"A Video Game in Which You Make Video Games Fights Pirates with Piracy"

[eLefAdEr]

http://kotaku.com/a-video-game-in-which-you-make-video-games-fights-pirat-484327325

Personally I love idea. The most often cited excuse for pirating a game, "there isn't a demo," is void because a demo does exist. Either those that decided to pirate it were either too lazy to look or just didn't care.

I usually avoid reading user comments (especially on Kotaku), but I got sucked in. The cognitive dissonance is amazing.

 

[panzerfaust]

Here's hoping to more DRM!

 

[uncle5555]

I'm sad now, here I thought it was going to be a game where you controlled pirates (arghhh!) vs. pirates who pirate things (hey I can download it)

How cool would that be?

 

[MoCiWe]

I read about this before, it's kind of interesting, I never heard of the game before and decided to download the "lite" version off of the Windows 8 marketplace to try it out because of this, so I'm sure the free publicity the game is getting from this is helping it out.

[quote name='panzerfaust']Here's hoping to more DRM![/QUOTE]

Oh you know it, that's just what everybody wants! ^.^

 

[Richard Kain]

This is a clever and constructive approach to dealing with software piracy. It's also delightfully ironic. Personally, I think developers need to go even farther with this approach. One of the biggest disadvantages of software piracy is that one a cracked version is in the wild, the original cracker loses control of it. There is plenty of room for exploiting the fragmented community surrounding software piracy.

 

[skyfall]

there will always be some sort of piracy.