Indie Developer Fights Piracy With Piracy

1st off the person did not say that they did not purchase games, nor did they say they did not purchase this game. 2nd most studies that investigate piracy have found that the people who pirate spend a huge amount of their money on the products they pirate, basically the ones supporting the game industry are the pirates. Same goes for the music industry, they know the people with the biggest (legally purchased) music collections share the most online. Every single person i know that pirates games, owns a tone of them as well. 3rd you say the game industry wont be around much longer if we don't "stop piracy", this is the same cry the music industry makes and their doing just fine. Industries shrink and disappear as our spending money shrinks and disappears, but that's an economy issue. Go figure that where there is poverty there is crime, and that idiots like you will always think on the symptoms of a problem (the pirating, less people buying) and not on the cause (people are broke). Do you really think there are a bunch of rich people who love games but are too cheep to purchase them? If so how do you think the game industry got it's size in the first place?

I've been a game developer for 15 years this June, and I beg you PLEASE change majors. ANYONE who YELLS words to make a POINT is an IDIOT that I would not recommend having a JOB anywhere.

I dare you to list every single thing linux (or whatever open source OS you use) does to your pc. If you don't know them all then you may very well be one of the people that "have no idea what that piece of software (or operating system) is doing to their computer".

What warped part of the internet did you pop out of, this is the weirdest excuse to pirate I have heard of in a long time. How old are you? Yes pirates attack ships, guess what they also steal software, sharing implies that it belonged to you to begin with, software doesn't belong to you for you to do anything you want with, if it did then devs would charge you what it cost them to make it, you are buying the right to play the game and that's it so stop being such a close minded greedy little *******. With the source code in hand you have given everyone who downloads it a way to freely compile and manipulate the game in any way they feel like, this is NOT what game developers want people to do, they are trying to provide a game for people to have some fun in not give you access to all the code so you can **** them in the **** with it. You like a game pay for it so the devs can make more of the games you like, games take a lot of time, money, skill, know how, and yet they get very little to nothing in return anymore because of pirates and shoddy publishers. What in the hell do you want with the source code anyways, almost everyone one that downloaded it would have no idea what to do with it and the ones that did are either there to pirate it or steal there code to use in their own projects. Using malware as an excuse is also retarded, we are talking about games not Malware software here, I cant even think of one time I got a game that had malware in it, if you have its most likely because you have done nothing but pirate your games which 5 times out of 10 has malware installed into by the people who cracked it, you want to avoid nasties then avoid piracy to begin with. Try what I would expect is the impossible and look at it from a game developers position first before you go running your mouth.