best piracy joke

93.6% pirated copies doesn't mean 93.6% loss in sales :)

Wouldn't Stardock be bankrupt years ago?

Ooga Booga, an old Dreamcast game based on fighting other people by throwing shrunken heads at them, had copy-protection that, if you loaded it up and it detected it was pirated, would cause a big dancing pirate to appear on the screen and say "AHOY THERE, WHALE-BOY."

I thought it was awesome.

(When it was cracked, the crackers left it in because it was so funny -- they just let you push a button to continue past it.)

The true irony is that they pirated their game (idea) in the first place.

sad that those pirates didn't even get the hint. If I would steal a game about making games, and I'd get a game over because of piracy I'd feel the sting.

The funny thing is the devs are the only ones that bothered to upload their shitty game to TPB

Very nice. They did what most pirates want: released a demo version that can be downloaded easily. I think that their error was that they didn't make that message would after a while open a web browser with their store so that people would get a hint.

Really nice idea, the gained my support doing this, I tried the demo too and I think I want that game :D

Still perfer the one garry did :P