World of Goo piracy at 90 per cent Comments by Robert Purchese

I bought it..thought about sending it over to a mate but I knew he wouldn't buy it. Had it been a non-indie game I would've done it, but the game cost what? a tenner? no excuse for pirating that really.

All pirates are cheap bastards and all pirates will pirate something if they can. Putting DRM on this game would of had no effect on the sales. The people who pirated it had no intention of every buying it also you can't buy it on steam in europe so what option do you have you either pirate it or don't play it in europe.

Well, in all honesty I didn't think this was available to buy until the start of 2009!! I'm sure I read that it was put back to then?

I am one of those NASTY people that downloaded the full version without paying - but also left a nice message on the 'pirate' site harking on about paying for the game when it was fully available. Maybe a few will?

Having read this news today that the piracy level for the game is so high, and having realised that the full game is out, I headed straight over to the 2dboy website and payed for the full game. £13 and a half quid is nothing for such a fantastic game.

My hands are now clean!

and 2dboy have another purchase.

What? It's going to be released on WiiWare in Europe as well? That's awesome!

Well, in all honesty I didn't think this was available to buy until the start of 2009!! I'm sure I read that it was put back to then?

I am one of those NASTY people that downloaded the full version without paying - but also left a nice message on the 'pirate' site harking on about paying for the game when it was fully available. Maybe a few will?

Having read this news today that the piracy level for the game is so high, and having realised that the full game is out, I headed straight over to the 2dboy website and payed for the full game. £13 and a half quid is nothing for such a fantastic game.

My hands are now clean!

and 2dboy have another purchase.

All pirates are cheap bastards and all pirates will pirate something if they can. Putting DRM on this game would of had no effect on the sales. The people who pirated it had no intention of every buying it also you can't buy it on steam in europe so what option do you have you either pirate it or don't play it in europe.


You don't know that. In this absoluteness, the statement is the polar opposite of "everyone would have bought it", and just as speculative.*

And you do have another option in Europe. Buy it from 2DBoy directly. Heck, you can even register your copy on Steam afterwards. Link. Looks like the site just went down, I guess they're getting lots of traffic because of all the news about this.


*If DRM worked, of course, or if piracy magically didn't exist.

Hm. I'm sure I'm not alone in buying the game from my laptop, in my case at work, and the using it on my laptop at home. Two completely different IP-numbers. Salty numbers that is.

All you smart-asses here hating everything called "pirate" think you're so righteous. Well you're just half. What you're saying is as silly as stating that all Arabs are terrorists. Some people install the game on more than one computer and they're treated as criminals? At least they bought the game, wtf. Then there's the people who count in billions as much as it may shock you cause you forgot about them, that can't afford to buy all their games, but I guess it's easier to just hate them all the same and call them criminals. These guys would never afford to buy the game anyway, even if protected by some infailible DRM. How much do you think a teacher or bus driver makes in Vietnam, Georgia or Sudan? And if someone replies that they should just not play the game at all, well it makes no difference to the dev since the game can be replicated ad infinitum, so why not? At least they should have this kind of joy in their life :)

I agree with you though, when it comes to the other category. The ones that have all the money in the world, play pirate all day and couldn't be bothered to pay for anything in their lives, as long as they can take it for free, and don't give a shit if the game is made by EA or by Introspection for example. Yes I'd slam these fat asses.

The concept of stealing shouldn't be applied in exactly the same way for games+music+etc. as for stealing apples, and the corporate suits should stop pushing their bullshit figures of millions $ losses, based on the amount of seeds+peers. Maybe half of them become their actual customers after all?

If it was in the shopping channel on wii now instead of next month I might have been tempted to wait and pay for it. Too late now. What I still can do though is incourage actual sales by word of mouth as a result of playing this game. That's something they never take into account.