"Please pirate it because none of us work at the company that owns this anymore": Dev of stylish skating shooter marks its 2-year anniversary with a call for piracy

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Game is called Rollerdrome and their wish is my command!
- Never heard of it before, but now I know what I'm doing this evening.
Same thing for Disco Elysium.
- Disco Elysium was bought? They will probably inject it with microtransactions and some other bs. Anyway... playing that game was a rollercoaster of emotions.
  
  Nah, the people who made the game were laid off, no money goes to them if you buy it
  
  It wsn't bought, exactly. The publisher pulled a fast one on the devs a|ter DE's success. There's a good report on this by people make games on youtube.
  
  Not exactly, but it's an interesting story
- It's a lot more complicated than that and I suggest you watch the People Make Games investigation on the subject to get a clearer idea of the issues.
  Edit: link: https://youtu.be/JGIGA8taN-M?si=EaOGBoM0FXFS2pSu
  
  There are other videos on the internet about this, but basically PMG have done a terrible job here. One person is accused of serious corporate misconduct, and the others have allegations of being hard to work with, and PMG effectively treats them as equal, not even realising that the reason maybe some people were hard to work with was because of forced labour from the guy also doing the corporate misconduct.
  They've just not done a great job overall here.
  
  Please don't recommend the PMG investigation.
I own it because at the time I was supporting Roll7, one of my favorite indie devs of all time.
Roll 7 game that deserve to be played:
Olli Olli
Olli Olli 2
Rollerdrome
Olli Olli World (if it can be played offline)
- Loved both Olli Olli games on the Vita. Fun times.
Sick. I've had Rollerdrome on my wishlist for a while now, but have never seen a good sale, nor found myself with the free time and desire to play it on the spot to demand a full price purchase. I will gladly pirate and experience this now.
I mean, fuck Take2, I'd rather be able to hand these people money for a good game, but in lieu of being able to do so, I am happy to oblige their request.
Based.
Release the source maybe?
Anti Commercial-AI license
- They don't own the game that they made
  
  And sometimes even if you own the game it uses some licensed software that prevents you from releasing it without going through every single line and scrubbing every reference.
- Maybe they can "accidentally" leak it?

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