{"id":120222,"date":"2017-08-28T10:35:37","date_gmt":"2017-08-28T08:35:37","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=120222"},"modified":"2017-08-28T10:36:28","modified_gmt":"2017-08-28T08:36:28","slug":"indie-developer-uploads-its-own-game-to-the-pirate-bay","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/120222-indie-developer-uploads-its-own-game-to-the-pirate-bay","title":{"rendered":"Indie developer uploads its own game to The Pirate Bay"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Game developer\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.acidwizardstudio.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Acid Wizard<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0has uploaded a safe, protected torrent of its survival-horror game Darkwood to The Pirate Bay.<\/p>\n<p>The developer\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/imgur.com\/a\/xVhDz\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\"><strong>made the decision<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0after a player asked for a refund, saying his parents would be upset when they saw the bill at the end of the month.<\/p>\n<p>Acid Wizard uploaded the full game to The Pirate Bay to allow gamers who could not afford it to play it.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cWe have just one request. If you like Darkwood and want us to continue making games, consider buying it in the future, maybe on a sale, through Steam, GOG, or Humble Store,\u201d it said.<\/p>\n<p>The studio urged players not to purchase the game through key reselling sites, as these resellers \u201cprofit at the developer\u2019s expense\u201d.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cPlease, please, don\u2019t buy it through any key reselling site. By doing that, you\u2019re just feeding the cancer that is leeching off this industry.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Darkwood is available on\u00a0<strong><a href=\"http:\/\/store.steampowered.com\/app\/274520\/Darkwood\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Steam<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0for R159.<\/p>\n<h4><strong>Now read:\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/mybroadband.co.za\/news\/internet\/225232-all-the-piracy-websites-which-isps-in-australia-must-block.html\" rel=\"bookmark\">All the piracy websites which ISPs in Australia must block<\/a><\/strong><\/h4>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Game developer\u00a0Acid Wizard\u00a0has uploaded a safe, protected torrent of its survival-horror game Darkwood to The Pirate Bay.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":226,"featured_media":102525,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[24984,24986],"class_list":["post-120222","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-pc","tag-acid-wizard","tag-darkwood"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120222","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/226"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=120222"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120222\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":120224,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/120222\/revisions\/120224"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/102525"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=120222"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=120222"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=120222"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}