![]() The higher the review scores that a game receives from the game’s fictional journalists, the high the piracy rates will be and the studio’s virtual coffers will take a massive hit until the studio is eventually forced into bankruptcy. After progressing through the ranks up to the coveted AAA market, players will soon start to find that their own games are being massively pirated by a virtual underbelly. Rather than simply informing users of the pirate version that they were breaking the law or bombarding them with nag screens, the cracked version of the game behaves almost identically to the retail build, with only one significant difference. Madness you say? Well let’s look a bit further. However, in a slightly stranger move, Greenheart also released a cracked version of the Windows version onto torrent sites which would-be pirates could download for free. The game is temporarily only officially available on the Greenheart website and Windows app store although a Steam release is currently in Greenlight phase. It is a traditional-style management sim that builds upon Kairosoft’s brilliant Game Dev Story for PC, iOS and Android and allows players to experience the highs and lows of running their own game studio. Recently, indie developer and publisher Greenheart Games released Game Dev Tycoon for the PC, Mac, and Linux. With talk of always-on connectivity on the next generation Xbox console and the now ridiculous Digital Rights Management tactics employed by some PC game publishers, it is always refreshing to see a developer take a slightly different route to preventing their intellectual property falling foul of piracy. ![]()
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