No? The one we got really is the first one.
Here's the 2nd one at the top of this page. The bottom one is the 1st game.
http://kairosoft.net/pc/gamedev2.html
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Pirates react to their games being pirated in Game Dev Tycoon
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Here's the 2nd one at the top of this page. The bottom one is the 1st game.
http://kairosoft.net/pc/gamedev2.html
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I need to go back to that game. Left it on chapter 2, even though I was enjoying it a lot.
roosters93
Member
Kind of surprised to see the blog coverage and the majority of people ITT eating it up.
Seems like they've got a formula to success now. Take a hit game, create an ugly clone of it, change one word in the title and profit!
Hats off to them for the marketing gimmick though.
Seems like they've got a formula to success now. Take a hit game, create an ugly clone of it, change one word in the title and profit!
Hats off to them for the marketing gimmick though.
test_account
XP-39C²
Hehe, smart thing to do. Easy to see whos playing the pirated version if they start asking question about why the game doesnt work properly =)
blitzcloud
Banned
They may have put some sort of script in the "cracked version" to send a signal of "+1" to pirate version, probably ip based or something.
Or simply check the torrent stats?
The activity could technically still be considered piracy depending on how "unauthorized" use is interpreted. It's not clear at all that putting your copyrighted thing on a tracker means that you are authorizing every single use, in particular if the people accessing the torrent have no such expectation. The fact that the copyright owner facilitated the infringement would limit the available remedies, but possibly not make the act lawful.
e: remember that most users would not have downloaded their copies from the original seed
e: remember that most users would not have downloaded their copies from the original seed
They should come up with a new fucking name for one. This really should be illegal, frankly. If Kairosoft were a bigger company in the US, you can bet your ass these guys would be sued to oblivion for good reason.
It's akin to making a game about flinging birds at shit and calling it Angry Bird Tossing.
Or Mojang being sued by Bethesda using that similar name for their card game "Scrolls".
Emerson
May contain jokes =>
There are tons of Angry Birds ripoffs across most platforms. None of them have been "sued to oblivion" as far as I know.
This is superb!
Yes having pirated copies of a game act weirdly is nothing new, but the context it is put in in this game just makes the meaning so much greater, as well as being ironic.
Ironically, piracy has given them more exposure and will now help them sell more copies. It goes both ways.
Yes having pirated copies of a game act weirdly is nothing new, but the context it is put in in this game just makes the meaning so much greater, as well as being ironic.
Ironically, piracy has given them more exposure and will now help them sell more copies. It goes both ways.
So, seriously, you work for this dev or something? You're so intent on shielding them from negative comments
LiquidMetal14
hide your water-based mammals
It sucks to see their game pirated to hell but it's also a cool idea to do something like this which sabotages cracked versions. I think it's an interesting tactic which some devs could start doing.
Dark Octave
Banned
I love it.
Sadly this won't do much though.
Sadly this won't do much though.
Congrats, now every pirate site worth a damn will pull it and replace it with a real crack.
Also:
Also:
DRM that changes the cracked game is nothing new. We were doing this pretty heavily on Dead Space 2 and I can tell you that there are some real negatives to that approach.
In our case our forums were overwhelmed with PC users complaining about bugs almost all of which were due to failed DRM checks. If someone who hasn't bought the game yet goes into the forums they just see that the PC looks like a buggy mess.
In our case our forums were overwhelmed with PC users complaining about bugs almost all of which were due to failed DRM checks. If someone who hasn't bought the game yet goes into the forums they just see that the PC looks like a buggy mess.
Diablohead
Member
Helping sales or not I applaud the devs for doing this, some real funny stuff.
It reminds me of when batman AA first came out, pirated versions would not allow batman to glide so you always fell into the joker gas about 30 minutes in and could not progress, then people posted on the game forum about it asking what they should do, lol.
It reminds me of when batman AA first came out, pirated versions would not allow batman to glide so you always fell into the joker gas about 30 minutes in and could not progress, then people posted on the game forum about it asking what they should do, lol.
blitzcloud
Banned
they didn't do that.
They simply released a different game. That's 100% success on spotting non-legit consumers.
they don't intend to keep it going as someone would catch up to the fact it was a modded version.
The real FUN aspect of this is that people who downloaded a torrent were complaining about their fictional game getting pirated.
That's the FUN part and the message they tried to get through. If they kept it like that, maybe people would think the game is too hard/broken based on "user reviews"
This company actually trademarked the name Game Dev Tycoon while Kairosoft didn't trademark Game Dev or Game Dev Story. Angry Birds on the other hand is trademarked.
I... what? Reading comprehension isnt your strongest suit it seems, lol.
Let me recap:
I complained about them copying the name and type of the game, especially in combination.
I complained about them calling everyone downloading their free demo a "pirate".
..yet I "shield" them from negative comments? Gaf sure is funky today.
blitzcloud
Banned
stop shielding man!
CambriaRising
Member
You are clearly trying to cover your tracks.
What did Rocksteady do?
I do find it funny though, no doubt. But to real pirates it is nothing more than a disconvience.
Again, the primary issue is that not only is it a rip off of the game but they've stolen the name as well. Everyone would assume this is in somehow related to the original title because of the wholesale theft of the name. If they wanted to rip off Kairosoft, fine, but don't steal their series name too. If someone made an Angry Birds clone and called it "Angry Bird Tossing" (i.e. my example), then yes, Rovio would sue them.
Even grosser. These guys are like that Tim Langdell joker.
Yeah, this. Fantastic on the Dev's part.
Wow. I feel like this should be in the OP.
I'm not surprised, mostly because I've been trying to buy it for like half an hour now, and their website won't cooperate. It keeps giving me 'the page you are looking for is temporarily unavailable'. Eh, guess I'll just play something else, I have too big of a Steam backlog anyway.
Didn't the developers of Titan Quest do something similar way back when? I remember the guys in GFW Radio talking about it a few years back. They put some game-killing bug in the final version that was activated at a certain point into the game if it was detected that the player was playing a cracked version.
People on their message boards were freaking out about this game killing bug, and then the devs let the cat out of the bag. Of course all of the people who were claiming to have experienced the error were swearing up and down they didn't pirate the game (although some did admit to it eventually).
People on their message boards were freaking out about this game killing bug, and then the devs let the cat out of the bag. Of course all of the people who were claiming to have experienced the error were swearing up and down they didn't pirate the game (although some did admit to it eventually).
More stories posted:
Escapist: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/new...v-Tycoon-Dooms-Players-to-be-Ruined-By-Piracy
EuroGamer: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...rate-the-game-to-unwittingly-fail-from-piracy
This is hilarious. Good job devs.
Escapist: http://www.escapistmagazine.com/new...v-Tycoon-Dooms-Players-to-be-Ruined-By-Piracy
EuroGamer: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2...rate-the-game-to-unwittingly-fail-from-piracy
This is hilarious. Good job devs.
Lackluster as compared to a Cow Clicker with hyper-simplistic sim elements? I won't deny that this a pretty shameless clone, but the indignation is interesting considering the gross, mindless time wasters Kairosift shits out.
Yes, but their mistake was to just crash the game after you leave town
It has 2 differently sized demos! Dundunduuuun.
Need a scumbag indie dev meme for this, I think.
[Releases 1:1 cloned game]
¯\_(ツ
_/¯ [Complains about piracy]