Don't pirate this game.

[Phrasing!]

I have no problem with piracy, but for anyone considering it...don't. The developers are quite clever. It is a good game and I wish I'd bought it. You'll end up either having to buy it and start over, or walk away right as it starts getting good.

[Fuhrer]

Skill issue.

[𓂀𓂏𓂀]

what did it do lol

[New Breakfast]

you just gonna tease us with these damn words and not tell us what happened?

[Darkshadovv]

Originally posted by 𓂀𓂏𓂀:

what did it do lol

Someone showed up on Discord and admitted they pirated; they got a "Controller Disconnected" warning and interacting with it forcibly opened the game's Steam page.

Which is not unlike how Rabi-Ribi does anti-piracy.

[New Breakfast]

Originally posted by Darkshadovv:

Someone showed up on Discord and admitted they pirated; they got a "Controller Disconnected" warning and interacting with it forcibly opened the game's Steam page.

Which is not unlike how Rabi-Ribi does anti-piracy.

ahh not as interesting as i thought

[Techim]

Why would one pirate indie games?

[Phrasing!]

Originally posted by Techim:

Why would one pirate indie games?

Because some games load up the first couple hours with a lot of good content and then drop off after the cutoff for a Steam refund. Like, I wouldn't have refunded Starfield after 2 hours, but I was done with it after like 10.

I'm definitely going to buy this game, but probably not until it goes on sale.

[Alexterarius]

I agree with you and to really cheer people to not pirate a game like that, reduce the ♥♥♥♥♥ price of 40 bucks to 20 max bucks, it is a steal from the companies to charge a 16 bits game metroidvania over 20 bucks, thoses games are not triple A and don't deserve even the masterpieces like Hollow knight or afterimage or Blasphemous to be above 20-25 bucks even if you play a lot of hours into it. It is not requiring 100 people too to programs thoses games and if issues as this one cause I tested it and ♥♥♥ the controls never never do 2 skills(one needed to progress:airdash and stupid ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ SPANNER SMASH OF CRAP THAT I NEVER USE NEVER!!!) on the same joystick with just the same button too ( upward left joystick with the right trigger button for example on Gamepad wil stupidly pop a spanner smash when you use right trigger and right or left analog to jump a cliff requiring airdash which resulted in many fails to cross a cliff)

[Alexterarius]

you cannot unbind spanner smash for the same button of airdash for example, thoses ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ tought about it or did'nt and it is a fail but I tried Y for airdash, I was using a lot of deadzone settings too to prevent the spanner smash to be in conflict with airdash when I use it and no, it don't work. The dev or the programmer that did this on purpose or not need to be fired, I almost destroyed my gamepad controller for this bullchit so much it was infuriating, I would like to be refund by em a controller but life don't work that way and it is on me if I broke my stuff even if it is their fault to badly designs for controls. Which is why again I recommand to not pirate this but never pay above 20-25 bucks for any metroidvania always always especially if the game has been rushed for example like Days Before(one of the worst scam I heard and glad I did not bought it).

[Alexterarius]

Originally posted by Alexterarius:

I agree with you and to really cheer people to not pirate a game like that, reduce the ♥♥♥♥♥ price of 40 bucks to 20 max bucks, it is a steal from the companies to charge a 16 bits game metroidvania over 20 bucks, thoses games are not triple A and don't deserve even the masterpieces like Hollow knight or afterimage or Blasphemous to be above 20-25 bucks even if you play a lot of hours into it. It is not requiring 100 people too to programs thoses games and if issues as this one cause I tested it and ♥♥♥ the controls never never do 2 skills(one needed to progress:airdash and stupid ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ SPANNER SMASH OF CRAP THAT I NEVER USE NEVER!!!) on the same joystick with just the same button too ( upward left joystick with the right trigger button for example on Gamepad wil stupidly pop a spanner smash when you use right trigger and right or left analog to jump a cliff requiring airdash which resulted in many fails to cross a cliff)

I can sound cheap for telling a lot or every metroidvania should not be above max 25 bucks my point is there is a lot of people buying this and for the work, quality and time we spend on a metroidvania vs a open sandbox world for example that a lot are around 30-50 bucks but have almost infinite quality gameplay depending on each of em (Valheim, Smalland) which is more fair for the price and require way more work and programming than a metroidvania and also require more people to pay for creating and making the game good, stable and viable on long terms with many updates addons mods and such. A metroidvania even the best in the world and i like metroidvanias should not go upper than 20-30 bucks max range tax included. It is business and fair business I think.

[Aphelear]

Nice walls of text

[InmaDjinn Samalik]

Originally posted by Phrasing!:

Originally posted by Techim:

Why would one pirate indie games?

Because some games load up the first couple hours with a lot of good content and then drop off after the cutoff for a Steam refund. Like, I wouldn't have refunded Starfield after 2 hours, but I was done with it after like 10.

I'm definitely going to buy this game, but probably not until it goes on sale.

You could always just buy them off of GoG. 30 day refund policy

[Rocket2049]

the pirates figured out the controller issue
but anyways you should've been able to just copy your save manually
and i'm sorry if you can't afford it
i'm broke like all the time but this game def was worth it.
as far as metroidvanias go its really really good and a huge upgrade from rabi-ribi
plus all the A-list voice actors, this game really doesn't feel indie at all
i'd play this over GOW or spiderman games these days.

[v1ckxy]

Originally posted by Techim:

Why would one pirate indie games?

It's not about "pirating" is about trust, privacy and personal ethics.

For example, in my personal case I don't buy games on steam anymore, only on gog.
I'm tired of buying a game in steam, had to remove steamstub or another random drm, then adding an api emulator to the mix in order to play a game.

I don't care about the size of the company or anything else, it's a matter of trust;

just have a look at CDP, all Witcher games (>75M units sold), Cyberbug (>25M units sold), all of them sold without any kind of DRM.

And then on the other side of the coin you have Atlus, who are absurdly paranoid about piracy and waste money on paying Denuvo instead of improving games.
For what? For selling only 22M units for a total of 20 games of the persona franchise. 28 years to achieve that...
personally, if I were them, I would be ashamed, what a big L 🤣
I would love to know their total sales, given that I would probably laugh.