Piracy

[Matt Murdock]

"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.

I uploaded the torrent to the number one torrent sharing site, gave it a description imitating the scene and asked a few friends to help seed it."



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[Zaila]

Respect to whoever that is behind that game.

Finally a company that is going against the mainstream.

[Matt Murdock]

Respect to whoever that is behind that game.

Finally a company that is going against the mainstream.

Did you read it full? Like clicked the link and read it all?  :roll:

[Mikal]

Lol, game devs gave pirates a taste of their own medicine.

[Ehks]

Respect+

[TiMoN]

Gimme download link.

But seriously, LOL

[Kirgiz]

I wonder why Matt missed out the information about why they did it, as it is pretty relevant

Developer did it with a little glitch hidden inside the game - people who download the pirated version play the game alright until the very moment where a player gets a message that the first video game their company will start selling will be pirated - thus making the company bankrupted and losing the game, forcing to start over.

[Ziad]

wow that strange give us download link at least >?

[Devin]

Troll developers..  :cool:

[Salmonella]

Finally a company that is going against the mainstream.

There's not enough game developing companies for there to even be a 'mainstream'.

[Ron271]

LOL that's awesome!

[CharlieKasper]

hehe nice one.

[ElMartu]

i will pirate this game when they 'fix' this measure

[Wolfe]

i will pirate this game when they 'fix' this measure

Now that's just being mean.

Meh, I pirate all the time, but then again, I pirate games I would never buy had piracy never been created, I just pirate them to give em a go I guess, but you know, games I truly love and will play for hours I do indeed buy.

[MikeSangelo]

Really sends another message about how DRM can literally save a company, even though people hate it. (SimCity) - Those numbers for the cracked version were stunning.