Ultrakill dev says it's fine to pirate his game if you don't have money to spare: 'Culture shouldn't exist only for those who can afford it'
Ultrakill dev says it's fine to pirate his game if you don't have money to spare: 'Culture shouldn't exist only for those who can afford it'
Spreading the word about a game you pirated and enjoyed is "at worst an equal trade," Hakita says.
I actually bought ultrakill but now I have an even bigger respect for the chad that is Hakita
How dare he make good games and have good opinions. I refuse, and will buy his game a second time out of spite.
This is how you effectively combat the interests trying to kill libraries, filesharing and the public commons in general. Continue normalizing the activity, as it makes law designed to attack it all the more odious and unworkable. The bad guys lose when cultural attitudes rally around free information exchange. The key to that is being public and vocal like the dev.
That's how you make people buy your game instead.
It's already been proven that piracy is a causal factor in more sales. Any self-interested dev should be promoting piracy of their game.
Damn, had zero interest before but now I'm gonna go out of my way to actually buy his game
Its really fucking good
Yea it's genuinely fucking amazing OP, play the demo if you want to try it out.
Ultrakill, Terraria, Crosscode and Hollow Knight are the only singleplayer games I've gone out of my way to buy after playing through their pirated copies.
I love the fact that he does not only speak of gaming piracy, but of general piracy in general. He talks about culture, and it's true, lack of culture is used to control the masses
It resembles the efforts of Archive.org and other culture-preservation driven websites/projects.
Internet is (or should be) our Library of Alexandria, where everyone is welcome —no matter their country, believes or financial situation— and have a feist on culture and knowledge like none other and for free. Games, art, books, cinema, Lemmy-like forums. You name it.
People in the future will be like:
"Pokémon? There's radio silence after the 3DS games. I think that Nintendo closed down by then."
"Ah, Ultrakill? Here. [points to some file in the repo] Still playable. Small dev from a brilliant indie scene."
I'm being kind of cheeky; it's reasonably possible that people in the future know that Nintendo games actually existed past the 3DS, they simply weren't preserved because their corporation got too greedy. In the meantime, game devs like Hakita are keeping their legacy alive.
With proton it runs like a charm for those who have Linux also!
Everyone working on Ultrakill is fucking amazing. You got a mix of trans artists who got into work with Ultrakill through gay hentai they drew of the game, a voice actor who posts memes on YT, and the main dev (Hakita, featured here) is a bi anti capitalist icon.
i got introduced to ultrakill precisely because of francis xie's v1 x gabriel smut
Amen to that.
I was playing the demo over and over before I finally got the full game this year.
It's ironic that when a dev says its ok to pirate their game, I feel a greater urge to purchase it legitimately. Maybe it's because you have to be a certain level of cool to say that.
Well, this one is moving up on my steam wishlist.
Intellectual property is a lie created to protect capitalist interests.
My opinion is that if you don't have not much money to spend into video games that's okay to pirate it, but try to encourage the creators by donating or just say thanks!
Ok. And?