Cracked Game Released To Get Back At Pirates 509
John Wagger writes "When Greenheart Games released their very first game, Game Dev Tycoon (for Mac, Windows and Linux) yesterday, they did something unusual and as far as I know unique. They released a cracked version of the game, minutes after opening their Store. The pirated copy was completely same as the real copy, except that after a few hours into the game, players started noticing widespread piracy of their games in the game development simulator."
That's pretty meta (Score:4, Funny)
New feature for the pirated copy... (Score:5, Funny)
Web cams only, something like...
Dialog Box: "The boss is angry about our games being pirated! Go see him quick! [Click here to see the boss.]"
*click*
Webcam turns on showing the person sitting at the keyboard playing the pirated game.
Re:Hilarious Irony (Score:5, Funny)
If I buy their game, do I also get access to the cracked version to teach my kid a lesson?
Re:So basically (Score:5, Funny)
What do you think Game Dev Tycoon is about? Railroads?
Nice idea (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The game itself was Pirated from another game (Score:5, Funny)
Right. Because the whole concept of "Making Computer Games For A Living" is so obscure that no one else could have ever thought of it, especially not someone who makes computer games for a living.
No wonder people pirate (Score:1, Funny)
No wonder people pirate when the game is advertised at â6.49 but they don't mention until you come to pay that this is without sales tax! It actually costs â7.85.
Re:hehehehe (Score:5, Funny)
Pretty sure they stole that idea from "Top Gun" on the NES, except that in Top Gun, the DRM was active even in "legit" versions.
Re:seriously (Score:2, Funny)
Ahh I miss the grits...Lets see a HOSTS file protect against hot grits in your pants!
Re:slashdotted, cloudflare fail, here's a copy-pas (Score:3, Funny)
You pirated the article, think of the developers!
Re:Interesting comparissons (Score:3, Funny)
Re:Interesting comparissons (Score:4, Funny)
It would have been hilarious if they'd done a quick check on the number of downloads for the legit and pirated versions and had the percentage of piracy in the game the exact same as the percentage in real life.
I HAX THE HAXZORZ!!! LOLZ! (Score:5, Funny)
It's pretty sad when someone can't even work up the reading comprehension to grasp the story from a short summary.
In total, if you play the cracked version of the game, the simulator will ramp up the rate of piracy for your simulated company's games, so you will lose. It stacks the odds against you.
Anyone have a link to a hacked .exe that fixes this behavior?
Re:I HAX THE HAXZORZ!!! LOLZ! (Score:3, Funny)
Anyone have a link to a hacked .exe that fixes this behavior?
Just buy it?