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arsenicxenon
Aug 9, 2013
Of all the creative DRM, my favorite is Game Dev Tycoon.
If you downloaded a particular cracked version of the game, after a certain point in time in the game had passed, you would receive this message.

"Boss, it seems that while many players play our new game, they steal it by downloading a cracked version rather than buying it legally.
If players don’t buy the games they like, we will sooner or later go bankrupt."

This spawned a lot of great threads on the dev forums by people who are apparently immune to irony

the devs posted this blog post on the subject
http://www.greenheartgames.com/2013...ause-of-piracy/

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arsenicxenon
Aug 9, 2013
The entirety of Stanley's parable is a game Dev troll. Might as well name this thread pyf Stanley parable moment

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