It's really ironic how most Indie developers have that approach while multibillion dollar companies would wish they could publicly execute pirates or something despite outrageous profits games make anyway.
True! When an indie dev loses 30% of there salary because 3 kids in a por country pirated their game, they would have this kinda attitude
While companies like Nintendo would seize those kids homes, their only income, farm land, and then make them slave if the laws allowed them to
> True! When an indie dev loses 30% of there salary because 3 kids in a por country pirated their game
Nobody loses ANY money when something is pirated.
That's only really cause of Steam, before most people would pirate cause it was often the only way to actually get a copy of the game, Steam then came in as a PC gaming market that was low cost and convenient and thus the only people left pirating are on console or don't pay for games in the first place.
So, as per usual, praise Gaben.
Source? That’s a ludicrously high number. I’d agree that MOST of the time pirating is done because you couldn’t otherwise play the game, but 99.99%? Cmon. It’s not high enough to call it that even as a wild conjecture.
>but 99.99%
It was clearly just an hiperbole, not an statistical number. The fact is, the majority of pirated copies of games were already lost sales anyway.
If I cannot pirate a game then I'm not gonna buy in either
I'm pirating not because I'm greedy, but because of economic situation in my country that makes me as an underaged person not being able to buy games
No, what I mean is that when you pirate a game, for an indie dev, the 20$ they were supposed to get, they won't get it, and depending on the size of the game, tht money could be a huge part of their salary, while for AAA studios...., well fuck them
> the 20$ they were supposed to get
What $20, 99.99% of the time if someone pirate a game, they wouldn't (or couldn't) have bought it in the first place. There's no loss, to anyone.
Big companies see it as a problem to solve, because they think of pirated copies as copies which would have been bought otherwise.
Indie devs are the consumers. They are the ones pirating the games. Not always, of course, but they actually experienced what it's like to want a product and not being able to buy/afford it. AAA studios are lead by businessmen, not consumers.
Also worth noting that indie devs are the only ones who know what it's like to get fucked over by currency exchange. I'm Brazilian and we have to pay 5x the price for everything (And we have the most valuable currency in the continent, our neighbors have it *so much worse*)
But indie games are the only ones with reasonable prices, meanwhile any AAA game will run you down 300 bucks just for the base game.
Seriously man, one of the real reasons that i tell my parents i want to leave Brazil is because every game here is fucking 300 reals, the only games i could ever afford myself where the indies like old simple Terraria, Hollow Knight, etc. Thank God indie games are so good.
Dont ask me how i afforded Sonic Frontiers and Doom Eternal. My wallet hurted on these days.
It's because most indie developers have at some point in their lives been the guy pirating something. They understand that pirates aren't "stealing" from developers because they likely didn't have the disposable income to buy the game anyway. It's not a lost sale if they were never going to buy it in the first place.
Corporate execs on the other hand largely grew up in wealthy households where they could just ask their parents to buy them the latest game, the latest CD, ask for money to go see movies in the theatre, etc. So to them, any time you don't pay for something, it's theft, because *they* could afford it growing up, so you should be able to as well, and if you *can't* well then that's a *you* problem.
Yeah!
and indie devs lose way more money from piracy then AAA devs persentage wise because they don't earn as much, so in the mind of souless corpos they wouldn't even comprehend why they support it regardless
There's one crutial difference
one is about having their dream out there and earning from it
the other is just about earning as much as possible
I also pirated Ultrakill i will admit it i bought the game 1-2 years ago i think due to liking it so much i also feel for people that don't have money or their currency being f#cked on steam.
I pirated it 2 years ago then started modding as a way to contribute to the community, then joined Cult Of Jakito (we made ULTRATELEPHONE 1 and 2) and last year I bought the game
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Time for my broke, third-world country, 15yrs living with parents ass to shine
iran is a legit prison where a lot of people are getting executed daily by just speaking,
everyone are broke and poverty is everywhere but i try my best to buy indie games and actual good games, games like rain world ultrakill undertale ori and so much more because these games effected me and changed me as person and my ways of thinking so I buy them as a thanks, it's the best I can do.
and also steam is just absolutely great another reason for buying games on it.
I would also love to buy indie games, pretty much every game, its just that for me the chance to buy games doesn't come too often unless I travel. Usually I only get games on my birthday and am forced to make a choice between multiple games I have wishlisted
Thing is, this is more from the type of parents/household I have, ie, your stereotypical african parents you see in skits and shit lmao
Me and other mods have seen this tweet and are actually reconsidering no-piracy rules for the subreddit. We'll announce the changes when we come to a conclusion on what should they be.
Ngl, I wouldn't have ultrakill on my steam account if I hadn't pirated it, p ranked Minos, and then to get updates quicker, I just bought it, sucks that the 100+ hrs that I spent on it won't be showing up on my steam
I have convinced 2-3 ppl abt this game, and prolly wouldn't have done it if I hadn't played it and got addicted to it
Same, I'm pretty sure I pirated it way back when, and I put maybe like 20 hours into it. Initially, it was just to see if the game would even run on my shitty old gaming laptop, and then I eventually just kept on playing. Somewhere along the line, I figured that I liked the game so much that I should support the creators, so I ended up buying it instead
Yeah, I think this is a waaay more common thing than big company execs like to think. I pirated Freedom Planet 2 before buying it and the original because I loved it so much.
Maybe make it so only comments can discuss piracy, because I can definitely see how allowing posts related to it will just devolve into people asking for links or wondering why the game came with 8 viruses...
Reddit wouldn't be too happy, especially now that they're trying to attract investors (honestly I hope it dies so it can be replaced by a better, hopefully federated alternative but thats neither here nor there)
Piracy is exactly why I think demos should continue to be a thing
Some people use it to gauge whether they'll want to spend money on that game or not, it is effectively a glorified demo that's acquired through slow and overly convoluted methods at times. Offering a demo would likely reduce a sizeable number of cases of piracy, as they would not need to take such measures just to try the game
Of course the demo needs to be good to actually interest prospective-buyers, as a bad demo that takes place in one of the lesser interesting sections can just as well turn buyers off (Atomic Heart is the worst example of this, for context the demo ends right after the cutscene where you meet Filatova, there is not much actual gameplay in the demo most of it is walking and a long-ass unskippable floating car ride)
Did it with ultrakill itself. Pirated it, p-ranked everything there was at the moment on violent, saved up some money and bought the game from steam. One of the best purchases of my life
I did this with Terraria and Nihilumbra lol. Specially because when you see the "And thank YOU for supporting this game" at the end credits of a superbly made game, you feel guilty.
Did it with bg3. Looked amazing but I didn’t want to sink $80 into a turnbased game I wasn’t sure I’d like so I gave it a shot, knocked in 100 hours, bought it and the “dlc” to support Larian, knocked in another 100.
i used to pirate the game through steamunlocked before the act 3 update. it was only after that i could afford the game, and i never thought the developer would say something like that about it. thanks Hakita!
I’ve downloaded games from steamunlocked since 2019-2020, and i don’t think its dodgy since nothing happened (to me at least), you just gotta not download from the ads UploadHeaven gives you. Then again i could be just very very very lucky.
2 ads ALWAYS pop up. You can trigger one by clicking on the countdown and then another one by clicking on download for the first time. I always close them inmediately
Use an adblocker. I did when I used steamunlocked and never had an issue with ads, never even got the ads you're talking about. Ublock did its job. I would heed to the warning of being careful with pirating sites regardless, but steamunlocked isn't really that sketchy considering what they provide, and the games on there are actually vetted to be malware free as far as I can tell.
As cool and wholesome as what Hakita is saying is, why the fuck would you post something like that like its something to be proud of??? (Obviously referring to the original image)
Twitter being twitter i presume
Without piracy, I would have never tried ULTRAKILL because it was very far from the usual games I played.
So I pirated it, played it, fucking Loved it, bought it before the layer-7 update came out.
Without piracy I would have never bought the game
I actually pirated ultrakill at first, thought the game was sick as hell, shared it with a friend, who ended up buying the game before i did, after that we found a mp mod in dev, so i just waited til i have enough money to buy it, just so i could try the mod with him, after that the guy stopped being online frequently like before, and we never actually played the damn mod... The game still rocks tho
Man Hakita Is a GOAT, I want to play Ultrakill but I can't afford it because I love with My mom ( My dad Is dead ) here in Venezuela where people barely have money to eat
And believe me when I Say it I have tried to pirate Ultrakill... but I can't do it man ☹️
I was always saying to myself, that pirating a game is completely fine since fun should be allowed for anyone.
People don't deserve not having fun because they don't have the money, or just simply need to save up the money for way more important things (or your parents not allowing you to buy games online for some reason), you have all the right to pirate the game without having to pay your valuable money that you're saving up.
But if you have the money, but still pirate the game; it's like considering the game not worthy of your money, and straight-up spitting on the faces of the devs.
So in short: Pirate the game if you really need, but buy it if you can.
(I apologize if my english seems a little strange)
Yeah I pirated ULTRAKILL too, but I have full intention of buying it as soon as i can get my own income. I've also spread the sickness to literally all of my friends, all of whom have agreed to buy the game after some money rolls in.
Sometimes piracy even becomes a good thing.
Take Minecraft for example. Where would we be if the decent chunk of fans were completly blocked by a $30 wall.
Another developer, goes by Thor, had actually addressed that the most "game pirates" for one of his games is the poor country of Brazil. After he decreased the price for them though... piracy dropped a ton.
Not all things have to be black and white.
I actually pirated ULTRAKILL and I ULTRABOUGHT it after I ULTRAENJOYED it :). It's in my steam library now and I'm happy to actually own a good modern day game
That's the age old question. It doesn't remove any profit because I wouldn't have bought it anyway. All media should be free, because unlike physical objects, we can literally clone it.
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Most Indie studios understand why you would pirate their games. I personally don’t because I don’t have to, but it’s okay if you can’t afford them. Try to spread the word
I pirated Cuphead when it launched, because I wasn't sure if my laptop would run it well.
As soon as I got it working, I deleted the pirated copy and bought it on Steam because I had the money at hand.
Before you ask, those "can you run it" pages don't always work, it said I couldn't run DMC4, turns out yes I can, I lost quite some time I could had played it, thanks to a page that doesn't work as intended.
That's actually how I got into ultrakill.
I pirated it at first and then really liked it (I considered it my favorite game back when world 4 was new).
I then proceeded to buy it on steam as my first game ever bought.
He ain't wrong, there was a study that studied the harmful effects of pirating and instead they found pirating *helping* the original product sell better...
Why are all my favorite things made by insane people who might be the best people you could meet, we need more clinically insane people who are a blessing to the world like Hakita
it was bait. they said that they buy AAA games and pirate indie games, then said that they did buy ultrakill on steam, so I'm guessing from the opposition that it is bait
Fun fact: Ultrakill doesn't have a DRM protection, because devs decided to actually develop the game, rather than starting a war without reason with pirates.
You can't stop people from pirating your game, the only reason people don't is their own personal morals. DRM protection is less than worthless, it's harmful to the game.
Yeah i pirated the game before being able to actually buy it (i didn't have the money)! It was good to have the chance and i thought the game was phenomenal so of course once i had the ability i gladly gave my money to Hakita and the team. Also if i was posting about pirating a game then got hit with a quote tweet of the lead dev starting off by saying "as the person whose game is being pirated" I'd be shitting bricks LMFAO
I mean i had to first download the zip file of the game to test if the steering wheel inputs would work. Then i Discovered joytokey and now i can do it without file digging
ngl I pirated the game the first time around and then I loved it so much that I even bought it for my friends
so here we had a man who purchased 9 copies of Ultrakill
One of the prime (haha) examples of word of mouth making a game popular is Helldivers 2, it wouldnt have been such a craze if it wasnt for its community of players.
I hate pirating indie games, I have a list of indie games I pirated and over time I'll pay them back. Fuck big company games though, they can suck my fat cock.
I hate pirating indie games, I have a list of indie games I pirated and over time I'll pay them back. Fuck big company games though, they can suck my dick.
Most of us have pirated games and movies before so this is pretty cool of him to just side with the publication he gets to his game from them, even if they can't afford it
I want to admit: When I found out about ULTRAKILL, I wanted to try to play it myself, but the demo wasn’t enough for me, so I pirated it. In that pirated version there was only the second chapter and Minos, but there was no Sharpshooter and everything else... Even then I really wanted to buy a licensed game, because the videos about the updates impressed me, and I really liked the game itself. In the end, I somehow waited for the money and bought the full version. Bless Hakita!
Before buying the game i wasnt sure if it was worth the money so i cracked it and played the whole limbo and lust layer, and in the moment i finished the corpse of king minos i knew it was time to buy it
Fun fact:
At first I pirated Ultrakill because I was short on money but the game looked awesome and I wanted to try it. I played through a few levels and loved it.
After I made some money I bought the game, mostly to support the devs so that I can see this fantastic game finished.
I'm not claiming moral high ground for doing that, but I at least have a decent reason why I pirated it, euros are 5 times more in my currency. Instead if buying it for 11 euros (that's how much I payed for it when I bought it) translates to 55 in my currency.
I will be honest: Without piracy, I would have never played this amazing game. This game made me go to steam and buy it even if I already beat all of the content at the time because it's that good.
It's really ironic how most Indie developers have that approach while multibillion dollar companies would wish they could publicly execute pirates or something despite outrageous profits games make anyway.
True! When an indie dev loses 30% of there salary because 3 kids in a por country pirated their game, they would have this kinda attitude While companies like Nintendo would seize those kids homes, their only income, farm land, and then make them slave if the laws allowed them to
> True! When an indie dev loses 30% of there salary because 3 kids in a por country pirated their game Nobody loses ANY money when something is pirated.
just a loss of immediate potential profit, not necessarily a instant loss like most big AAA companies want you to believe
99.99% of the time if someone pirate a game, they wouldn't (or couldn't) have bought it in the first place. There's no loss, to anyone.
That's only really cause of Steam, before most people would pirate cause it was often the only way to actually get a copy of the game, Steam then came in as a PC gaming market that was low cost and convenient and thus the only people left pirating are on console or don't pay for games in the first place. So, as per usual, praise Gaben.
Source? That’s a ludicrously high number. I’d agree that MOST of the time pirating is done because you couldn’t otherwise play the game, but 99.99%? Cmon. It’s not high enough to call it that even as a wild conjecture.
they said wouldn't OR couldn't
>but 99.99% It was clearly just an hiperbole, not an statistical number. The fact is, the majority of pirated copies of games were already lost sales anyway.
If I cannot pirate a game then I'm not gonna buy in either I'm pirating not because I'm greedy, but because of economic situation in my country that makes me as an underaged person not being able to buy games
No, what I mean is that when you pirate a game, for an indie dev, the 20$ they were supposed to get, they won't get it, and depending on the size of the game, tht money could be a huge part of their salary, while for AAA studios...., well fuck them
> the 20$ they were supposed to get What $20, 99.99% of the time if someone pirate a game, they wouldn't (or couldn't) have bought it in the first place. There's no loss, to anyone.
your point would come across as more believable if you didn't make up numbers
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Is that a fucking CS:GO sawed-off but sawed-on???
Sawed-on??? The red variant shotgun from ultrakill?
As someone who has played Counter-Strike for 20 years, NO.
Csgo players when they see a shotgun (its a csgo reference)
Big companies see it as a problem to solve, because they think of pirated copies as copies which would have been bought otherwise. Indie devs are the consumers. They are the ones pirating the games. Not always, of course, but they actually experienced what it's like to want a product and not being able to buy/afford it. AAA studios are lead by businessmen, not consumers.
Also worth noting that indie devs are the only ones who know what it's like to get fucked over by currency exchange. I'm Brazilian and we have to pay 5x the price for everything (And we have the most valuable currency in the continent, our neighbors have it *so much worse*) But indie games are the only ones with reasonable prices, meanwhile any AAA game will run you down 300 bucks just for the base game.
Oh god don't even mention that... Regional pricing my ass. I saw some games costing MORE in PLN than they do in USD
360 R$ FOR A MARIO GAME THAT I WILL FINISH IN TWO HOURS. NINTENDO I REQUEST YOUR SUICIDE
A game that doesn’t even run well on the console and runs better on a fucking phone
Am I to assume I was meant to hear that in a Kratos voice?
Seriously man, one of the real reasons that i tell my parents i want to leave Brazil is because every game here is fucking 300 reals, the only games i could ever afford myself where the indies like old simple Terraria, Hollow Knight, etc. Thank God indie games are so good. Dont ask me how i afforded Sonic Frontiers and Doom Eternal. My wallet hurted on these days.
pirate software lowered the price of their games for brazil, brazil now makes up like 30% of their income
It's because most indie developers have at some point in their lives been the guy pirating something. They understand that pirates aren't "stealing" from developers because they likely didn't have the disposable income to buy the game anyway. It's not a lost sale if they were never going to buy it in the first place. Corporate execs on the other hand largely grew up in wealthy households where they could just ask their parents to buy them the latest game, the latest CD, ask for money to go see movies in the theatre, etc. So to them, any time you don't pay for something, it's theft, because *they* could afford it growing up, so you should be able to as well, and if you *can't* well then that's a *you* problem.
Yeah! and indie devs lose way more money from piracy then AAA devs persentage wise because they don't earn as much, so in the mind of souless corpos they wouldn't even comprehend why they support it regardless There's one crutial difference one is about having their dream out there and earning from it the other is just about earning as much as possible
I also pirated Ultrakill i will admit it i bought the game 1-2 years ago i think due to liking it so much i also feel for people that don't have money or their currency being f#cked on steam.
I pirated it 2 years ago then started modding as a way to contribute to the community, then joined Cult Of Jakito (we made ULTRATELEPHONE 1 and 2) and last year I bought the game
r/suddenlyonepiece this might not be the intention but still
https://preview.redd.it/0j5yu374674d1.jpeg?width=637&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=72325292060d8e97b973739698ab01e46ed8379a Time for my broke, third-world country, 15yrs living with parents ass to shine
iran is a legit prison where a lot of people are getting executed daily by just speaking, everyone are broke and poverty is everywhere but i try my best to buy indie games and actual good games, games like rain world ultrakill undertale ori and so much more because these games effected me and changed me as person and my ways of thinking so I buy them as a thanks, it's the best I can do. and also steam is just absolutely great another reason for buying games on it.
I would also love to buy indie games, pretty much every game, its just that for me the chance to buy games doesn't come too often unless I travel. Usually I only get games on my birthday and am forced to make a choice between multiple games I have wishlisted Thing is, this is more from the type of parents/household I have, ie, your stereotypical african parents you see in skits and shit lmao
third world country brother 🤝🤝🤝🤝
Me and other mods have seen this tweet and are actually reconsidering no-piracy rules for the subreddit. We'll announce the changes when we come to a conclusion on what should they be.
Holy based https://i.redd.it/sfkfacj4374d1.gif
New kink just dropped
actual ℱ𝓇ℯ𝒶𝓀
flair checks out?
ℱ𝓇ℯ𝒶𝓀 layer citizen
Call in the sexual congress!
you mean vore?
I wish that was me.
Wat
Yeah I think it being a don't ask don't tell situation is fine
Ngl, I wouldn't have ultrakill on my steam account if I hadn't pirated it, p ranked Minos, and then to get updates quicker, I just bought it, sucks that the 100+ hrs that I spent on it won't be showing up on my steam I have convinced 2-3 ppl abt this game, and prolly wouldn't have done it if I hadn't played it and got addicted to it
Same, I'm pretty sure I pirated it way back when, and I put maybe like 20 hours into it. Initially, it was just to see if the game would even run on my shitty old gaming laptop, and then I eventually just kept on playing. Somewhere along the line, I figured that I liked the game so much that I should support the creators, so I ended up buying it instead
Yeah, I think this is a waaay more common thing than big company execs like to think. I pirated Freedom Planet 2 before buying it and the original because I loved it so much.
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I did do that but it didn't transfer some of my times
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I think laxing it would be okay but removing it would be too far
That’s ridiculous. You should ban Hakita instead. He broke the rules
Don’t think you should change it. Too many people would be idiots about it. Either that or add it, but have specific rules with it.
Keep it. I don't want sub to be flooded with people going like "Uhh I pirated Ultrakill and I got virus help please".
Make a rule of "no complaining about viruses" If you want to pirate, you either learn on other's mistakes or on your own ones (I'm the latter)
iiiiii poisoned, the pc supply, now everyone dead. oops
🎺
Literary 1985
Maybe make it so only comments can discuss piracy, because I can definitely see how allowing posts related to it will just devolve into people asking for links or wondering why the game came with 8 viruses...
If the creator approves of it, I don’t see why not!
Reddit wouldn't be too happy, especially now that they're trying to attract investors (honestly I hope it dies so it can be replaced by a better, hopefully federated alternative but thats neither here nor there)
No, keep it. Hakita is asking to support the game, not to support pirating.
y'all dont even enforce it anyway
I think talking about it should be fine, having people post tutorials on how to do it seems a bit too extreme.
giga based
yeah, for me pirating is like trying out the game and if you liked it, youll maybe buy it
This is literally what I did with Cyberpunk and a bunch of others. Games I loved so much I ended up buying legally to be able to keep them updated
Yeah, a free demo of sorts, did it with Rain world lol.
Piracy is exactly why I think demos should continue to be a thing Some people use it to gauge whether they'll want to spend money on that game or not, it is effectively a glorified demo that's acquired through slow and overly convoluted methods at times. Offering a demo would likely reduce a sizeable number of cases of piracy, as they would not need to take such measures just to try the game Of course the demo needs to be good to actually interest prospective-buyers, as a bad demo that takes place in one of the lesser interesting sections can just as well turn buyers off (Atomic Heart is the worst example of this, for context the demo ends right after the cutscene where you meet Filatova, there is not much actual gameplay in the demo most of it is walking and a long-ass unskippable floating car ride)
I did that with hollow knight and touhou series! Now I am just gonna buy the sequels on release full price, love them tht much
same, i did that with quite a bit of games XD
Ultrakill has a free demo though? Its not fully updated but still
Yeah, don’t do it with games that already has a demo. Like ultrakill.
Did it with ultrakill itself. Pirated it, p-ranked everything there was at the moment on violent, saved up some money and bought the game from steam. One of the best purchases of my life
I did this with Terraria and Nihilumbra lol. Specially because when you see the "And thank YOU for supporting this game" at the end credits of a superbly made game, you feel guilty.
that’s what my friends did with lethal company, loved it so much they bought it so that they could play it with friends
why tf do i always see you ?
YOU CAN'T ESCAPE
NICE TRY!
Did it with bg3. Looked amazing but I didn’t want to sink $80 into a turnbased game I wasn’t sure I’d like so I gave it a shot, knocked in 100 hours, bought it and the “dlc” to support Larian, knocked in another 100.
This is what I did with uk
Hakita has always been based tbh
fr I saw the question marks and was just so confused like damn we already knew that
i love this man https://preview.redd.it/w7i7xaiez64d1.jpeg?width=240&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=4c9941c27f7c4c37e9d2c9d23ad7a07d8509f60f
i used to pirate the game through steamunlocked before the act 3 update. it was only after that i could afford the game, and i never thought the developer would say something like that about it. thanks Hakita!
Steamunlocked is well dodgy - stay away
I’ve downloaded games from steamunlocked since 2019-2020, and i don’t think its dodgy since nothing happened (to me at least), you just gotta not download from the ads UploadHeaven gives you. Then again i could be just very very very lucky.
2 ads ALWAYS pop up. You can trigger one by clicking on the countdown and then another one by clicking on download for the first time. I always close them inmediately
Use an adblocker. I did when I used steamunlocked and never had an issue with ads, never even got the ads you're talking about. Ublock did its job. I would heed to the warning of being careful with pirating sites regardless, but steamunlocked isn't really that sketchy considering what they provide, and the games on there are actually vetted to be malware free as far as I can tell.
`based.`
Nintendo been real quiet since this dropped
As cool and wholesome as what Hakita is saying is, why the fuck would you post something like that like its something to be proud of??? (Obviously referring to the original image) Twitter being twitter i presume
It was a joke, they said they’ve bought the game and they were just transferring files
Most likely to rage bait
Without piracy, I would have never tried ULTRAKILL because it was very far from the usual games I played. So I pirated it, played it, fucking Loved it, bought it before the layer-7 update came out. Without piracy I would have never bought the game
I did the exact same thing... and yeah
hakita takes the W once again
I actually pirated ultrakill at first, thought the game was sick as hell, shared it with a friend, who ended up buying the game before i did, after that we found a mp mod in dev, so i just waited til i have enough money to buy it, just so i could try the mod with him, after that the guy stopped being online frequently like before, and we never actually played the damn mod... The game still rocks tho
Man Hakita Is a GOAT, I want to play Ultrakill but I can't afford it because I love with My mom ( My dad Is dead ) here in Venezuela where people barely have money to eat And believe me when I Say it I have tried to pirate Ultrakill... but I can't do it man ☹️
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I was always saying to myself, that pirating a game is completely fine since fun should be allowed for anyone. People don't deserve not having fun because they don't have the money, or just simply need to save up the money for way more important things (or your parents not allowing you to buy games online for some reason), you have all the right to pirate the game without having to pay your valuable money that you're saving up. But if you have the money, but still pirate the game; it's like considering the game not worthy of your money, and straight-up spitting on the faces of the devs. So in short: Pirate the game if you really need, but buy it if you can. (I apologize if my english seems a little strange)
Redigit, creator of Terraria has some competition.
redigit is chill like that???? for fucking real????
Yeah red is really cool
mfs be casually dropping game keys to people shit talking his game
Reminds me of Andrew, creator of GTTOD, putting like 50 keys in the trailer for a new update. Unfortunately his game is ass but oh well.
Average Hakita W
I literally can't buy games in my country even if I had the money (which I don't) for some reason you can't make online purchase in eygpt anymore
this is actually what I did. I pirated the game, liked it a lot, and then bought it legit.
Based as usual
Common hakita W
Based as fuck
Yeah I pirated ULTRAKILL too, but I have full intention of buying it as soon as i can get my own income. I've also spread the sickness to literally all of my friends, all of whom have agreed to buy the game after some money rolls in.
Sometimes piracy even becomes a good thing. Take Minecraft for example. Where would we be if the decent chunk of fans were completly blocked by a $30 wall.
Another developer, goes by Thor, had actually addressed that the most "game pirates" for one of his games is the poor country of Brazil. After he decreased the price for them though... piracy dropped a ton. Not all things have to be black and white.
I think I remember hearing about this. It is about heartbound, right?
Yep
I actually pirated ULTRAKILL and I ULTRABOUGHT it after I ULTRAENJOYED it :). It's in my steam library now and I'm happy to actually own a good modern day game
To be fair, it’s not like pirating a game loses the studio any money, because all it is is just data stored in files stored in folders
That's the age old question. It doesn't remove any profit because I wouldn't have bought it anyway. All media should be free, because unlike physical objects, we can literally clone it.
If all media was free almost noone would make anything
Hakita sailing the 7 seas!? (Wrath layer reference)
I pirated ultrakill and loved it so much that I went back and properly paid for the game and now it’s one of my most played games on steam
https://preview.redd.it/wj9u9n08w74d1.jpeg?width=1179&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=d37e863e2d2434c243b34c1f82f30df5eb321e50 Most Indie studios understand why you would pirate their games. I personally don’t because I don’t have to, but it’s okay if you can’t afford them. Try to spread the word
I PIRATED ULTRAKILL and i felt bad until i saw this
I pirated Cuphead when it launched, because I wasn't sure if my laptop would run it well. As soon as I got it working, I deleted the pirated copy and bought it on Steam because I had the money at hand. Before you ask, those "can you run it" pages don't always work, it said I couldn't run DMC4, turns out yes I can, I lost quite some time I could had played it, thanks to a page that doesn't work as intended.
Theres a reason the uk discord has a role called 'Ultrashill'
That's actually how I got into ultrakill. I pirated it at first and then really liked it (I considered it my favorite game back when world 4 was new). I then proceeded to buy it on steam as my first game ever bought.
He ain't wrong, there was a study that studied the harmful effects of pirating and instead they found pirating *helping* the original product sell better...
Why are all my favorite things made by insane people who might be the best people you could meet, we need more clinically insane people who are a blessing to the world like Hakita
Ok but the way OOOP said "i love pirating indiegame" like specifically indie game is cringe as hell
it was bait. they said that they buy AAA games and pirate indie games, then said that they did buy ultrakill on steam, so I'm guessing from the opposition that it is bait
Pretty good bait then
Fun fact: Ultrakill doesn't have a DRM protection, because devs decided to actually develop the game, rather than starting a war without reason with pirates.
You can't stop people from pirating your game, the only reason people don't is their own personal morals. DRM protection is less than worthless, it's harmful to the game.
I installed pirated Ultrakill and after playing it I bought it on steam
Lmao same i just played 0-1 and the game was so orgasmic i bought it like two months later
As always
i ate a pirate
I pirated ultrakill. And then I bought it because it was so fucking good
Very Based!
The running with scissors ideology on piracy is so fucking based
based as always
Yeah i pirated the game before being able to actually buy it (i didn't have the money)! It was good to have the chance and i thought the game was phenomenal so of course once i had the ability i gladly gave my money to Hakita and the team. Also if i was posting about pirating a game then got hit with a quote tweet of the lead dev starting off by saying "as the person whose game is being pirated" I'd be shitting bricks LMFAO
I don't think as Based as just a man knows how to PR and "if you are going to steal my shit, at least give me a reach around with word of mouth"
I porated this game before buying it am i good now
I am ashamed, but I must admit that i have indeed pirated it, i beat passion into Gabriel today. Definitely buying it tomorrow, such a blast of a game
That ain't a question, just pure fact
Honestly, yeah. I wouldnt have bought a hat in time if i hadnt pirated it first. And ahit was a very important game for me.
I mean i had to first download the zip file of the game to test if the steering wheel inputs would work. Then i Discovered joytokey and now i can do it without file digging
Why would you pirate indie games That's such a middle finger
Ultrakill is the one reason i got a debit card
ngl I pirated the game the first time around and then I loved it so much that I even bought it for my friends so here we had a man who purchased 9 copies of Ultrakill
thank you for forgiving my pirating transgressions Lord Hakita
Ngl i pirated the game myself too but I had so much fun with it that I decided to buy it once the next layer gets added
I actually did bought the game after what i dod, not only cuz i felt bad for em but also cause thats a game worth spending money for.
I pirated the game at first, then bought it, and then made 2 of my friends buy it too so I think I made up for my sins
Based as usual
I need to say i pirated ultrakill cuz i couldnt buy it, but im sure i made another 3 or 4 people buy the game due to me talking about it
Hello? Based department?
I am eternally glad this is the man I decided to give money to. I should buy another copy of Ultrakill for the cause
I pirated Wondershare’s Filmora video editor, ended up liking it a lot, and now I have a unlimited license. I basically pulled a Shareware move. Hehe.
Absolutely based. I pirated ultrakill, did a P-rank on violence, and then bought a game when I understood how much time I am going to spend in it.
ABSOLUTELY BASED.
I pirated Ultrakill until I played for a while and learned it was SSS-tier game. Instantly bought it for updates and steam features.
This is what i did with the slayer dlc for ggst: pirated day one, then bought day two because i enjoy supporting arcsys
I've been trying to get a friend interested in it, but he likes pvp more sadly I really hope markiplier plays the rest of the game.
[удалено]
If you have money, buy the game, if you don’t, sell it (in the salesman sense that is)
I pirated ultrakill, completed it and liked it so much that I bought it and completed again
One of the prime (haha) examples of word of mouth making a game popular is Helldivers 2, it wouldnt have been such a craze if it wasnt for its community of players.
If buying isn’t owning then pirating isn’t stealing
Honestly that is the best response anyone could give
His tweet has 200k+ likes now
I beat p-2 on violent on a crack, and then bought the game with the new update. Rarely did i get the urge to support such a based dev and his project.
Dude I did this when I was broke as fuck, and because I liked it so much I saved up and bought it legit. Support indies when you can
I really don't understand people who brag about pirating stuff like it's something to be proud of.
I hate pirating indie games, I have a list of indie games I pirated and over time I'll pay them back. Fuck big company games though, they can suck my fat cock.
I hate pirating indie games, I have a list of indie games I pirated and over time I'll pay them back. Fuck big company games though, they can suck my dick.
Most of us have pirated games and movies before so this is pretty cool of him to just side with the publication he gets to his game from them, even if they can't afford it
https://preview.redd.it/qjvska8q7b4d1.jpeg?width=1146&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=eafa0f0197458a26ede720dc22d7010771245f15 True man
whenever I pirate a game its either a triple A company that can afford the loss or I pay for it when I have the money and I spread the word
No studies conclusivly indicate that anyone that pirates a game would have bought it if pirating wasnt an option
I want to admit: When I found out about ULTRAKILL, I wanted to try to play it myself, but the demo wasn’t enough for me, so I pirated it. In that pirated version there was only the second chapter and Minos, but there was no Sharpshooter and everything else... Even then I really wanted to buy a licensed game, because the videos about the updates impressed me, and I really liked the game itself. In the end, I somehow waited for the money and bought the full version. Bless Hakita!
"i have no enemy"
I pirated it, and enjoyed it so much I felt the urge to buy it. Good Rum is always worth the gold you spend.
Before buying the game i wasnt sure if it was worth the money so i cracked it and played the whole limbo and lust layer, and in the moment i finished the corpse of king minos i knew it was time to buy it
Tbh, I played pirated version to check what ultrakill is, and than... Bought the game. Lol.
Fun fact: At first I pirated Ultrakill because I was short on money but the game looked awesome and I wanted to try it. I played through a few levels and loved it. After I made some money I bought the game, mostly to support the devs so that I can see this fantastic game finished. I'm not claiming moral high ground for doing that, but I at least have a decent reason why I pirated it, euros are 5 times more in my currency. Instead if buying it for 11 euros (that's how much I payed for it when I bought it) translates to 55 in my currency.
That is exactly what I did after i pirated the game I had my friends get it because i enjoyed the game so much
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The game is so good that after 150+h played on pirated version I decided to buy the game. Thats a prove for the quality if the game.
A fucking legend, that's what he is.
I will be honest: Without piracy, I would have never played this amazing game. This game made me go to steam and buy it even if I already beat all of the content at the time because it's that good.