A hilarious blog post of a studio who discovered there games are pirated. They even say
Of course, I would feel very bad if anybody paid $120 for a free game
“for sale in Asia except Japan” => they wrote all the text in Japanese (and latin for the Lorem Ipsum on the back)
Paradachshund@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
I learned when I released an unsuccessful mobile game a couple years ago that there are apparently automated piracy sites out there. I say that because we found a seemingly hacked version of the game on some sketchy app sites just a week after releasing it (and nobody knew about our game, so I highly doubt it was done by hand).
Moonrise2473@feddit.it 2 weeks ago
There are a lot of websites that pretend to give you a hacked version but all the download button does is to show more ads. They just automatically fill pages with automatically stolen content from play store
Paradachshund@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Sounds believable. We definitely didn’t download it so I couldn’t say for sure.
thingsiplay@beehaw.org 2 weeks ago
But this game is a physical cartridge for an old console. It’s not just patching and rereleasing in digital form. And it will be shipped in a box. So this is not something that can be automated (at least not by everyone, other than Amazon maybe).
Paradachshund@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Totally agreed on that. Sorry didn’t mean to derail the thread. I just thought someone might be interested to know about the automated stuff.
skullgiver@popplesburger.hilciferous.nl 2 weeks ago
Paradachshund@lemmy.today 2 weeks ago
Things like apkmirror are doing god’s work as far as I’m concerned. No problems with them at all.