93.6% pirated copies doesn't mean 93.6% loss in sales :)
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Ooga Booga, an old Dreamcast game based on fighting other people by throwing shrunken heads at them, had copy-protection that, if you loaded it up and it detected it was pirated, would cause a big dancing pirate to appear on the screen and say "AHOY THERE, WHALE-BOY."
I thought it was awesome.
(When it was cracked, the crackers left it in because it was so funny -- they just let you push a button to continue past it.)
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sad that those pirates didn't even get the hint. If I would steal a game about making games, and I'd get a game over because of piracy I'd feel the sting.
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Maybe because they didn't pirate. The devs distributed the game via torrent....
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...while offering the game on their website so people could also buy the game.
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But it's a different game with different features. And why does that matter? Devs of McPixel released their game on TPB as well. They also offered the game on their website so people could buy. That's not what I was arguing anyways. I'm saying it's not pirating because the devs themselves were the ones who distributed the game.
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yes they did. Devs released a different version of the game on torrent. So those who bought it wouldn't have to complain about "piracy affecting their gameplay". The piracy problem only exists on the version distributed via torrent.
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Do you see the key point? The devs released a different version of the game on torrent. Hence the people who downloaded this version are not pirates.
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If the altered version is labeled as the full version, these people did intend to pirate the full version. The fact that they downloaded an altered version is beside the point.
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It's not about whether it's the full version or not. It's about the devs of the game releasing the torrent, thereby giving implicit permission to download the game. Whether the downloaders do or do not know who uploaded the torrent does not matter - the fact that the devs did is key.
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Very nice. They did what most pirates want: released a demo version that can be downloaded easily. I think that their error was that they didn't make that message would after a while open a web browser with their store so that people would get a hint.
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