5 Real-Life Crimes Gamers Commit Every Day

4. Pirating

Yes, that's right. I bet you've even got a game torrent queued up in the background whilst you read this, haven't you? Something ironically hip, like the London to Peterborough Main Line expansion pack for Train Simulator. Shame on you. Torrenting is a big deal - now more than ever - but the simple fact remains that playing without paying is very naughty indeed, not to mention damaging to the industry. Still, everyone's at it. Even the literally Holier-than-thou residents of the Vatican have been caught with their hands in the cookie jar, with one illegal download of Football Manager 2013 being traced back to the Catholic enclave in November. Now what kind of an example are they setting, huh? Incidentally, Football Manager 2013 also happens to be the most pirated game of last year, with a staggering 10.1 million cracked copies being piped into people's home PCs. This, according to publisher SEGA, cost them around $3.7 million in lost revenue. Think of the seven or eight new Sonic games they could have created with that kind of money!
 
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