Game Dev Tycoon and Piracy

Official Data from GreenHeartGames.com

Sitting here staring at these numbers for the percent of people who pirated Game Dev Tycoon as opposed to buying it is both alarming and appalling.

The general sentiment amongst pirates is usually that you pirate because it's a big company doing evil things that you disagree with. If not that reason then it's because you have no other way to get the game. We all know what we're getting into when we snag a stolen copy of something and we know who it effects -- the game publishers and developers.

Then there is this travesty. A small indie game developed by some actually pretty rad dudes. The developers and publishers are one in the same in this case, a pair of brothers. They put the game out for a reasonable $8, or $7.99 to be more accurate, and even put out a pretty banging demo. After that, mostly to see who was actually paying for the game, they even released the game fully cracked on some pirate sites, not that it had any DRM anyway. The cracked version had a different meta data name than the paid version, which is how they got this data. Nearly 95% of everyone playing this game stole it from a tiny developer who cannot afford these losses. That's low.

A day in the life of Game Dev Tycoon

Piracy is nothing new and hardly novel. Discussing it is practically moot as, as stated before, everyone is familiar with the consequences of piracy and have stated that they don't care by continuing to do so for their own reasons. While pirates are familiar with the dangers of piracy to themselves, they perhaps don't think about the dangers of piracy to companies though. Ya, big publishers aren't going to be hurting from your actions but small companies will be. These start-ups are how gamers escape the use of damaging and invasive DRM, terrible pay-to-win games, and the ever growing $5,000 to play facebook games. They do not thrive from the thousands of people who might play their game, they thrive by selling the game to you.

It is not too late, of course. People can still go out there and buy games like Game Dev Tycoon. If you don't, no one is going to break down your door and scream at you. An indie company that tried to give gamers something that they wanted will just go under. That's all.

If you're not familiar with any of this mess then you should check Game Dev Tycoon out because it's pretty spiffy.
http://www.greenheartgames.com/game-dev-tycoon-free-full-torrent-cracked-download/

Note: The above link is not to a cracked version of the game.