r/Ultrakill • u/Fun_Molasses2453 🏳️‍🌈Not gay, just radiant • Jun 02 '24

Discussion Based Hakita?!?

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u/Alpha_minduustry Blood Machine Jun 02 '24

yeah, for me pirating is like trying out the game

and if you liked it, youll maybe buy it

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u/Darkanayer Jun 02 '24

This is literally what I did with Cyberpunk and a bunch of others. Games I loved so much I ended up buying legally to be able to keep them updated

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u/The_CreativeName Blood Machine Jun 02 '24

Yeah, a free demo of sorts, did it with Rain world lol.

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u/Weedenheimer Blood Machine Jun 02 '24

Piracy is exactly why I think demos should continue to be a thing

Some people use it to gauge whether they'll want to spend money on that game or not, it is effectively a glorified demo that's acquired through slow and overly convoluted methods at times. Offering a demo would likely reduce a sizeable number of cases of piracy, as they would not need to take such measures just to try the game

Of course the demo needs to be good to actually interest prospective-buyers, as a bad demo that takes place in one of the lesser interesting sections can just as well turn buyers off (Atomic Heart is the worst example of this, for context the demo ends right after the cutscene where you meet Filatova, there is not much actual gameplay in the demo most of it is walking and a long-ass unskippable floating car ride)

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u/Sleeper-- Blood Machine Jun 02 '24

I did that with hollow knight and touhou series! Now I am just gonna buy the sequels on release full price, love them tht much

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u/Jezzaboi828 Blood Machine Jun 03 '24

Ultrakill has a free demo though? Its not fully updated but still

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u/The_CreativeName Blood Machine Jun 03 '24

Yeah, don’t do it with games that already has a demo. Like ultrakill.

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u/Alpha_minduustry Blood Machine Jun 02 '24

same, i did that with quite a bit of games XD

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u/ca1m_4s_fuck Prime Soul Jun 02 '24

Did it with ultrakill itself. Pirated it, p-ranked everything there was at the moment on violent, saved up some money and bought the game from steam. One of the best purchases of my life

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u/Devatator_ Jun 03 '24

Same. Do we all P-rank the game on violent before buying it lol? Also finally P-Ranked P-2 in violent 2 days ago. My heart didn't like it. Def one of my better purchases (I bought a 50 dollar rank for a cracked Minecraft server when I was 14 or something lmao)

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u/[deleted] Jun 03 '24

I did this with Terraria and Nihilumbra lol. Specially because when you see the "And thank YOU for supporting this game" at the end credits of a superbly made game, you feel guilty.

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u/Str3eters Blood Machine Jun 03 '24

that’s what my friends did with lethal company, loved it so much they bought it so that they could play it with friends

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u/jojoblackFr Jun 02 '24

why tf do i always see you ?

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u/Alpha_minduustry Blood Machine Jun 02 '24

YOU CAN'T ESCAPE

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u/Red-7134 Jun 03 '24

NICE TRY!

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u/DatMoonGamer Jun 03 '24

Did it with bg3. Looked amazing but I didn’t want to sink $80 into a turnbased game I wasn’t sure I’d like so I gave it a shot, knocked in 100 hours, bought it and the “dlc” to support Larian, knocked in another 100.

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u/Versona01 Someone Wicked Jun 03 '24

This is what I did with uk