We have been pirated; we're a real game studio now! · by Safety Stoat Studios (December 04, 2024)
We have been pirated; we're a real game studio now! · by Safety Stoat Studios (December 04, 2024)
Forward: Please do not go on eBay and contact the seller. we already did that, and there's nothing more to be gained from it. We're happy to announce that, for the first time we're aware of, unauthori...
A hilarious blog post of a studio who discovered there games are pirated. They even say
Of course, I would feel very bad if anybody paid $120 for a free game
I learned when I released an unsuccessful mobile game a couple years ago that there are apparently automated piracy sites out there. I say that because we found a seemingly hacked version of the game on some sketchy app sites just a week after releasing it (and nobody knew about our game, so I highly doubt it was done by hand).
There are a lot of websites that pretend to give you a hacked version but all the download button does is to show more ads. They just automatically fill pages with automatically stolen content from play store
Sounds believable. We definitely didn't download it so I couldn't say for sure.
But this game is a physical cartridge for an old console. It's not just patching and rereleasing in digital form. And it will be shipped in a box. So this is not something that can be automated (at least not by everyone, other than Amazon maybe).
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Things like apkmirror are doing god's work as far as I'm concerned. No problems with them at all.
"for sale in Asia except Japan" => they wrote all the text in Japanese (and latin for the Lorem Ipsum on the back)