The Witness Nearly Sold As Much In A Week As Braid Sold In A Year

[SuperNova]

Congrats to the Witness it'd nice to see it doing so well.

And about the piracy issue, while I'm not of the opinion that piracy alone is somehow ruining the industry or even that it only has adverse effects, he still has every right to be pissed when his and his teams hard work is essentially being stolen.

Some of my favorite musicians have taken to a route where, either they offer they albums for free in an attempt to combat piracy or just not do anything about it besides raise awareness about it, not condemming the pirates either way. Instead they try and live off tour ticket sales and physical/special edition record sales, going off the assumption that brand awareness generated by the piracy will ultimately drive their sales.

Problem with gaming is, you don't have anything like that to fall back on. There is no 'original' to sell. You pour years of hard work into something and either it pays off, or not.
To then see it being pirated by the masses in a matter of hours must be frustrating, if not potentialy terrifying to say the the least.

For all of Blows reputation about being ungrateful and bitchy, going off of his tweets he was actually really reasonable and well spoken about this. It is a developers right to speak out about the pitfalls of his industry, and he did it in a non-condemming rational way.
If anything I don't get the people bitching about him in this case.