wraggster
May 6th, 2013, 00:30
In the past days Greenheart Games hit the news with their so sad story. Basically what they did was uploading a modified version of their game called "Game Dev Tycoon" to the torrent network and whining that thousands of players used to play this instead buying a legit copy. (READ HERE (http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/04/29/the-best-anti-piracy-measure-ever)) So far so good, let's take a look at what's really behind this.
Today I BOUGHT the game to take a look if it's worth all the yellin'. Short answer: it's not.
http://imageshack.us/a/img687/2333/kair0x.png (http://imageshack.us/a/img687/2333/kair0x.png)
The developers of this game are not stupid, cuz they used multiple clever ways to promote a game which is reallly not worth to be played at all.
Anyone who plays the game will notice within the first 5 minutes that the game is a lame clone of what Kairosoft (http://kairopark.jp/iphone/en/) made really enjoyable via "Game Dev Story (https://itunes.apple.com/app/id396085661)" for iOS and Android. The whole gameplay system is copied and mixed with plastique style graphics instead of Pixelart. The decision to do so is clear: plastique style games are currently very popular on the PC platform (Zynga games).
Sadly "Game Dev Tycoon" is not even 1% of the fun you can have with the original Kairosoft game. Greenheart Games seems to have known that anyway, so the idea of the piracy experiment appeared which gave the game a boost of popularity it does not deserve. Greenheart Games are copycats who rip off others great ideas and try to sell it as their own new game - pirating ideas and making money with it doesn't seem much better than pirating games.
A tip for anyone who likes the genre: Buy "Game Dev Story" for your mobile, for the half of the price of "Game Dev Tycoon" and have 100 times more fun playing :)
http://streetskaterfu.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/game-dev-tycoon-who-are-rly-pirates.html
Today I BOUGHT the game to take a look if it's worth all the yellin'. Short answer: it's not.
http://imageshack.us/a/img687/2333/kair0x.png (http://imageshack.us/a/img687/2333/kair0x.png)
The developers of this game are not stupid, cuz they used multiple clever ways to promote a game which is reallly not worth to be played at all.
Anyone who plays the game will notice within the first 5 minutes that the game is a lame clone of what Kairosoft (http://kairopark.jp/iphone/en/) made really enjoyable via "Game Dev Story (https://itunes.apple.com/app/id396085661)" for iOS and Android. The whole gameplay system is copied and mixed with plastique style graphics instead of Pixelart. The decision to do so is clear: plastique style games are currently very popular on the PC platform (Zynga games).
Sadly "Game Dev Tycoon" is not even 1% of the fun you can have with the original Kairosoft game. Greenheart Games seems to have known that anyway, so the idea of the piracy experiment appeared which gave the game a boost of popularity it does not deserve. Greenheart Games are copycats who rip off others great ideas and try to sell it as their own new game - pirating ideas and making money with it doesn't seem much better than pirating games.
A tip for anyone who likes the genre: Buy "Game Dev Story" for your mobile, for the half of the price of "Game Dev Tycoon" and have 100 times more fun playing :)
http://streetskaterfu.blogspot.co.uk/2013/05/game-dev-tycoon-who-are-rly-pirates.html