In an interesting turn of events, point-and-click adventure game collection McPixel is being endorsed – by The Pirate Bay.
Creator Sos Sosowski decided to embrace the pirating community and dropped a number of gift codes for the game on the world’s most well-known torrent portal. Pirate Bay then tracked down Sosowski and started an endorsement called “The Promo Bay.”
Going to the Pirate Bay’s homepage now shows an ad for the game, which for this weekend is running the pay-what-you-like model adopted by indie developers in the past .
“I know that not everyone can afford entertainment, but everyone needs it,” reads the ad. “And even though I make games for a living, I am most happy just to see people enjoy them. So today, you can download a torrent of my game. And if you like it, throw some coins in my general direction.”
At time of writing the promo had sold over 100 copies at an average of $1.34 per copy. This doesn’t sound overly impressive, but this is a game many people probably didn’t know existed, and certainly weren’t going to pay for it. It’s a lot of publicity for the developer, and it’s hard to put a price on that.
If you have a couple of dollars to spare, the game has been relatively well-received by critics, and may just be the weirdest thing you play this year.
Source: Eurogamer
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“Started an endorsement called “The Promo Bay.””. The Promo Bay has been around long before McPixel. Also the full stop goes after the closing quotes 😉