PC Game Developer Pirates Own Game As Promotion

Courtesy Techdirt  Mon, 11/09/2009 - 18:59

A bunch of folks sent in stories about the decision by smaller, indie PC game developer RedLynx to put its own "pirated" game on BitTorrent the same day as it released the game.

The one difference is that it removed one feature (a leaderboard, which the company describes as "the soul" of the game) from the "pirated" version, hoping that those who got the game that way would eventually agree to upgrade to the full version later.

The company's...

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