Pirates pirate a game and get their game pirated in the pirated game and complain

[KaOTiK]

It is Pirate Inception I tell you!

When we released our very first game, Game Dev Tycoon (for Mac, Windows and Linux) yesterday, we did something unusual and as far as I know unique. We released a cracked version of the game ourselves, minutes after opening our Store.

The cracked version is nearly identical to the real thing except for one detail…

Slowly their in-game funds dwindle, and new games they create have a high chance to be pirated until their virtual game development company goes bankrupt.

One of the responses they found online.

http://www.greenheartgames.com.nyud...lator-and-then-go-bankrupt-because-of-piracy/

 

[SunnyD]

ROFL! That's epic!

 

[KaOTiK]

This makes me sad though

Hopefully this story gets them some sales. I know I am tempted to get it now lol

 

[Denithor]

Evil genius at work.

Kinda reminds me of the days of Titan Quest where cracked versions would hit a certain point in the game and just hard lock. Many people complained on the forums, the devs knew those people were running pirated copies. Problem blew up on them though because they didn't push that out quickly enough and the game got a bad reputation for crashing (although the crashes were directly due to the crack not the legit copies).

 

[Red Storm]

LOL that's awesome.

Not the actual piracy numbers though, that's unfortunate.

 

[Rhezuss]

Hahahah now i'm tempted to buy this game, looks cool!

 

[darkewaffle]

Highly amusing

 

[boozie]

Good read.

 

[blackened23]

This makes me sad though

Hopefully this story gets them some sales. I know I am tempted to get it now lol

I wish more real data on piracy were released. Developers tend to me mum on it. And then the detractors are all like "it doesn't affect developers at all so piracy is fine!!.." Sigh.

Nice info though, thanks for posting.

 

[GundamW]

Twist: "This game is a complete ripoff of Game Dev Story."
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comm...e_dev_tycoon_players_pirated_the_game/c9ozczi

 

[theevilsharpie]

Twist: "This game is a complete ripoff of Game Dev Story."
http://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comm...e_dev_tycoon_players_pirated_the_game/c9ozczi

I haven't played either, but when two games share a common theme in a common genre, there are inevitably going to be similarities in game mechanics and presentation. However, that doesn't necessarily mean that Game Dev Tycoon doesn't bring anything new to the table. Unless they completely stole Game Dev Story and simply re-branded it, it's unjustified to call it a rip off.

 

[Martimus]

While I have almost no interest in this game, I think I will buy it anyway to support the devs. $8 won't kill me, no matter if I play the game or not.

 

[badb0y]

This is sad and funny at the same time.

Only ~200 people bought the game while thousands pirated it.

 

[SMOGZINN]

If you released the cracked version yourself then it is not piracy, you gave your game away.

 

[rivan]

If you released the cracked version yourself then it is not piracy, you gave your game away.

Semantics - it still makes their point. Whether they cracked it or someone else did only makes hours difference, if that.

 

[blackened23]

If you released the cracked version yourself then it is not piracy, you gave your game away.

You just can't resist arguing semantics can you? Reminds me of Clinton's infamous "Well that depends on what your definition of is, is". You've done this over many threads.

 

[Rakewell]

If you released the cracked version yourself then it is not piracy, you gave your game away.

Yeah I thought this when I read the article too, don't understand the complete logic behind their rationale

 

[Martimus]

Yeah I thought this when I read the article too, don't understand the complete logic behind their rationale

The rationale for what?

 

[theevilsharpie]

If you released the cracked version yourself then it is not piracy, you gave your game away.

Give me a break

If the developer didn't throw it up on a torrent site, somebody else would've. Also, at no point did the developer mention or otherwise approve of BitTorrent as a distribution medium for their software. While you could make the argument that publishing a torrent and seeding the game provided implicit approval to download it, downloaders are still committing copyright infringement by transferring chunks of the game to others in the torrent swarm.

 

[theevilsharpie]

Yeah I thought this when I read the article too, don't understand the complete logic behind their rationale

It looks like they were trying to get some statistics about the piracy rate of their game, along with some potential publicity for publishing their findings.

 

[QueBert]

$7.99's how much it costs, I shall buy it today

 

[Aikouka]

So a game maker reported that their game that lets you be a game maker was pirated by pirates, and in turn, those pirates got their game pirated by simulated pirates in the game-making game.



I've been seeing some tweets from TotalBiscuit about this, and it looks like he's been playing the game a bit.

 

[HelpWithWoL]

Looks awesome!

 

[sourceninja]

Give me a break

If the developer didn't throw it up on a torrent site, somebody else would've. Also, at no point did the developer mention or otherwise approve of BitTorrent as a distribution medium for their software. While you could make the argument that publishing a torrent and seeding the game provided implicit approval to download it, downloaders are still committing copyright infringement by transferring chunks of the game to others in the torrent swarm.

Which is why I sue anyone who uses the Key of C in any song. I wrote a song once in the key of C. Any one playing any note in that key is sharing a chunk of my song and therefor pirating my song.

 

[Wardawg1001]

This article amuses me.