Indie dev explains how pirating his game can actually help ULTRAKILLAn indie game developer revealed his thoughts on pirating his own games with some perplexing logic that actually works. A user on X posted a picture of them downloading a program with the text saying they love pirating indie games, sparking a debate among some community members. The comments underneath the post are filled with people explaining the good and bad sides of pirating games from small developers. Later, the poster claims that they had already purchased the game in question, ULTRAKIL, once before. In the end, the creator behind ULTRAKILL decided to step forward and state his opinions on pirating his own games. However, their response may not have been what some expected. \u201cAs creator of said game: You should support indies if you can, but culture shouldn\u2019t exist only for those who can afford it,\u201d said Hakita on X. \u201cULTRAKILL wouldn\u2019t exist if I hadn\u2019t had easy access to movies, music and games growing up. If you don\u2019t have money, you can support via word of mouth.\u201d This was not the end of Hakita\u2019s response to the conversation, wanting to fill more people in on what it means to have gamers pirating the game, explaining that even \u201cbusiness-minded people\u201d could acknowledge spreading the word about the game leading to a potential sale is the way to operate. \u201cThe more they, the customer, think you\u2019re a cool person, a funny person, the more likely they\u2019ll talk about you, and consequently, your product \u2013 unlike if they hate you for your business decisions that affect them,\u201d explained another commenter underneath the post. Overall, the X post that was sent out mostly as a troll to the community had a positive impact on the community from the game\u2019s developer.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Indie dev explains how pirating his game can actually help ULTRAKILLAn indie game developer revealed his thoughts on pirating his own games with some perplexing logic that actually works. A user on X posted a picture of them downloading a program with the text saying they love pirating indie games, sparking a debate among some […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-82355","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82355","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=82355"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/82355\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=82355"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=82355"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=82355"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}