Illegal Downloads “Football Manager 2013″ SEGA gave a loss of 3.7 million dollars. China leads piracy and Portugal ranks third.
is already launched in the market the latest title in the famous game of football management simulation, the “Football Manager 2014″ Sports Interactive (the company that produces the game), revealed data on illegal downloads of your last title, the “Football Manager 2013″.
According to the Spanish sports newspaper “AS”, the “Football Manager 2013″ has more than ten million downloads pirates from computers around the world, according to a study carried out from a “trap” technology that the company inserted in the game software to track illegal downloads.
these discharges, 3.2 million came from China, which ranks first in the ‘ranking’ of piracy. Turkey (1.5 million) and Portugal (over 781 000) come in second and third positions, respectively, in the ‘ranking’ of illegal downloads of the game. Pirates Italians have illegally downloaded nearly half a million games, as reported by the Director of Sports Interactive Miles Jacobson, during the conference ‘London Games’, which took place this week in the British capital.
loss estimates from SEGA, publisher of the game, due to illegal downloads point to a reduction in revenues of 3.7 million dollars, which leads Miles Jacobson stated that “this money would have been able to hire new members to our team. ” Director of Sports Interactive also stated that “18% of people who made an illegal download of the game ended up playing it five or more times, which equates to 1.8 million players to use a product that did not pay.” For Jacobson, little can be done against it, but says, “I hope this information will help the publishers and the competent authorities to realize real problem of illegal downloads worldwide.”
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