Ferghus

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And yes, if I was a NSFW game developer (which is unlikely) and found out that my game was suddenly downloaded and then posted on kemono/f95zone, I would just ignore it. Fighting piracy or coming up with something obscure just makes it worse and can hurt the game and sales, whether that's good or bad is up to each person to decide for themselves.
Besides, as ridiculous and delusional as it sounds, piracy can also be considered a kind of advertising. Someone will download the game and play it completely, and someone will play it for 5-10 minutes, realize that he liked the game and decide to buy it, thus supporting the author. It's quite simple.
I think devs have every right to be upset and I can see why how exposure for your game doesn't seem like a good tradeoff. No artist likes hearing the excuse that they're getting exposure in lieu of payment. Whether or not it actually increases sales probably varies individually and, like the rest of us, you probably want to amass money as efficiently as possible. Like if my boss cut my pay and tried to justify it by saying he's putting in a good word to potential clients, I'd tell him to go fuck himself.

But I think the smarter PR move would have been to appeal to the dudes pirating the game, rather than trying to fight a bunch of invisible faces. Most devs say something along the lines of "while we do not condone the pirating of our game, we do ask that those of you who enjoy the game support our small dev team of two so that we can continue to make exciting titles in the future." You start sabotaging your own work and you get bad PR. Legit buyers might wait longer to avoid the BS or outright ignore your next project.

Also, didn't Nintendo specifically switch from DS to 3DS pretty much immediately because of how rampant piracy was for DS games, which actually did significantly impact sales?
 

bidlocat0

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But I think the smarter PR move would have been to appeal to the dudes pirating the game, rather than trying to fight a bunch of invisible faces. Most devs say something along the lines of "while we do not condone the pirating of our game, we do ask that those of you who enjoy the game support our small dev team of two so that we can continue to make exciting titles in the future." You start sabotaging your own work and you get bad PR. Legit buyers might wait longer to avoid the BS or outright ignore your next project.
Well said. On this forum, there are a bunch of developers, and they are not complaining that their game someone posted on the forum. They are not crying, and do not complain, if there is a topic, then so be it, people will then be able to familiarize themselves with the game and perhaps in the future to buy the game to get stable updates. It's not even hard for me to give an example of such a game: Factorial Omega: My Dystopian Robot Girlfriend (even the developer himself communicates in the thread, and listens to people, what is there to talk about, lol)
Also, didn't Nintendo specifically switch from DS to 3DS pretty much immediately because of how rampant piracy was for DS games, which actually did significantly impact sales?
Nintendo just hates pirates, that's all, what is there to talk about?
For them there is no difference between a modchip maker and some dude who created an emulator, for Nintendo they are both pirates, infringers, and they both cause loss to the company, that's it.
 
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I've played a lot of games, but I've never seen a more idiotic and stupid thing that Warumiyo came up with.
i agree that the methods employed in this case are really dumb, but i can't fault the dev for at least trying to take action. though it seems whatever they did was totally ineffective at curbing piracy, as correctly following the instructions on their post to delete pre-update save data makes the download posted here work just fine. all it does is combat cheating, which is weird and pointless.
 
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gz27

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Damn, I tried the gdrive access thing a few days ago but haven't gotten access so far. Was worth a try.
 

GammaXai

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i tried and the dev sent me this XD

WRMY LLCFri, Jul 12, 2:50 AM (23 hours ago)
YOU PAY OR JUST GO FAP IN YOUR ROOM, LOSER
Oof, on the one hand I respect the clap back but on the other I have more than one email address so I would totally withdraw my patreonage over being that unprofessional.
 

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Oof, on the one hand I respect the clap back but on the other I have more than one email address so I would totally withdraw my patreonage over being that unprofessional.
Is the dev on spectrum or something ?
 

AlphaJnx

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F this game

you play it and then when you load you get Ear rape and a no cheating banner WTF

this dev should be cursed with testicular torsion until he dies
Dude There is a volume settings how about fiddle with it? then for cheating banner well dunno why but it's funny that the devs even put an anti cheat system on a game that is just a short game and doesn't even played on multiplayer
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popel116

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honestly, this game and dev can go fuck themselves.
3rd day in a row where i changed NOTHING on my PC and get greeted with the cancerous "NO CHEATING!" screen and deleted saves...
If someone is retarded enough to implement an anti-cheat into their insignificant, 2 hour long singleplayer hentai game, it should atleast not get randomly triggered like a twitter user
 

Artificier

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Never played this game yet, does the v1.1.5 has the same problems with the anti-cheat thing and the self-destructing saves please ?
 
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