Tiny Build Games Upload Own Game To Piratebay

Tiny Build Games, creators of “No Time to Explain” decided that if you can’t beat them, you may as well join them, by uploading their own game to The Pirate Bay. The upload even came with matching pirate theme, which is what tipped TorrentFreak off that this wasn’t your average game torrent.

TorrentFreak contacted Tiny Build Games about their decision to upload the pirated version themselves to which they said “People are going to torrent it either way, we might as well make something funny out of it.”

With piracy a hot topic in the matter of supposed lost sales and major financial loss, something that could hurt small indie studios much more than the large publishers, they were asked how releasing a pirate-themed pirate version of their game had gone; “We saw very positive WTF REALLY feedback from users, and saw reactions that people bought it simply because they liked the joke. So we don’t see it hurting sales in any way”.

Piracy is a very strange topic within gaming, and it is always great to see the various ways studios combat, compete and embrace it. This is certainly a neat and fitting way of turning piracy into a cheap marketing tool for indie studios.

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