{"id":21167,"date":"2013-04-29T07:33:27","date_gmt":"2013-04-29T14:33:27","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/?p=21167"},"modified":"2013-04-29T07:33:27","modified_gmt":"2013-04-29T14:33:27","slug":"pirates-complain-about-piracy-irony-meter-explodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2013\/04\/29\/pirates-complain-about-piracy-irony-meter-explodes\/","title":{"rendered":"Pirates complain about piracy, irony meter explodes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"fancybox\" rel=\"21167\" href=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/irony-message.jpg\"<\/a><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/04\/irony-message.jpg\" alt=\"irony-message\" width=\"600\" height=\"341\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-21168\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pirates suck. That&#8217;s something we can all agree on. Unless you&#8217;re a dirty pirate, of course. Then you&#8217;re probably too busy enjoying DRM-free games to notice what other people think of you. Greenheart Games wanted to send a wake-up call to pirates, so they uploaded a &#8220;cracked&#8221; version of their casual game development game, Game Dev Tycoon, to torrent sharing sites. This version of the game was a bit special. Hours into playing it, pirates found their virtual game development company losing money due to piracy until they went out of business.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Boss, it seems that while many players play our new game, they steal it by downloading a cracked version rather than buying it legally.<\/p>\n<p>If players don&#8217;t buy the games they like, we will sooner or later go bankrupt.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Predictably, players of the pirated version of the game took to various forums to complain about the in-game piracy ruining their games. Some even asked if there was a way to research DRM in the game to foil the virtual thieves. Irony unlocked!<\/p>\n<p>Patrick Klug of Greenheart Games <a href=\"http:\/\/www.greenheartgames.com\/2013\/04\/29\/what-happens-when-pirates-play-a-game-development-simulator-and-then-go-bankrupt-because-of-piracy\/\">posted the results<\/a> of their experiment one day after they started it. 93.6% of Game Dev Tycoon players were using the pirated version rather than paying $8 to play the game legitimately, or even using the free demo.<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>If you don&#8217;t care about all of this and just want to get a cracked and illegal version then we can&#8217;t do anything about that, but 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.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>For extra Inception-like zaniness, Game Dev Tycoon is an homage (some say rip-off) of Kairosoft&#8217;s mobile game, <a href=\"https:\/\/play.google.com\/store\/apps\/details?id=net.kairosoft.android.gamedev3en&#038;hl=en\">Game Dev Story<\/a>. Ride the kick back up the layers!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":1684,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-21167","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-games"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.7 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Pirates complain about piracy, irony meter explodes - Quarter to Three<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.quartertothree.com\/fp\/2013\/04\/29\/pirates-complain-about-piracy-irony-meter-explodes\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Pirates complain about piracy, irony meter explodes - 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