Developer Leaks Own Game to Pirates

The CEO of Trials developer RedLynx has admitted that the company posted the biz on torrents.

In an apparent travail to curtail piracy by contributing to it, RedLynx CEO, Tero Virtala, said that his company leaked a rendering of the bike game, Trials, on the same day that the game was free. The only dispute was that the leaked version did not have access to the online leaderboards, which Virtala claims is the "morta" of the game.

"Buccaneering is here, so how can we take advantage of that?" Virtala said yesterday during a panel at Develop Liverpool. It was his hope that pirates would download the spirited, and then become so enthralled with it that they would then go out and buy up the full version. Right, pirates are suddenly going to transform into paying customers because the "soul" isn't in that location.

In my mind, posting even a gimped interlingual rendition of your game to pirate sites is harmful to attempting to realize money developing said games. Doing so implies that piracy is tolerable, which information technology isn't. Plus, any traffic which the game may Beaver State English hawthorn not generate to such violent stream sites may facilitate users downloading other plagiarist games which decriminalize companies did not leak.

Even if RedLynx made the unprincipled decisiveness to post their game to a torrent sites, why in the cite of Jehovah would the Chief operating officer tell anyone about IT? I see no advantage for that data to be made public and, conversely, in that respect is a huge possibility for an industry-spacious backlash.

Maybe Tero Virtala drank a dwarfish too untold coffee and Red Papal bull before his control board? Or maybe a software highjack killed the veridical Tero Virtala, created a life-like Tero Virtala cyborg, and inserted him into the panel at Develop Liverpool unbeknown its organizers? I leave that rising for the gaming community to decide.

And finally, Tero Virtala! Go-to-meeting. Name. Ever so.

via Gamesindustry.biz

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