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    John Keefer posted a new article, Game Dev Tycoon hacks pirates' version of game.

    Game developers and publishers have been fighting piracy for some time. It seems games are cracked and posted on torrent almost as soon as they are released. One developer fought back with a killer scorpion, but another has decided to give pirates a taste of their own medicine.
    Apr 29, 2013 10:30am PDT
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    John Keefer posted a new article, Game Dev Tycoon hacks pirates' version of game.

    Game developers and publishers have been fighting piracy for some time. It seems games are cracked and posted on torrent almost as soon as they are released. One developer fought back with a killer scorpion, but another has decided to give pirates a taste of their own medicine. : ShacknewsThis person is cool!

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      This story motivated me to go to their greenlight page and click "yes." Delicious pirate tears. : snubble100
      • Good idea. Went and voted too just to say that they had an imaginative idea. Kinda lame that BB took it... : daggotThis person is cool!
    • Excellent. I love clever ways to anger pirates. Like the 'unkillable scorpion' in Serious Sam: BFE or ... : NickDelios
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      An amusing implementation, but I would think that doing this without informing the player as to why it is... : Onward, to futility!
      • If I recall with serious Sam pirates were going to the official forums asking for strats and how to avoid... : gx8
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        WTF cares about the player if they aren't paying for it anyways? : DimmonaThis person is cool!
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          They gonna clog the support channels, and social networking sites eventually. : doomedThis person is cool!
          • The support channels can easily auto-filter those out (for the most part), and social networking sites do... : ovrlrdThis person is cool!
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      I love Kairosoft's game. I play that and almost all their other sims virtually everyday on my Kindle Fire... : rtricoche
      • This is not by the same developer as game dev diary though. : ysbreker
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      This is hilarious considering they stole the gameplay and idea wholesale from another company for this ga... : GigiLeCheshire
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        Imitation is the highest form of flattery, after all. : Volatus32x
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          How similar is this to Game Dev Story? http://armorgames.com/play/14554/game-corp : Nixx2004
          • No idea but AG gave us Kingdom Rush, which is awesome. : Volatus32x
        • This isn't imitation, it's theft. More thefty than piracy. : GigiLeCheshire
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      company uploads pirated version of their own game for people to download. acts shocked when people downlo... : rtrson
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        I think you missed the point. : Nixx2004
        • The point was to fuck with the pirates. I get that. : rtrson
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          In the blog post the developer laments at the ratio of pirated versions to paid versions. Not to diminish... : SchnappleThis person is cool!
          • They were shocked, BEFORE they released their own pirated copy... : robotninja
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            I don't see the difference between the dev putting it up and somebody else. It was going to be there any... : GwyndionThis person is cool!
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              It's like a girl saying "here I am, come fuck me" and then screaming rape versus a girl who was just mind... : rtrson
              • No.. that's a terrible analogy. You should never try analogies again in fact. A better analogy would b... : ryuusekiThis person is cool!
              • no no no no no no no : Creepin_Jeezus
              • http://www.shacknews.com/chatty?id=29176119#item_29176119 : Herman Toothrot
              • Wow. : zombie man
              • WHAT : DownforceThis person is cool!
              • You are so off base with this that it completely invalidates any sort of point you may have had. : boarder2This person is cool!
              • hahah : Pneum0This person is cool!
              • This analogy is like being raped through my eyes via words. : dumb.
              • rtrson, folks! : DrWaffles
              • *Paging mace.* Is this a suitable analogy? : CrustaRThis person is cool!
              • you failed the verbal section of the SAT didn't you? : derelict515This person is cool!
              • I'm, ummm, yup. *Exits sub thread* : Volatus32x
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                http://i.imgur.com/wteEv.gif : shirif
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                  Saving this for future use. : boarder2This person is cool!
                  • It's my top bookmark, so much useful. : shirif
                • This pretty much sums up my contribution to this thread : SchnappleThis person is cool!
              • yo its ok for me to rape a girl, as otherwise it's just a lost consensual sex sale : Snuffles-
              • yes exactly! : sixfoot6This person is cool!
              • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oRp_mVi969I : Rice-RocketeerThis person is cool!
              • it's basically like the holocaust. : thecrayThis person is cool!
              • this post is so IT Professional I grew a foot long beard and gained horrifc body odor from just reading i... : DeBurgoThis person is cool!
              • holy shit you need help : moshmanThis person is cool!
              • I understood nothing, until there was you : deadbeatsaint
              • Apparently I was on fire last night and didn't even know about it. Oh well : rtrson
      • You guys are weird on the comments. : commanderxp90
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        You guys are weird on the comments. : commanderxp90
        • "nods" Commander. : sogelegos
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      It's bullshit. Who had even heard of the game before this? This is an example of an obscure game getting ... : utgaardsloke
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        I agree, games getting publicity is total bullshit. : Nali4Freedom
        • Games that are, as best I can tell, a carbon copy of an even cheaper iOS game from years ago? Fuck this s... : Vincent GraysonThis person is cool!
    • I think it's a great idea. I love it! : GwyndionThis person is cool!
    • i wonder what the makes of Game dev story think about it : CoRDSThis person is cool!
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      once again, people copying audio cassettes and floppies have destroyed yet another branch of entertainmen... : Vogerl
      • Don't copy that floppy! : Sir_Shaggy
    • wow the most amazing thing is that 3000 people bothered downloading that shovelware : alexthegreat2This person is cool!
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      This game is an outright rip of Game Dev story. It's worse than pirating the game, they took the entire ... : Darkstarblade
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        Devil's advocate: they sound like a small developer who had a new take on an existing genre and decided t... : SchnappleThis person is cool!
        • It wasn't a new take though. The game is the same. : Darkstarblade
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        Game Dev Story isn't coming to pc, I don't think ever, which is a shame. I'll take what I can get. : soundcreepy
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          It's out on PC now, and has been for some time. http://www.giantbomb.com/game-dev-story/3030-32908/forum... : Darkstarblade
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            so I guess you're a lawyer then? : SchnappleThis person is cool!
            • Considering Zynga settled with EA rather than have it go to trial, I'd think there'd be a case for copyri... : Darkstarblade
    • Pirate games are not pretty cool that cause economy very bad. -.- : commanderxp90
    • Just bought it. : rtricoche