Game Developer's Response To Pirates

cliffski writes "A few days ago, indie PC games developer Positech publicly called for people pirating their games to explain why, in an open and honest attempt to see what the causes of gaming piracy were. Hundreds of blog posts, hundreds more emails and several server-reboots later, the developer's reply is up on their site. The pirates had a lot to say, on subjects such as price, DRM, demos and the overall quality of PC games, and Positech owner Cliffski explains how this developer at least will be changing their approach to selling PC games as a result. Is this the start of a change for the wider industry? Or is this the only developer actively listening to the pirates point of view?"

Comments

First Post

[narcberry]

Most responses were, "we'd pay for your games if you'd remove the key protections"

Re:First Post

[B3ryllium]

I've heard that wine, if used to excess, can not only cause depth perception issues, but also memory corruption and crashing.

Usually only with the older builds, however.

Thanks

[Kamineko]

Nice to hear from you chris, and I wish you luck with that puzzley-platformer of yours!

Re:I use the tools...

[flyingsquid]

Personally, I think the major reason that pirates steal games is that gold-laden Spanish galleons are now awful hard to come by.

Re:I use the tools...

[QuantumRiff]

How do you play your games that ran on 5 1/4 inch floppies? DO you piss and moan that the publisher screwed you over, or wasn't forward thinking enough?