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Cracked Game Released To Get Back At Pirates

Posted by samzenpus on from the and-nothing-changed dept.

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."

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  1. Re:So basically by ctid · · Score: 5, Insightful

    You really need to read the article.

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  2. Re:So basically by slashmydots · · Score: 5, Insightful

    It really is down due to traffic. And cloudflare really is playing medical insurance company again. If you're not familiar, it's where you pay and pay and pay for their protection and then that one time when you critically need them, they're useless and refuse to properly do their one single job that they had (they claim there's allegedly no cached version of the page for them to serve up off their servers).

  3. Re:The game itself was Pirated from another game by MaerD · · Score: 5, Insightful

    Annnd by this logic Xplane pirated MS Flight simulator. Halo pirated Wolfenstien 3d. etc.

    It isn't piracy. If the gameplay is exactly the same (such as some clones that ONLY change the graphics) you might have something. If the game plays differently, adds features, etc, it's just another entry in the genre.

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  4. Re:Interesting comparissons by RoccamOccam · · Score: 5, Insightful

    They paid the most because their market is undeserved for high end games.

    I'm hoping that you meant "underserved".