Vitali Kirpu and Alex Poysky, the developers behind Pixel Piracy, have āpiratedā a copy of their own game, offering a free torrent download on their site. Because if you canāt beat āem, appeal to their sense of decency.
āWe arenāt idiots, we arenāt highā, they write on the gameās site. āWe believe that anyone who wants to pirate our game will do so anyways, and feel itās a much safer bet to offer those people the official link to our game in hopes that they keep their computerās virus free.ā
Itās as much an act of promotion (the game is about piracy, after all) as it is appealing to peopleās sense of decency, but this isnāt Call of Duty weāre talking about here. No publisher or team of lawyers is going to care one way or another how it all pans out. If these guys can bait people into trying their full game for free then paying up later if they like it, best of luck to them.
Pixel Piracy [Site, via Indie Statik]
Pixel Piracy [Steam Greenlight]
