UK illegal digital video game consumption 2022

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

Characteristic	Share of respondents
2022	17%
2021	11%
2020	11%
2019	6%
2018	16%
2017	16%
2016	18%
2015	18%

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Release date

February 2023

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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.

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