Indie sees his game on torrent site, thinks it’s “neat”

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Anodyne creator Sean Hogan has taken a novel approach to the perennial issue of software piracy. After noticing that his retro themed fantasy adventure had been uploaded to The Pirate Bay, this plucky developer responded by posting a handful of free download codes for the genuine article. He then told Pirate Bay forum goers that “it’s neat that Anodyne’s here and I’m glad that means more people can play it, though of course we’d love it you bought the game.”

Though the game is already available for purchase from several outlets, including Desura and GamersGate, it is yet to be approved for release on the industry leading Steam platform. Hogan was therefore demonstrating a measure of pragmatism when he asked his potential pirates to vote for Anodyne on Steam Greenlight. If that push succeeds and Hogan is able to dramatically expand his audience, his treatment of the pirates may come to be viewed as a successful example of guerrilla marketing.

Source: Reddit and Develop

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Nothing but respect for Sean. That’s awesome.

 

Well you aren’t going to “beat them” may as well use it for marketing.

 

no such thing as bad publicity right?

 

The perennial pirate’s excuse of ‘if games were cheaper and gamers were treated with respect and there was no DRM, I’d pay for it’ kind of explodes after something like this.

 

Stupid steam greenlight. I don’t mind the whole vote for what games you want feature, It makes sense in a way. But the amount of required votes to pass a game is too damn high.

It should also have a popularity sorted page that shows the highest voted games that haven’t been greenlit yet. I’m not going to sit there all day going through pages and pages, but if I could pop in once here and there and see a page of highly rated titles it would sure make exploring the games on offer a lot more interesting and likely a lot easier to get a selection of games worth voting for.

A game like this im sure would sell very well on steam. It’s just silly that it isn’t available yet.

 

diamondd:
no such thing as bad publicity right?

its sorta good publicity, he’s getting his game out there to more people :p

 

korbain: its sorta good publicity, he’s getting his game out there to more people :p

I don’t want to shut you down too hard, but that is in fact the entire point of that saying lol

 
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