{"id":44391,"date":"2012-09-09T08:00:07","date_gmt":"2012-09-09T06:00:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=44391"},"modified":"2012-09-10T13:45:01","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T11:45:01","slug":"pirate-bay-endorses-indie-game-mcpixel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/44391-pirate-bay-endorses-indie-game-mcpixel","title":{"rendered":"Pirate Bay endorses indie game McPixel"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an interesting turn of events, point-and-click adventure game collection McPixel is being endorsed \u2013 by The Pirate Bay.<\/p>\n<p>Creator Sos Sosowski decided to embrace the pirating community and dropped a number of gift codes for the game on the world\u2019s most well-known torrent portal. Pirate Bay then tracked down Sosowski and started an endorsement called \u201cThe Promo Bay.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Going to the Pirate Bay\u2019s 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 .<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I know that not everyone can afford entertainment, but everyone needs it,&#8221; reads the ad. &#8220;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.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>At time of writing the promo had sold over 100 copies at an average of $1.34 per copy. This doesn\u2019t sound overly impressive, but this is a game many people probably didn\u2019t know existed, and certainly weren\u2019t going to pay for it. It\u2019s a lot of publicity for the developer, and it\u2019s hard to put a price on that.<\/p>\n<p>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.<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/v0FLuVkk8UI\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a title=\"Eurogamer\" href=\"http:\/\/www.eurogamer.net\/articles\/2012-09-08-mcpixel-is-the-first-game-endorsed-by-the-pirate-bay\" target=\"_blank\">Eurogamer<\/a><\/h5>\n<p><strong>Related articles<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong><a title=\"Downloading on torrents? You are being watched!\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/news\/44348-downloading-on-torrents-you-are-being-watched.html\">Downloading on torrents? 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