Soleron said:
twesterm said:
NJ5 said:
twesterm said:
You know, if I was to ever make a game, I would leak a torrent out there a few weeks early of my game. The only catch would be that this version of the game comes with something that starts eating your hard drive after a certain date and at certain dates after that.
I'd start making people paranoid to pirate my shit. Let them sue me and admit that they're pirating crap because the pirated versions are the only ones that has that code. |
So you'd fight something illegal and damaging by doing something even more illegal and more damaging?
Sounds like a great plan ;)
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They'll think twice before pirating my game again. 
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People review these "early" copies and then, regardless of whether the retail game has that deliberate huge bug, your reputation as a game developer is damaged. I believe Ubisoft had this problem recently.
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Did you even read the original post I made? Reviewers would get real copies of the game, pirates would get the bugged version.
And destroying pirates hard drives wouldn't ruin my reputation (well, it might ruin my reputation with pirates but I'm already saying fuck off to them so who cares). It would only ruin my reputation if that bug shipped in the retail version.
