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Cracked Game Released To Get Back At Pirates
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."
but what happens when the in-game pirates start playing their pirated pirated copies of Game Dev Tycoon? And the next generation? And the next? This game was mislabelled. It's not a game at all, it's an infinite pirate creation device.
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.
If I buy their game, do I also get access to the cracked version to teach my kid a lesson?
SJW: a person who perceives an injustice, and while correcting it, commits a greater injustice.
What do you think Game Dev Tycoon is about? Railroads?
Can't wait for rockstar tycoon, where piracy takes heavy toll on main characters cocaine habit.
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 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.
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.
Ahh I miss the grits...Lets see a HOSTS file protect against hot grits in your pants!
You pirated the article, think of the developers!
Both are accurate. Oh yeah, I said it!
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.
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ECHELON is a government program to find words like bomb, jihad, plutonium, assassinate, and anarchy.
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?
HA! I just wasted some of your bandwidth with a frivolous sig!