近日，獨立遊戲《Runeveil》的開發商 dicehit 直言，與其在非官方授權渠道購買遊戲兌換碼，玩家不如直接去玩盜版，等遊戲打折時再補票更划算。
For those who do not know, sites like this sell the codes we sent out for free to get content on our game. We do not get content and our good will is abused this way. If any of our games are too expensive for you and you are going to use a code site, just pirate it.
因為這些渠道所售的兌換碼，大多是官方此前免費贈予媒體、內容創作者等人士的版本，本意是用於製作內容、幫助遊戲擴大曝光。一旦玩家從這類渠道購入，開發商實際拿不到任何分成。
「最讓我惱火的是，我發出去的兌換碼本是為了讓更多人有機會接觸到這款遊戲，結果卻被倒手牟利。因為那個買家本來是打算花錢買遊戲的，而我花了錢、時間和心血做出來的東西，卻沒收到一分錢。」開發商如此表示。
Woke up and this post blew wow, a couple things to address: 1- we are NOT the devs of restory, but i understand why you would think that. I said we because we are also devs, we made runeveil, and thats the game i was talking about. This is just an issue that bothers me so i QRTd the post when i saw it. I wrote the post at night with 300 followers, i did not pay attention to the wording that much ahahaha 2- I do not say PIRATE games. Most indie studios are either self funded OR the funding is in bad deals, so they need games to at least make some money to survive and keep working. What i am saying is, if you cannot afford full price, instead of buying a key for half price, pirate the game and keep that money, it is literally the same for the devs. You can spend that money when the game is on sale or something else. 3- Of course a lot of the keys are legit, but at the same time a lot are not. When my game is pirated i only feel like i missed a potential customer because they were a cheap person OR they had no money or the game was too expensive for them. I am still not happy but i am not angry. When my keys which i send out in hopes for my game to be seen are SOLD and made a profit from, that what makes me angry. Because the person who bought it was going to spend money and i receieved nothing from my product which i spent money and time and effort on 4- We can always deactivate keys BUT i want people who reviewed my game and enjoyed it to keep the game. It is a lot of work and effort to go 1 by 1 for the keys and see which ones are activated and which ones are not. Its not very feasible because we are 4 people actively working on titles. Finally if you like deckbuilders, check out Runeveil, link in bio
