Indie development sim Game Dev Tycoon gives pirates a taste of their own torrenting

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Redon: Used games are being decried by most distributors as "the devil's second worst creation" right after media piracy. Because they don't see any money from it. IMO software piracy is a good thing, because at some point it will make regurgitation of content by distributors that much harder.

although I am seeing slow changes now that crowdfunding is becoming more popular - giving talented developers the chance to break away from the big gaming studios. Like Chris Roberts is doing.

This business model is awesome. Best proof is Planetary Annihilation. People are in contact with the developers starting from the concept stage through the development stage all the way to the finish. It's done in a managed way, but because it is crowdfunding, the devs can listen to what people want as they go along with it - after all their funding sort of depends on it. One of the examples is people asking for the game to be compatible with Linux. It's definitely a model for the future, it allows for proper innovation rather than indie game devs getting stifled by greedy, money grubbing, innovation ruining distributors.