For the pirated version of Alan Wake changed the hero

A month ago, Alan Wake for PC appeared in the Steam store. Remedy sent an original message to those who refuse to buy a license, and instead install an unlicensed copy. The message can be deciphered as follows: “Enjoy the game, guys!”.

In the pirated version, the protagonist wears a pirate bandage on his eye - and this is the only “copy protection” that the developers have implemented.

“We spent five years developing this game, a lot of sweat, blood and tears,” says Oskari Hakkinen, head of development, in an interview with Eurogamer . - I hope it will be perceived as a cult classic. We are a small team of 60 people. But some people are going to pay for the game, while others are not. In the end, it is important for us to please the maximum number of people. ”
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Oskari Hakkinen hopes that those who install the pirated version of Alan Wake will like it so much that they will want to play the game again, without the eye patch of the protagonist. Perhaps in the future they will buy something else. Even pirates spend money occasionally.

We can say that the special “pirated edition” Alan Wake is distributed according to the freemium model, which has been coming into fashion recently. Although here in the "pirated" version there are no restrictions, except for the blindfold, but the idea is the same. It is assumed that players will like the product and they will spend money on something else from the same developer.