Machinarium suffers 90% piracy rate, offers $5 amnesty sale

Post by NonIdentifiable » Fri, Aug 06, 2010, 10:41 PM UTC

commandar wrote: post #57

ericd wrote: post #56

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It's not that odd, it's basically building a huge on-demand video library. Since videos take such a long time to download, you have to decide to get them long before you decide to watch them. Thus it makes sense to batch DL them all and then decide later.

Well, I've heard that rationalization, but the people I'm talking about tend to have literally hundreds of movies on hand, most of which they'll never actually watch. Actually watching them seems to be far less important than just accumulating as much as possible.

Post by myffical » Sat, Aug 07, 2010, 1:07 AM UTC

Post by jberryman » Sat, Aug 07, 2010, 2:11 PM UTC

ergo98 wrote: post #59

MichaelGG wrote: post #11

" the game doesn’t bother players serial codes or online authentication, but it’s also very easy to copy it " Somewhat misleading. It's also very easy to copy all the super-DRMed games. In fact, the process is identical. Load up a torrent site, search, download. At any rate, claiming 90% piracy (regardless of truth) to run a sale is probably a good marketing move. It's a beautiful game.

>Somewhat misleading. It's also very easy to copy all the super-DRMed games. Sure, if you like your machine full of trojans and malware. There is no honor among thieves, and honestly I view people who pirate executables (particularly cracked), running them anywhere but in a tightly-bound VM, as either naive or foolish.

Post by Willwhatley » Sat, Aug 07, 2010, 2:23 PM UTC

dillydally wrote: post #63

rick888 wrote: post #45

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"you can't "pirate" a car. If I took your car, you'd be less one car. If I copy a game, nobody is less anything." What if I "steal" your identity? Technically, you don't lose anything. I am just borrowing your information. Should this be okay too? How about a website that posts valid credit card information. Before someone actually uses the credit card, it's just numbers and letters on website. "Clearly this would sp…

"What if I "steal" your identity? Technically, you don't lose anything. I am just borrowing your information. Should this be okay too?" Identity theft is a good example because it illustrates the way we call lots of things "theft" which aren't. Similarly, we might say that murder is "stealing someone's life." Anyhow, identity theft isn't theft, it's fraud. And if you pretend to be me so as to, say, extend yourself a…

Post by almost » Sun, Aug 08, 2010, 2:30 PM UTC

StavrosK wrote: post #76

almost wrote: post #34

This game is really really good. It's got beautiful artwork, awesome music and endearing characters. It's like everything that was good about the Lucasarts point&clicks without the insane puzzles (the puzzles get hard, but they still make some kind of sense). A bought this game at the full price despite having the pirated version available. I really want to encourage them to make more! For what it's worth, I probably…

I bought the game because of your comment, but I really really want to add it to Steam, otherwise I'll lose the files and I'll have to download it from piratebay or something... I emailed them twice so far, I wish I had a key I could add...