Mega Crit Games, You might want to read this

[I like doing frog Hugging :3]

So I'm honest here. I pirated your game a few days ago on a Site on the internet to try it and it is so extremely awesome and fun, that I now bought it just to support your awesome work. Call me a bad person for cracking it in general, but most games these days are just not keeping the promises they show in trailers etc...
And your work here did the exact opposite.

Please keep this awesome work up!

[Samseng Yik]

Yes.
Piracy often has majority of buyers as well.
It is the better demo than store description.

[Frosty the Pyro]

yeah piracy has an interesting dynamic on, well anything.

you basicly get three catagories
1. people who would have paid for if they couldnt pirate it instead (hurts the devs)
2. folks who would not have paid for it but will go ahead and pirate it (null impact)
3. folks who would not have paid for it, pirated it, and found they liked it enouph to pay for it (gain for the dev)

And then of course there is the free advertising pirating provides, which is sort of what cat 3 does, but some of the cat one and two folks will word of mouth an extra purchase from someone who just plain didnt care prior.

[az4a3l]

Piracy has a somewhat low effect compared to key resellers that basically steal money right out of the devs pockets by forcing them to provide full support for a game they receive not a single cent of profit while the reseller gets 100% profit by using stolen credit cards.

[Eriktion]

next time you could also buy the game - test it for less than 2 hours and just refund it on steam with the reason that you didnt like it or any other reason

always worked for me at least

[Jin]

Steam should generally just let you download any game for 2 hours, then it should ask you if you wanna keep playing pay for it. Makes it easier for customer and support alike. What you think? Global 2 hours on every game on Steam!

[CaptHardship]

Originally posted by Eriktion:

next time you could also buy the game - test it for less than 2 hours and just refund it on steam with the reason that you didnt like it or any other reason

always worked for me at least

FYI I got a warning from Steam about doing this. Probably based on how often you do it. I thought I was doing it at a non-abusive rate, especially considering their policy uses the words "maybe you played the title for an hour and just didn't like it." Based on those words, before the warning I was getting things I thought I probably wouldn't like, but worth trying and refunding if not. After the warning I went back to doing more research before buying, although I still sometimes (successfully) request refunds.

[Dawnbomb]

Originally posted by Jin:

Steam should generally just let you download any game for 2 hours, then it should ask you if you wanna keep playing pay for it. Makes it easier for customer and support alike. What you think? Global 2 hours on every game on Steam!

ummm... someone has been living under a rock ahaha! that is literally already a thing. it was implemented like last year, you can do upto 2 hours of a game on steam. after that, it's consitered fully bought and you have to go though applying for a refund. but before that, it's fully automatic. i think you have to have something like 8 paid for steam games and some hours on them first before you can access this steam feature, but yeah it's literally already a thing.

i use it myself sometimes.

[Jin]

Originally posted by Dawnbomb:

Originally posted by Jin:

Steam should generally just let you download any game for 2 hours, then it should ask you if you wanna keep playing pay for it. Makes it easier for customer and support alike. What you think? Global 2 hours on every game on Steam!

ummm... someone has been living under a rock ahaha! that is literally already a thing. it was implemented like last year, you can do upto 2 hours of a game on steam. after that, it's consitered fully bought and you have to go though applying for a refund. but before that, it's fully automatic. i think you have to have something like 8 paid for steam games and some hours on them first before you can access this steam feature, but yeah it's literally already a thing.

i use it myself sometimes.

Umm, maybe you should learn to read? I am aware you can BUY and then refund before 2 hours. But I want a global 2 hours DEMO, so NO PURCHASING required. So customer doesn't need to constantly buy and make a ticket that support staff has to approve. You go to, for example Fallout 4, you download it and can play it 2 hours, then you get kicked out of the game and asked to purchase it if you wish to continue playing.

[I like doing frog Hugging :3]

Originally posted by Jin:

Steam should generally just let you download any game for 2 hours, then it should ask you if you wanna keep playing pay for it. Makes it easier for customer and support alike. What you think? Global 2 hours on every game on Steam!

Thats an awesoe idea, I would really enjoy that

[Amor Plano]

i did the same, i ussually pirate games to try them cause nobodies gives a proper demo (or a demo xD). this game was just so fun that i had to pay it

[Dawnbomb]

Originally posted by Jin:

Originally posted by Dawnbomb:

ummm... someone has been living under a rock ahaha! that is literally already a thing. it was implemented like last year, you can do upto 2 hours of a game on steam. after that, it's consitered fully bought and you have to go though applying for a refund. but before that, it's fully automatic. i think you have to have something like 8 paid for steam games and some hours on them first before you can access this steam feature, but yeah it's literally already a thing.

i use it myself sometimes.

Umm, maybe you should learn to read? I am aware you can BUY and then refund before 2 hours. But I want a global 2 hours DEMO, so NO PURCHASING required. So customer doesn't need to constantly buy and make a ticket that support staff has to approve. You go to, for example Fallout 4, you download it and can play it 2 hours, then you get kicked out of the game and asked to purchase it if you wish to continue playing.

any company that would be stupid enough to do something like what your sugesting would go out of business, as they should. it drastically discriminates against some games. i literally can't even imagine how rampart crime would be if that happened, as if it's not already bad enough with bots...