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Garry's Mod vs Pirates

[Apr 13, 2011, 1:16 pm ET] - Share - Viewing Comments

A tweet by Garry Newman, creator of Garry's Mod, asks a simple question: "Anyone unable to shade polygon normals?" In this post he explains this is him having a chuckle at the expense of pirates, as he has programmed a deliberate bug into his sandbox mod for the Source engine that causes this error. Word is: "Yesterday I made pirate versions of Garry’s Mod pop up an error. This error only happens when people pirate the game. 48 hours ago there were no results for this phrase on Google. As I type this there’s 717 results (and climbing by the minutes). This is partly as a result of me stupidly mentioning it on Twitter and lots, and lots, and lots of news sites posting about it. I don’t get why it’s getting so much attention." He also makes an interesting note that: "The overwhelming response has been supportive. Which to be quite honest I don’t really understand. If EA or someone does something like this people go crazy. Maybe it’s the motive.." He proceeds to explain that motive and various other elements of this interesting situation. Thanks GamePron.

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Re: Garry's Mod vs Pirates

Apr 14, 2011, 09:38

shul

Is piracy hurting your profit ? Lower the price to the point that pirates feel ashamed to show a illegal copy of your game to their friends! That's another fallacy, the iphone appstore has plenty of games which are less than $2 and people still pirate them. How low would you like devs to go? .99c is already a price point that most devs can't make money on, and I'm speaking from experience.

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Comment [quote="shul"Apr 14, 2011, 09:38]q[Is piracy hurting your profit ? Lower the price to the point that pirates feel ashamed to show a illegal copy of your game to their friends!]q That's another fallacy, the iphone appstore has plenty of games which are less than $2 and people still pirate them. How low would you like devs to go? .99c is already a price point that most devs can't make money on, and I'm speaking from experience. [/quote]

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