Australians should pirate Hotline Miami 2 following ban, says dev

[Clan Wolf]

In light of what the devs also had to say:

Many folk are understandably miffed that Hotline Miami 2 has been refused classification in Australia. Following the Classification Board's confirmation yesterday came an official response from publisher Devolver Digital claiming the offending material had been misrepresented. Now a spokesperson from studio Dennaton Games has gone one step further, suggesting Australians should go ahead and pirate the game.
Responding to a concerned fan's email, which was later verified by Polygon, lead designer Jonatan Söderström had the following to say: "If it ends up not being release in Australia, just pirate it after release. No need to send us any money, just enjoy the game!"
So there you go. While it's nice to have the developer's blessing to download a video game for free, it's not hard for Australians to purchase banned video games digitally. Whereas other recent titles like Saints Row IV and South Park: The Stick of Truth have been slightly changed to accommodate the Australian Classification Board, it doesn't look likely to happen with Hotline Miami 2.
"Though we have no plans to officially challenge the ruling, we stand by our developers, their creative vision for the storyline, its characters and the game and look forward to delivering Hotline Miami 2: Wrong Number to fans very soon," publisher Devolver Digital wrote yesterday.

DIE HARD STEAM FANS!

Would very much like to make sure the devs get paid for their hard work. Anyone else going who cannot get it in their country (just AU it seems) going to actaully torrent it and pay for it?

If the devs informed me of a paypal account to 'donate/pay' for a copy n then just have it torrented as the easiest option, or assuming you pay for a VPN service just buy some keys from somewhere

either way you can only shortcut add it to steam, which is better than nothing but still isn't great - tend avoid this alot. most ppl though seem to shortcut games to steam alot

[0451]

I'm honestly surprised by that. I'll just go buy enough copies of Hotline Miami to make up the money then lol

[KuWanTum]

Can't Australians just trade for an uncensored gift version from someone in UK/US regions?

[Jester]

because "adults can't make their own decisions anymore"

[Sadius]

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Can't Australians just trade for an uncensored gift version from someone in UK/US regions?

Nah steam will impose region lock for it

Edit : This originally came from PCMR reddit but PC gamer gave credit to polygon and wrote an article on it

[Jej]

What if the censoring scripts are its own file which can be replaced with the normal pirated version?

[Tracido]

Here's the direct link... http://kotaku.com/the-creator-of-hotline-miami-2-to-australians-just-pi-1679836694

So stupid this is the world today...

The DEVELOPERS having to promote this to just have a right to share ART.

Disgusting.

[Clan Wolf]

the point of paying for it, is this: you want to support the devs. if buying the 2nd game is banned in your country, torrenting it and to make up the difference just buying a bunch of copies of the first game. Doesnt exactly have the effect in mind of supporting.

Isnt quite the same, you support the devs. meaning you give the money to those who worked on it, those who worked on the 2nd game may not of worked on the 1st game. So if your buying copies of the 1st game to show your support, a portion of that profit doesnt go to the devs who only worked on the 2nd game.

so to do that, only way is to VPN to somewhere else and buy up keys at your convenience.

By now this should be protocol for if a game gets banned in your country, you know what to do.

unless the publisher tells us of paypal acc for us to 'donate' money into, i might email them and insist on it! wait for the game to be released though...

suppose the store page for australia will be removed by then. Be careful with your VPNs, valve dont exactly like you vpn location switching. At least don't do it with your main steam account.

[Jess]

TIME 2 PIRATE

[Hugoat]

Buy Hotline Miami a second time or in my case a third

["Bob" the Space Cadet]

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İlk olarak KuWanTum Binman tarafından gönderildi:

Can't Australians just trade for an uncensored gift version from someone in UK/US regions?

Nah steam will impose region lock for it

Edit : This originally came from PCMR reddit but PC gamer gave credit to polygon and wrote an article on it

This was the answer I was looking for. Didn't want to risk wasting 6 tf2 keys trading for a copy only to find that the game is unplayable... Thanks

[Applous]

I was just about to ask if someone could send me a copy of the game for a game in return. Man that sucks that it won't work. But are you certain it won't. Would love to play it, loved the first one to bits!

[Clan Wolf]

yeah not much point in anything other than piracy. suppose tyannys encourage it. thx gov! dont bother with vpn - aside from your ip they have your credit card information. it might be ok with paypal as its a 3rd party, provided you dont abuse the regional pricing