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The news - Hotline Miami creator lends support to game pirates

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ninjagaijin

Pretty funny :)

http://www.develop-online.net/news/42345/Hotline-Miami-creator-lends-support-to-game-pirates

I appreciate the honesty and outlook of the devs though

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MDuh

lol. first time i've seen that

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BernardoOne

Mcpixel developer did the same. He even gave some legit steam and desura keys on the torrent comments!

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MDuh

I've seen the mcpixel banner before but didn't know they gave out steam/desura keys

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ninjagaijin

Argh, that would have been an incentive for me to go to look to pirate it, if I had known! haha.

watching pirate bay for legit game keys.. that's new to me :)

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CatastrophicLolcats

Team Meat (of Super Meat Boy fame) also came out to say that they don't believe piracy hurts their sales as much as other members of the industry believes.

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nosef

Damn.

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ninjagaijin

Yep, if it was meant to be free, it would be free on desura or web page or something :)

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AZeroEight

On one hand I think it is a hoax on the other I think somebody has understood that stoping piracy will not increase sales (much).

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Ronik

It's not a hoax, you can find the torrent in question yourself.

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pirkka

Or might be that he understood that he can't stop pirates from downloading his game?

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Peroxide

"Here is what to do, let me know if you get it work...so I can report you to the FBI!"

It's a TRAP!

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Janrok

Trying to get pity money.

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BernardoOne

Its the 15th selling game on steam. I dont think they need any kind of pity money.

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ErrEff

Free publicity.

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Ekaros

Yep, getting out there as quality product is more important than guarding your game.

Even some positive mouth to mouth publicity probably helps a bit.

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PPG113

Looks like one of those games I wouldnt even bother to play for free...

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arronasu

its awesome game, and dev is trying to help on forum to everyone with issues^^

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tdc

game is amazing comment writer only likes 3d trash

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ninjagaijin

i LOVE retros :) gameplay over graphics

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UltraJesus

Piracy works in weird ways. I'm not saying go out and pirate games, but it does create word of mouth assuming that your game is good. Word of mouth is a very powerful advertisement tool. Pirate talks about it -> Somebody gets curious -> They buy it -> People hear it even more -> More sales. When your game is 'shit' ie Red Orchestra 2 word of mouth plays and everybody thinks it's shit even though it's been improved on what was wrong. Why? Word of mouth of the original thoughts of it is "shit." This game? I've seen it once at school and I love the music and gameplay already.

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Closed 12 years ago by ninjagaijin.