Last month the two brothers at Greenheart Games implemented a brilliant bug into pirated copies of their game, Game Dev Story, that made it so anyone playing a cracked copy would unwittingly fail due to piracy.
Now Greenheart has explained on its blog that its game was successful in spite of a majority of its copies being pirated. “I’m happy to report that my brother Daniel can finally transition out of his full time job to focus exclusively on Greenheart Games,” wrote Greenheart’s Patrick Klug. “The support from paying players (who are still outnumbered by pirates) is what makes all this possible.”
Klug went on to explain its cheeky anti-piracy stunt brought in an influx of players and helped get Game Dev Tycoon greenlit on Steam.
Via: Eurogamer News
