{"id":3791,"date":"2009-04-17T11:16:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T09:16:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"five-out-of-six-demigod-players-are-pirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/3791-five-out-of-six-demigod-players-are-pirates","title":{"rendered":"Five out of Six Demigod players are pirates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>According to the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.examiner.com\/examiner\/x-3707-LA-Gaming-News-Examiner~y2009m4d16-Over-100K-pirate-Demigod-only-18K-in-actual-sales,\" target=\"_blank\">LA Examiner <\/a>, Demigod developer Stardock has announced that of the 120,000 users that have tried to play the game online in the past week, only 18,000 users have actually purchased the game.<\/p>\n<p>While we have to feel sorry for Stardock, we are also not surprised. Considering that Demigod is largely aimed at DOTA fans, which for the most part do not own a legitimate copy of Warcraft 3: The Frozen Throne, we can&rsquo;t help but feel that Stardock walked into this one.<\/p>\n<p>Aiming your product at an audience with a proven track record when it comes to piracy is not a good way to sell games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Only 18,000 of the 120,000 online Demigod players paid for it<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3791","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3791","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\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3791"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3791\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3791"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3791"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3791"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}