Illegal digital video game consumption in the UK 2012-2022

Published by
J. Clement,
May 31, 2024
In an April to May 2022 survey, 17 percent of UK gaming audience respondents revealed they had used an illegal source for video games in the three months before the survey period, same as during the previous year.

Illegal digital video game consumption in the United Kingdom (UK) from 2015 to 2022

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Release date

February 2023

Region

United Kingdom

Survey time period

2015 to 2022

Number of respondents

5,000 respondents

Age group

12 years and older

Special properties

during the past 3 months

Supplementary notes

Base for 2022: those who used an illegal source at least once in that category during the past 3 months with ‘‘Download/access for free from the internet, without really being sure where it comes from” not counting as either legal or illegal and those who only selected this option not included in the base.

The source mentions that the methodology changed between March 2018 and March 2019.
This statistic is using original data from the Government Digital Service and includes copyright material from © Crown, licensed under the Open Government License v3.0

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