Is downloading the cracked version, that the developers put up themselves, actually piracy or an alternative distribution method?
I don't think so, i guess it's a alternate distribution method. The developers themselves put it there.
Is downloading the cracked version, that the developers put up themselves, actually piracy or an alternative distribution method?
Is downloading the cracked version, that the developers put up themselves, actually piracy or an alternative distribution method?
Wow. I feel like this should be in the OP.
Not to be a dick...but why isnt the game on Steam ? First time i am hearing of it and it looks like an expanded Game-Dev Story and i would gladly purchased a steam version to try it out :-/
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Oh there is a demo ? Nice....
They're gonna pick it up because they always make something out of nothing for hits, otherwise it's not at all uncommon, plus other games do this kind of thing technically better by having it as part of the DRM so until discovered and properly cracked every illegally distributed version has it rather than only a separate special version of the game uploaded by themselves that technically isn't even pirating since they basically just released a free altered (and bad) version of their game.I don't see it as dumb. Looking beyond the DRM, it's a brilliant piece of publicity. Pirates will pirate, but if they capture the imagination of honest gamers with this news story, maybe they'll get a few more sales off the back of that. It's a fantastic subversion of DRM, to the point that tons of websites are going to pick up this news story.
I'd like to point out that this isn't a new idea.
Nintendo have been using this exact same kind of DRM that subtly breaks their games since the original DS released to deter piracy (it obviously wasn't effective lol R4 card)
This is amazing. I'd love to see more devs troll the pirates. Make it so a glitch only happens to pirated copies. Then when people complain about running into said glitch, they get outed as a pirate.
In general these schemes often cause a lot of negative word-of-mouth about your game. People assume the game just sucks and they tell people so.This is amazing. I'd love to see more devs troll the pirates. Make it so a glitch only happens to pirated copies. Then when people complain about running into said glitch, they get outed as a pirate.
I'd like to point out that this isn't a new idea.
Nintendo have been using this exact same kind of DRM that subtly breaks their games since the original DS released to deter piracy (it obviously wasn't effective lol R4 card)
So is this game actually any good? Anyone know?
This has been deleted now.If anyone is curious, here's the Steam thread where that "I can't progress further" screenshot came from.
http://steamcommunity.com/workshop/filedetails/discussion/134714217/810923021630878395/
That message reads like they typed it themselves though.
I'd like a system where you get nearly to the very end of the game, then you get a "YOU HAVE BEEN PIRATED!" splash with a fanciful waltz on your screen, as the game wipes all of your saved data.
In general these schemes often cause a lot of negative word-of-mouth about your game. People assume the game just sucks and they tell people so.
They're gonna pick it up because they always make something out of nothing for hits, otherwise it's not at all uncommon, plus other games do this kind of thing technically better by having it as part of the DRM so until discovered and properly cracked every illegally distributed version has it rather than only a separate special version of the game uploaded by themselves that technically isn't even pirating since they basically just released a free altered (and bad) version of their game.
But if the devs release a version of the game for free, would you actually be pirating the game if you download it?
If the definition of piracy is copyright infringement, but the copy of the game that is being distributed was created by the copyright HOLDER, and distributed by them, the people receiving the game would not be guilty of copyright infringement.
It's not the delivery method that makes a game pirated, it's the fact that the copy is unauthorized.
So the funny thing is that people playing this version of the game, made and distributed by the developers of Game Dev Tycoon, are NOT pirates.
That message reads like they typed it themselves though.
I'd like a system where you get nearly to the very end of the game, then you get a "YOU HAVE BEEN PIRATED!" splash with a fanciful waltz on your screen, as the game wipes all of your saved data.
Yeah, it's a little too on the nose. Especially the line about the new engine. I may just be cynical but it seems like viral marketing to me.
Didn't Earthbound on SNES do something like that? Well not a splash on the screen, but it wiped the saves just before the last boss or something if it detected that it was a pirated copy.
It's cool to have similar games. I haven't played this game, so maybe it's terrible. But I think in general it's a great thing to have similar games. There's room for everybody, even borderline clones. I'm also very strongly against all the people who are trying to get laws passed against game cloning. Just my opinion.I feel weird about this because the game is sorta close to KS's Game Dev Story in turn.....
I'd like a system where you get nearly to the very end of the game, then you get a "YOU HAVE BEEN PIRATED!" splash with a fanciful waltz on your screen, as the game wipes all of your saved data.
That's just a technicality though. The players playing on the modified copies are intending to play the pirated version. In other words if the "official cracked" version wasn't there they would have downloaded another cracked version anyway. So it's still an accurate count of piracy stats, which they're looking for.
~90% not unique or surprising.
Wow. I feel like this should be in the OP.
Earthbound got nasty if you were playing a pirated copy. First you got a warning screen. If you got past that check, enemies would span in significantly greater quantities to make the game absurdly difficult. If you got past THAT check, the game would delete your saves when trying to fight the final boss.
More info on it: http://starmen.net/mother2/gameinfo/antipiracy/
Yeah, it's a little too on the nose. Especially the line about the new engine. I may just be cynical but it seems like viral marketing to me.