Enough is enough - people pirating games purchased via website

[Patrick]

I won't give you any names here, but enough is enough! Following incident occured yesterday:

Some dude had the guts to purchase a game from our website, pay for it with his credit card and then put it up on some forums as the "full version", practically giving it away for free. Now normally we don't know the people doing this, as they purchased the game from some other channel than our website, but this time he made the "mistake" of getting the game directly from us.

Unfortunately for him, we can track versions purchased from our website throughout the web, so we noticed his illegal pirating of our game and well - let's put it this way: He's in deep trouble now!

It's days like these that I start questioning the reasons why I'm doing this, when people start exploiting our kind services - if it continues like this we really have to consider discontinuing the development of Java based games and stop giving the games away via email - it will be WAP download only then, but hey - those people don't want it any other way.

It's in your hands - talk to your friends if they've once again downloaded a pirated copy of a game, tell them how it hurts us - the people creating those games - directly, tell them how uncool it is and that they're sore losers if they think that pirating is cool. And if they counter that they don't got the money for the games - well life sucks, welcome to capitalism! If you can't afford something, you're not meant to have it - that's the rule! You don't go out and steal a car or bicycle, just because you want it and can't afford it!

We still believe in our customers as being the power that drives the market. We're pretty on our own with this view inside the industry, so if you want to help proving those guys wrong, stop pirating our games and start encouring your friends to do the same.