right, and all those guys won't be able to play the game online anymore when infinity goes out of business or decides to stop supporting online servers for the game... meanwhile TF1 still has several full servers 14 years after it originally came out.

Shitty customer support is shitty. No excuses for it. I know who the real fucking pirates are. Do they have proof that piracy hurt the sales of CoD4? They sold less copies on the PC than they did on the xbox, but the xbox is a casual gaming device thats in 30 million homes. The PC isn't normally known for selling large quantities of games. A PC game that sells 1 million copies is considered a huge success. An xbox game that sells 1 million copies can be considered a flop(under certain circumstances).

Microsoft just BANNED 1 million modded xbox's, if that puts things into proportion, and also maybe gives you a little wakeup call in console piracy. Which is just as widespread as PC piracy.

BTW, my friend who mods xbox's for $50 told me none of the machines he has modded got caught in this recent ban wave. So I wonder how many millions more xbox's are just modded the right way.