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There presumably was behind the dead link, see https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/world-of-goo-piracy-rate-82 https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/world-of-goo-piracy
by boomboomsubban 3y ago
There presumably was behind the dead link, see https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/world-of-goo-piracy-rate-82 https://www.rockpapershotgun.com/world-of-goo-piracy-rate-82
The original claim was based on the number of IPs that submitted to the leaderboard compared to the number of games sold.
- iSnow 3y agoBut if it's IP-based, it's completely unreliable. My home DSL gets a new IP# every 24h and I know that is not uncommon in Europe at least. I bought it both for Mac and iOS, and I would be responsible for hundreds of false-positive "pirated installs" as I played it a long time.
- boomboomsubban 3y agoThe link addresses that by saying 76% of player IDs only connected from 1 IP. So the 90% is high, but not by a massive amount.