Game devs post their own game to The Pirate Bay

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Game devs post their own game to The Pirate Bay

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Slashdot wrote:Indie game company tinyBuild Games, who released a platformer called No Time To Explain recently, uploaded their own game to the Pirate Bay. However, there's a key difference between the game they uploaded and the version you can purchase: the game characters wear pirate hats, and everything else has a pirate theme. One of the company's founders, Alex Nichiporchik, said, 'ome people are going to torrent it either way, we might as well make something funny out of it. ... You can’t really stop piracy, all you can do is make it work for you and/or provide something that people actually want to pay for. For us this is humor, we like making people laugh.'


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The original articles also mention that game sales have actually increased since the "pirate version" was uploaded... so does piracy really negatively affect games sales then? I don't believe that there's enough evidence to make conclusions either for or against, but this is still interesting nonetheless.
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Re: Game devs post their own game to The Pirate Bay

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Will the full retail game get the pirate theme free later on? :P
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