Indie Statik: ''If you pirate a game and enjoy it, do you then make sure to go and purchase the official version of the game from the developers to support them? That’s what Impromptu Games are calling the “honour system,” and they’re relying on pirates of InFlux to stick to it.''
An indie developer has spoken out on how beneficial having his game in the Steam Weeklong sale has been.
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I've played a fair bit of Eldritch and Van Helsing.
Great games.
I was unaware of A Fistful of Gun and InFlux.
Plan on trying both soon.
Frank Collins provides a review of the indie puzzler Influx and says "‘InFlux’ is a relaxing/mindless puzzle game that, at the end of the day, really disappointed me. The gorgeous visuals, music, and stellar ending couldn’t make up for the lackluster puzzles and technical misfires. If you’re truly interested, I’d recommend waiting for it to go on sale. For right now, however, your 10 USD are better spent elsewhere."
That's a very naive and foolish thing to say.
Nice to see a dev treating it's customers like adults.
Lame. All games should have demos.
That's what i do with games that don't have demos. Why buy a PC game that turns out to be utter crap, and not being able to resell it?
I've downloaded many games that i thought were going to be awesome, but turned out to be s**t.
Thank you piratebay, for saving me money!
I completely understand why pirating exists. It has its ups and downs but the upside is giving people who really just can't afford this type of stuff a chance to try this software or games out.
For this type of game though I can't necessarily say pirating it will do them any good. Most games that do well and are pirated is because those pirated versions never are complete or have every feature like online play and such.
I don't make a big deal out of pirating, like I said it is very rare there are actual complete and fully functional pirated products out there. There is always something missing, something wrong, something that doesn't work and it actually does give the incentive to buy the real thing later on believe it or not.
Pirating has really never hurt anyone because it has been around literally since the internet was birthed and somehow all these companies are still doing just fine. People are just greedy and don't like the idea of people not handing them money up front.
That is the bottom line. I think pirating is great for people who know they can never afford a game, never afford that program that might help them in school or just learn. I mean at least they get something instead of nothing just because they happen to be less fortunate.
People always say "Oh just get a job" well life isn't that easy, you shouldn't be such an asshole to people like that. They very well may have a job but you don't know what their life is like, what bills they have to pay, how many kids they have to feed, a family they may have to help support none of that. People just assume cause you can't buy something you're bum.
Some people just end up in crazy situations they have no control over also that end up ruining their lives.
Guess I am just saying I can understand pirating to an extent of course in some cases it can be bad but I find those cases to be rare that there is a pirate good enough who cracks something fully. That rarely happens and usually those teams that are that good get busted.