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"Tycoon Game Dev" developers tricking software pirates - STERN.DE

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Greenheart games turns the tables and shows piracy in the video game “Game Dev Rycoon”, looks like the reality of the video games industry.

The first game of the studio Greenheart Games is the games development and includes a neat trick. Who plays the illegal version, will not last long. Soon, a message appears that informs the gamer on the in-game bankruptcy. The reason? Pirated.

the official blog of the studio said Patrick Klug Greenheart games that at the same time an allegedly illegal free version for torrent sites has been provided with the official paid version of the game.

free players can “Tycoon Game Dev” play for a few hours and then be informed that piracy affects the profits of their studios. Klug said: “Slowly reduce the in-game resources and the games are produced illegally copied until the virtual studio goes bankrupt.”

“As a player, I can only laugh at the irony,” he continued. “As a developer who needs more than a year to create the games and did not even get a salary for it, I do feel more like crying. Most players could probably get over the issue of eight U.S. dollars loose, but for our future, this amount makes a huge difference. “

One day after the publication of the usage statistics show that 93.6 percent of all players have “Tycoon Game Dev” as a free download Torrent variant in the awareness that it is illegal.

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