Clever pirates...

A few days ago a new game was released, Game dev Tycoon, I don't know much about these kind of games, I think that you are a game developer and have to make a successful company, or something like that that involves making money in the game.

One interesting thing I heard is that you pass through all the history of video games, from the commodore 64 to the PS4, and here is where it get's really cool, the developers of this game released a pirated version that they put on a torrent site, the main difference is that when you get to the era of digital distribution you make less profit per game, making it more difficult to get to your goals, this doesn't happen on the retail version.

I found it pretty clever from the developers doing this, make them see their part of the history on making games, and that pirating does indeed affect to some degree retail sales.