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Cracked Game Released To Get Back At Pirates

Posted by samzenpus on Monday April 29, 2013 @02:27AM 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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Re:So basically by Anonymous Coward · 2013-04-29 02:53 · Score: -1, Troll

> It's delicious irony
No it's not. They uploaded the game themselves, like a shareware, and then make fun of people who downloaded the game. That's making fun of potential customers (for an ugly game to say the least)