3 (PC) at 6:35PM PST on May 4, 2008. RE: 40 Million Attempts Made to Pirate UT3bids
1murphjp posted on Unreal Tournament 3 (PC) at 3:22PM PST on May 4, 2008. RE: 40 Million Attempts Made to Pirate UT3There are not 40 million pirated versions of UT3. That would make the game one of the most popular game of all time.
There are at most 1 million pirated versions. And out of this probably only 10% would have paid for this game. And the game probably did sell extra copies of the game of people who tried it and wanted to play online with it.[ Contributor ] [ Level 20 ] [ Rank: 412 ]bids
24Animate posted on Unreal Tournament 3 (PC) at 4:40PM PST on May 3, 2008. Article: 40 Million Attempts Made to Pirate UT3"We spoke with Mark Rein, VP of Epic Games, and learned that the Unreal Tournament 3 servers received over 40 million attempts at illegitimate access using pirate keys." "When you take into account that Crytek saw similar levels of pirated copies, it is easy to see how big of a deal gaming piracy is."[ Oracle ] [ Level 26 ] [ Rank: 241 ]
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"If those 40 million players actually paid the full price, it would have been nearly $2 billion more in Epic’s pocket book. That is more than the quarterly sales results from Nvidia or AMD. To add another perspective, the government lost out as well, because no sales tax is earned on pirated copies"
I'm refering to this paragraph. It makes it sound like each of those 40 million attempts come from different people.