{"id":134,"date":"2008-11-15T18:39:44","date_gmt":"2008-11-15T18:39:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/?p=134"},"modified":"2008-11-15T18:39:44","modified_gmt":"2008-11-15T18:39:44","slug":"82-of-world-of-goo-players-are-pirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2008\/11\/15\/82-of-world-of-goo-players-are-pirates\/","title":{"rendered":"82% of World Of Goo players are pirates?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to World Of Goo makers 2DBoy:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/2dboy.com\/2008\/11\/13\/90\/\">http:\/\/2dboy.com\/2008\/11\/13\/90\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>And yet, despite this, I&#8217;ve been reading comments on the web where people are hurling abuse at them. These are likely from people who pirated the game anyway.<\/p>\n<p>So these guys worked hard over 2 years (AFAIK) to make one of the best original indie games of the year, released it with a demo and no DRM at a good price, and then happened to mention in a comments thread once that 82% of the players stole their hard work, and yet they get insulted and abused for mentioning it.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;m sick of the attitude of some PC Gamers. Carry on pirating if you insist, but don&#8217;t have the cheek to hurl abuse at the people you are stealing from. As usual for daring to suggest something be done about piracy, I got a load of sarcastic insults and abuse from internet trolls today too.<\/p>\n<p>Seriously kids, grow up and get a job, then see how you feel when people take your work for free&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>According to World Of Goo makers 2DBoy: http:\/\/2dboy.com\/2008\/11\/13\/90\/ And yet, despite this, I&#8217;ve been reading comments on the web where people are hurling abuse at them. These are likely from people who pirated the game anyway. So these guys worked hard over 2 years (AFAIK) to make one of the best original indie games of<\/p>\n<p class=\"text-right\"><span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Continue Reading&#8230; 82% of World Of Goo players are pirates?<\/span><a class=\"btn btn-secondary continue-reading\" href=\"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/2008\/11\/15\/82-of-world-of-goo-players-are-pirates\/\">Continue Reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[8],"class_list":["post-134","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business","tag-piracy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=134"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/134\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=134"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=134"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.positech.co.uk\/cliffsblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=134"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}