PC steals an xbox exclusive LITERALLY 0_0 *Continuation of the story*

UPDATE.

Ska Studios officially anounced today that a PC port is being in development for The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile. :P

PC GAMER

The Dishwasher: Vampire Smile, a sidescrolling, super-violent Xbox Live Arcade game released in 2011, has made the jump to PC by a somewhat unorthodox route: a Russian hacker pirated it, cracked it out of its Xbox shell, and released it into the wild to run free. :o

A hacker by the name Barabus posted to the GameDev.ru forums that he was releasing the game because, by ignoring the PC platform, developers Ska Studios were forefitting their chance to earn money from the game. After all, if they wanted to earn money, he writes, then the game would be issued on all available platforms. If the game came out on PC officially, then this thread would not exist. :o

Later in the thread, he added, This is not piracy. This is restoration of justice.

Interestingly, this seems to annoy me a lot more than it annoyed Ska Studios. Founder James Silva told Eurogamer Im totally giving the guy the benefit of the doubt he probably didnt mean to come across quite the way he did with that restoration of justice stuff. Skas other member, artist Michelle Juett, came closer to calling this what it was: I just see him as the overly-entitled gamer saying I deserve this because I want it! She did note, though, that the hacked port of the game was kind of impressive.

Make your wish list of ports that need to be stolen :P

LOL at the idiot trying to justify it.

"I just see him as the overly-entitled gamer saying 'I deserve this because I want it!"

Totally agree

"it's ok to steal if you REALLY want something!"locopatho

If they where smart they would hire this guy to make a PC port and make a bunch of money on it.

INDIE games sell very very well on PC.

Maybe they were still planning on doing a pc port? There's a bunch of XBLA games that came out way later on pc. Almost all of them actually.

Hermits pirating. What else is new.freedomfreak

This is a new level of pirating. :o Nobody´s safe anymore. 

Resorting to piracy, really?

[QUOTE="freedomfreak"]Hermits pirating. What else is new.jhonMalcovich

This is a new level of pirating. :o

[QUOTE="freedomfreak"]Hermits pirating. What else is new.jhonMalcovich

This is a new level of pirating. :o

Not really. Basically it's just emulating a single game. That's probably how the hacking works.

"it's ok to steal if you REALLY want something!"locopatho

Came into this thread hoping it was a release date for State of Decay for PC, so bummed right now.

This is restoration of justice.

????

Wtf if devs didn't want on PC that's there choice. This is still 100% piracy if any1 downloads this game for free.

That's Russia for you.

This is restoration of justice.

????

Wtf if devs didn't want on PC that's there choice. This is still 100% piracy if any1 downloads this game for free.

PCgameruk

1) Depending on legislation of the country you are downloading from. 

2) I don´t know if this can be considered piracy  because it doesn´t harm official sales and the game was never intended to be on PC anyway. It´s more like mod.

This is a quite grey situation.

Dem pie-ratez. Stealing tem gamez.

I swear, gamers today are so freaking entitled rilpas

[QUOTE="PCgameruk"]

This is restoration of justice.

????

Wtf if devs didn't want on PC that's there choice. This is still 100% piracy if any1 downloads this game for free.

jhonMalcovich

1) Depending on legislation of the country you are downloading from. 

2) I don´t know if this can be considered piracy  because it doesn´t harm official sales and the game was never intended to be on PC anyway. It´s more like mod.

This is a quite grey situation.

In communist states, perhaps. ;)

And even those persecute piracy to an extent.

[QUOTE="PCgameruk"]

This is restoration of justice.

????

Wtf if devs didn't want on PC that's there choice. This is still 100% piracy if any1 downloads this game for free.

jhonMalcovich

1) Depending on legislation of the country you are downloading from. 

2) I don´t know if this can be considered piracy  because it doesn´t harm official sales and the game was never intended to be on PC anyway. It´s more like mod.

This is a quite grey situation.

Also it's piracy if you the game was never released for free or intended to be free by the owners of the trademark, it's like taking iOS and putting it on a PC rather than buy an iPhone, it does affect sales(I suppose) and Apple never said iOS could go on PC(because they own it entirely and decide where it can and cannot go).

[QUOTE="rilpas"]I swear, gamers today are so freaking entitled JohnF111

I agree as well, sad thing is I'm the only person in my group of friends that doesn't pirate.

it does not matter to me what the justification is.

i'm still not going to steal it.

who wants to download some viruses!

Yeah, it's not right... but it's pretty damn impressive. That guy is gonna have a bright future somewhere in the industry. santoron

russian crime syndicate

What I'm wondering is if this guy opened the gates to Xbox 360 emulation.

The system is already almost 8 years old so about time something happened in this direction...

[QUOTE="locopatho"]"it's ok to steal if you REALLY want something!"dotWithShoes

Came into this thread hoping it was a release date for State of Decay for PC, so bummed right now.

Ballroompirate

No doubt, this game would RULE on pc. Only negatives I have to say about it from playing it today, is that its rough around the edges (Low FPS in some parts, some zombies glitch threw things), other than that though its alot better than I expected. A PC version would be even better.

Just hope it sells well so they do there next game with coop.

What a time for zombie fans! The Last Of Us coming out soon, Dayz Standalone comign soon, State Of Decay just came out and Project Zomboid is almost fully finished (still fun even in alpha stage).

All I could ask for now is a confirmation for a Walking Dead season 2 from Telltale :P

how classless

[QUOTE="jhonMalcovich"]

[QUOTE="PCgameruk"]

This is restoration of justice.

????

Wtf if devs didn't want on PC that's there choice. This is still 100% piracy if any1 downloads this game for free.

JohnF111

1) Depending on legislation of the country you are downloading from. 

2) I don´t know if this can be considered piracy  because it doesn´t harm official sales and the game was never intended to be on PC anyway. It´s more like mod.

This is a quite grey situation.

Also it's piracy if you the game was never released for free or intended to be free by the owners of the trademark, it's like taking iOS and putting it on a PC rather than buy an iPhone, it does affect sales(I suppose) and Apple never said iOS could go on PC(because they own it entirely and decide where it can and cannot go).

Ideally, the company should officially release it, seeing as how easy it was ported, now that it's on pc there are no other substantially lucrative methods on cashing in on this product than by officially releasing it, unless they want to set up a donate page.

I swear, gamers today are so freaking entitled rilpas

I don't know if it's a "restoration of justice" if it causes this to happen in the same day.

Tin foil hats for everyone.

[spoiler] GFWL version confirmed going by the article. [/spoiler]

PS2 and PZ2!

[QUOTE="Ballroompirate"]

Came into this thread hoping it was a release date for State of Decay for PC, so bummed right now.

kozzy1234

No doubt, this game would RULE on pc. Only negatives I have to say about it from playing it today, is that its rough around the edges (Low FPS in some parts, some zombies glitch threw things), other than that though its alot better than I expected. A PC version would be even better.

Just hope it sells well so they do there next game with coop.

What a time for zombie fans! The Last Of Us coming out soon, Dayz Standalone comign soon, State Of Decay just came out and Project Zomboid is almost fully finished (still fun even in alpha stage).

All I could ask for now is a confirmation for a Walking Dead season 2 from Telltale :P

When is Zomboid doing their pre release thing on steam?

Also TWD season 2 should be out sometime this year if the IGN rumors are true

This is the power of the master race people

Now devs can't use the excuse "We don't want people to pirate our game" when they are asked why they didn't release the game for the PC along side with the cosoles.

It's going to get pirated anyways so you might as well release the game for PC + consoles and make more money off the people who purchase their games.

Now devs can't use the excuse "We don't want people to pirate our game" when they are asked why they didn't release the game for the PC along side with the cosoles.

It's going to get pirated anyways so you might as well release the game for PC + consoles and make more money off the people who purchase their games.

nutshell163

Sheit...

I do hope this becomes a trend.

[QUOTE="nutshell163"]

Now devs can't use the excuse "We don't want people to pirate our game" when they are asked why they didn't release the game for the PC along side with the cosoles.

It's going to get pirated anyways so you might as well release the game for PC + consoles and make more money off the people who purchase their games.

WilliamRLBaker

Not sure what you were trying to say.  I'll just post this as a reply.

All games get pirated on all systems.  The dev's job is to provide a product people are willing to pay for in the face of that fact.

The only good reason a dev has, in my opinion, to keep a game exclusive from PC is the system they are selling the game on payed them to keep it exclusive.  The "We don't want people to pirate our game" is a stupid reason not to sell on multiple platforms.