Some thoughts on piracy, after browsing various torrent sites
Piracy isn’t new to games, but I’m currently doing research for an upcoming EGMi piece sporting a hopefully refreshing angle on the subject (look for it online in a few weeks), but I couldn’t help but chuckle at some of the descriptions attached to various torrents.
Look at this one, part of the freshly minted Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days for PC torrent:
1. Unrar. 2. Burn or mount the image. 3. Install the game. 4. Copy over the cracked content. 5. Play the game. 6. Support the software developers. If you like this game, BUY IT!
It’s as if Eidos and IO Interactive didn’t realize a PC demo at the end of July!
There are currently 5,518 people downloading at least one torrent of Kane & Lynch 2: Dog Days, according to the leeching (read: downloading) numbers attached to a popular torrenting site.
The kicker? Comments like these, from a guy named gamesforfree. “offline Co-op VERY GOOD , Support the software developers. If you like this game, BUY IT .”
Well, that’s one way to look at it.
I’m also shocked some torrenting sites actually allow you to “like” a torrent and send that as a status update to your Facebook profile. Who’s dumb enough to do that?
