{"id":7030,"date":"2010-08-06T12:17:00","date_gmt":"2010-08-06T10:17:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"machinarium-developers-offer-a-brief-pirate-amnesty","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/pc\/7030-machinarium-developers-offer-a-brief-pirate-amnesty","title":{"rendered":"Machinarium developers offer a brief pirate amnesty"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><p>Indie developer Amanita Design, the brains behind the critically acclaimed robo-adventure title Machinarium, are offering those who pirated their game a chance to buy back some karma points. The title is being offered for a 75% reduced price of US$5 (\u00b1R36) &#8211; obviously this offer is open to all, and not just dirty pirates.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;We released the game DRM free which means it doesn\u2019t include any anti-piracy protection, therefore the game doesn\u2019t bother players with any serial codes or online authentication, but it\u2019s also very easy to copy it,&#8221; explained the Amanita team via their<a href=\"http:\/\/machinarium.net\/blog\/2010\/08\/05\/machinarium-pirate-amnesty\/\" target=\"_blank\"> design blog<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;Our estimate from the feedback is that only 5-15% of Machinarium players actually paid for the game. If you decide to buy the game, you can be sure you\u2019ll support directly the developers, not any big publisher or distributor.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Even if you aren&#8217;t a pirate looking for redemption, R36 is a fantastic price for this smashing title. Machinarium asks gamers to guide a little robot through his robotic world, on a quest to be reunited with his robo-lover. Along the way he uncovers a sinister plot and has to use all his wits to save the day. The game is primarily puzzle oriented, features a catchy soundtrack, and is full of endearing little robotic characters.<\/p>\n<p>Interested gamers should read MyGaming&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/news\/reviews\/4900-Machinarium.html\" target=\"_blank\">Machinarium review<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>To celebrate the sales promotion, Amanita&#8217;s Tomas Dvorak composed a <a href=\"http:\/\/machinarium.net\/blog\/data\/pirates\/machinarium_pirate_amnesty.mp3\" target=\"_blank\">song<\/a>, available for free. Those who purchase the game are also entitled to a digital download copy of the game&#8217;s soundtrack. The special runs until August 12.<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0<\/p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Indie developers hard hit by illegal sharing offer pirates a chance to redeem themselves<\/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-7030","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7030","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=7030"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7030\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7030"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7030"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7030"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}