Game Dev Tycoon – Failing Business
Game Dev Tycoon is a title based around growing and producing a video game development and publishing company, so developer Greenheart Games came up with a perfect solution to deter pirates. Instead of simply crashing the game, they decided to educate the hapless thieves by having every game their company produces fail spectacularly. After you release your title into the world, a text box will appear that reads, “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.”
The message is accompanied by a frowny face instead of a continue button, as well as a poor performance in sales. This will continue to happen regardless of how good your game is, making it literally impossible to not go bankrupt in Game Dev Tycoon. We have to hand it to Greenheart Games for this clever way of both informing and combating piracy.
