Crystal Towers 2 - The freer version
Jul. 23rd, 2011 07:46 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
davidnSix weeks exactly. That's actually not all that bad a time to have survived, given that it seems most major games don't even manage to be officially released before they're distributed under the table of the Internet for free. But yesterday evening I found the full version of Crystal Towers 2 had been uploaded to a number of torrent sites and is now spreading around the Internet (linking to it would seem a bit self-defeating). There's a note on what I think was the original upload that says "Support the companies, which software you actually enjoy! This game is only 5 USD, just go buy it." Thanks for that - wouldn't that have been better achieved by spreading around the actual free version that I put out?
After torrenting it myself to verify which version it was, I was able to find out quite a lot fairly quickly from just the uploader's username and IP address of the seed (which is 86.48.105.122). To inform you of the actual name and address of this night elf from Denmark would be a blatant step from the kind of casual stalking the Internet allows into actual vindictiveness territory, but seeing as I've only had one order from that country, narrowing it down wasn't exactly a task of Hercule Poirot proportions.
And I can't even pretend that I'm all that annoyed about it - because the reason I even noticed the torrent was because I had had an unusual spike in sales that day. That's certainly enough to readjust my thoughts on piracy fairly quickly - for these first twelve hours at least, it seems that the "pay what you want" model has something going for it, even if it's forced upon the author. So I suppose what I need to say, paradoxically, is - Lunaru, thanks very much, you tosser.
Anyway. I also noticed that a TV Tropes page has begun to take shape - if there's anything in the game that particularly charmed or annoyed you, feel free to let yourself loose on that.
After torrenting it myself to verify which version it was, I was able to find out quite a lot fairly quickly from just the uploader's username and IP address of the seed (which is 86.48.105.122). To inform you of the actual name and address of this night elf from Denmark would be a blatant step from the kind of casual stalking the Internet allows into actual vindictiveness territory, but seeing as I've only had one order from that country, narrowing it down wasn't exactly a task of Hercule Poirot proportions.
And I can't even pretend that I'm all that annoyed about it - because the reason I even noticed the torrent was because I had had an unusual spike in sales that day. That's certainly enough to readjust my thoughts on piracy fairly quickly - for these first twelve hours at least, it seems that the "pay what you want" model has something going for it, even if it's forced upon the author. So I suppose what I need to say, paradoxically, is - Lunaru, thanks very much, you tosser.
Anyway. I also noticed that a TV Tropes page has begun to take shape - if there's anything in the game that particularly charmed or annoyed you, feel free to let yourself loose on that.
