2D Boy: 90 percent of World of Goo PC players pirated the game
One of the big indie game sleeper hits has been 2D Boy's remarkable puzzle game World of Goo. However it looks like most of the folks who have played the full PC version of the game haven't been good enough to actually pay for it. According to a comment string on Rock Paper Shotgun, the developers have said that 90 percent of the full copies being played on PCs are pirated versions.
One of the 2D Boy team members, Kyle Gabler, stated they arrived at the number by "...looking at unique ip's that have contacted our leaderboard server for any reason, at least once." However he seems to have a good attitude about the whole situation, saying, "I know it sounds like a gruesome number, but we like to tell ourselves 'those people wouldn't have bought it anyway'. The good news is, some have mailed us, telling us they bought the game because they first pirated it and liked it. Hurray for (some) humanity!"
[Via Joystiq]
One of the 2D Boy team members, Kyle Gabler, stated they arrived at the number by "...looking at unique ip's that have contacted our leaderboard server for any reason, at least once." However he seems to have a good attitude about the whole situation, saying, "I know it sounds like a gruesome number, but we like to tell ourselves 'those people wouldn't have bought it anyway'. The good news is, some have mailed us, telling us they bought the game because they first pirated it and liked it. Hurray for (some) humanity!"
[Via Joystiq]
Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)
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This is absolutely horrible. There's no reason to pirate a 20 dollar indie game that offers a perfectly good demo.Posted at 9:32AM on Nov 14th 2008 by Steven Wong
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That's a pretty stupid way to determine how many people have pirated your game. For one, it assumes everyone has static IP addresses. I don't. So I may have a different one every time I check the leader board, and if I check it 30 times over the course of me having the game....
But yes, people nowadays are inherently dishonest, and unfortunately that doesn't change depending on the medium.
Posted at 10:26AM on Nov 14th 2008 by Peregrine



Quite sad, as it is affordable and adorable. It literally can look right in the pirates eyes and say "why did you steal me?"
Played the demo, loved it, but its a wait til xmas one for me.Posted at 6:07PM on Nov 13th 2008 by sicsided