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Game dev tycoon pirated to death8/4/2023 ![]() ![]() When I was younger, downloading illegal copies was practically normal but this was mostly because global game distribution was in its infancy. To the players who played the cracked version! I’m sure some of the players have firewalls and some will play offline therefore the actual number of players for the cracked version is likely much higher. ![]() Anyway, the cracked version has a separate ID so I can separate the data. It’s absolutely anonymous and you are covered by our privacy policy. Heaps of games/apps do this and we use it to better understand how the game is played. We know this because our game contains some code to send anonymous-usage data to our server. I also tried to appeal to a particular forum a day earlier after someone who I gave early-access to the Store seemed to have passed on the copy to others: I do think it’s important to try to communicate what piracy means to game developers to our consumers. If years down the track you wonder why there are no games like these anymore and all you get to play is pay-to-play and social games designed to suck money out of your pockets then the reason will stare back at you in the mirror. Unfortunately, due to my lack in search-engine-optimization skills, that page has had no impact yet, but I hope it will convince some to buy the game in the future. For this reason, when we released the game, we also published a page which targets people who search for a cracked/illegal version. They will immediately search for a cracked version. I know that some people just don’t even think about buying games. ![]() Surely, for most of these players, the 8 dollars wouldn’t hurt them but it makes a huge difference to our future! Trying to appeal to pirates However, as the developer, who spent over a year creating this game and hasn’t drawn a salary yet, I wanted to cry. Why are there so many people that pirate? It ruins me!Īs a gamer I laughed out loud: the IRONY!!! ![]()
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