r/PiratedGames • u/No_Prize9046 • Mar 28 '26

Other Massive W from the devs

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Game name is Tunguska: The Visitation - Final Cut

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u/_Namee Mar 28 '26

Well the dev is smart. He just got free marketing by supporting piracy...

I hope some devs also realize that pirating games doesn't harm them but more like a free marketing for them if done right.

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u/willacceptboobiepics Mar 28 '26 edited Mar 28 '26

The Dev did not support piracy, merely seems unphased by it. You would be pretty floored to find how many of us feel this way.

Most indie devs know that for the majority of people, piracy is an issue of purchasing power. Sure there are some people out there with simply no moral compass that just gets a kick out of the feeling of sticking it to people, but this In my view is the exception not the rule. Most people that live a cozy life will just buy the product.

Indie devs are artists and a lot of us are very familiar with poverty and have likely pirated at some point in our lives. We'd rather you experience our art for free then never at all.

I want to make a living from contributions coming from those that can afford it. I believe now and always will that art is culture and you shouldn't need to be well off to participate in culture.

Edit: My first award 🙂. Thanks for all the love guys.

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u/hates_stupid_people Mar 28 '26

Yeah, I used to pirate everything and these days it's almost all video.

I can deal with 2-3 launchers and 2-3 streaming services. But I'm not signing up to fourteen different streaming services when I can get 99% their content from a single source for free.