Hotline Miami developer to Australians "pirate it" - Polidicks

[quote]Following the Australian Classification Board's recent decision to refuse classification to Hotline Miami 2, effectively barring the game from sale in the country, designer Jonatan Söderström has a piece of advice for people affected by the decision: "Just pirate it!" Söderström's suggestion came in response to an e-mail from a concerned Hotline Miami fan, who asked if there was a way for him to obtain and pay for the game given the board's decision. "If it ends up being not released in Australia, just pirate it after release," Söderström wrote in reply. "No need to send us any money, just enjoy the game!" The response was subsequently screencapped, posted to reddit, and confirmed as authentic by representatives of Devolver Digital. "He’s said similar things in the past and yes, I can confirm he wants people to enjoy the game," a Devolver Digital PR rep told Ars. "That was him," Devolver tweeted by way of further confirmation through the fictional Fork Parker CFO account.[/quote] [t]http://i.imgur.com/Z84eDVa.png[/t] Source: [url]http://www.neogaf.com/forum/showthread.php?t=972794[/url]

Damn decent of the dev. Should set up something through GOG where people can get a code for Steam to get the Payday 2 bonus items, and then use GOG to circumvent Steam's DRM controls and region locks to allow people to legitimately buy it. Since even if people VPN'd or traded to get a Steam copy, Valve can elect to use a hard region lock that disables the game based on where you're connected from. Fuck the Australian censorship Nazis.

If ever a bro thing was said, that was it.

And if you still want to give the dev your dosh you could just gift people the first game.

[QUOTE=Grimhound;46943477]Damn decent of the dev. Should set up something through GOG where people can get a code for Steam to get the Payday 2 bonus items, and then use GOG to circumvent Steam's DRM controls and region locks to allow people to legitimately buy it. Since even if people VPN'd to get a Steam copy, Valve can elect to use a hard region lock that disables the game based on where you're connected from. Fuck the Australian censorship Nazis.[/QUOTE] I think it'd be easier to set it up through Humble Store. They'd probably get more from there too since you only pay 5% to the Humble guys versus the estimated 20-30% you pay to Valve.

This is mighty awesome of the guy. I was worried I wouldn't be able to get it legally.

[QUOTE=Mr Flexi;46943513]This is mighty awesome of the guy. I was worried I wouldn't be able to get it legally.[/QUOTE] Hopefully you'll be able to buy it if you're a Payday 2 fan because... [img]http://i.imgur.com/XENPgLf.png[/img]

Are the other commonwealths this much of a nanny state or is it just Australia

[QUOTE=BFG9000;46943522]Are the other commonwealths this much of a nanny state or is it just Australia[/QUOTE] Just Australia New Zealand hasn't given a shite about videogame censoring since Postal 2

[QUOTE=Korova;46943521]Hopefully you'll be able to buy it if you're a Payday 2 fan because... [url]http://i.imgur.com/XENPgLf.png[/url][/QUOTE] Fuck.

[QUOTE=BFG9000;46943522]Are the other commonwealths this much of a nanny state or is it just Australia[/QUOTE] I'd say we're more better off than South Africa or Zimbabwe tbh

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OtI3ghO4jZ8[/media]

I met one of the developers at a con once. If he is like the other devs then they are some of the chilliest people ever. I could tell the dude at the con was a massive stoner. Brown jacket, beanie, T-shirt, nose/ear pericings and tattoos everywhere, moderately long blond silky hair, swede as can be, etc.

I feel bad for australians, specially since now Steam made it impossible to trade for region blocked games.

The classifications board didn't give a shit when GTAV was released, but they're afraid their consumers are going to get frightened by 8-bit sex scenes. That doesn't make any sense.

Serious question, why do Australians allow this shit? Every year, I hear about classification boards fucking up. Surely, the people who were pissed off about games back in the 2000s are of legal voting age now? Is the classification board not a publicly owned organization?

[QUOTE=RichyZ;46944638]because everyone thought it was fixed when r18 was introduced[/QUOTE] Now that it's been demonstrably false, will something be done about it? If I recall correctly, this isn't the first time.

Will I be banned for warez though?

[QUOTE=Korova;46943521]Hopefully you'll be able to buy it if you're a Payday 2 fan because... [img]http://i.imgur.com/XENPgLf.png[/img][/QUOTE] How will you get these if you're Australian?

[QUOTE=Spectre1406;46944743]How will you get these if you're Australian?[/QUOTE] That's what I'm worried about. I'm sure they'll figure it out.

[QUOTE=Scratch.;46944674]Will I be banned for warez though?[/QUOTE] Since you're posting on an international site, probably.

[QUOTE=Spectre1406;46944743]How will you get these if you're Australian?[/QUOTE] Since the Jacket Character Pack says "Free access to", I'm guessing it'll be sold separately as a $5 DLC for those who didn't buy the special edition of HLM2. The mask pack, since it says exclusive you're probably shit out of luck unless HLM2 has cross-region gifting allowed and you get a foreigner to gift it to you.

the government can suck my balls they wont stop me playing it

[QUOTE=murple;46944875]the government can suck my balls they wont stop me playing it[/QUOTE] It's sad really, in the internet age refusing classification to a game like this does nothing to hurt the consumer who can pirate it anyway, all it does is hurt the developers who won't be able to make money from that area.

catcus is the coolest dev dude ever and you are wrong if you disagree with me. [editline]15th January 2015[/editline] btw where's the fucking werewolf asso and hot throttle tie ins?

[QUOTE=Korova;46944630]Serious question, why do Australians allow this shit? Every year, I hear about classification boards fucking up. Surely, the people who were pissed off about games back in the 2000s are of legal voting age now? Is the classification board not a publicly owned organization?[/QUOTE] I dunno what you mean by "Allow this shit". An American of all people should know how hard it is to stop the government from doing silly things involving peoples rights

[QUOTE=TacticalBacon;46944903]It's sad really, in the internet age refusing classification to a game like this does nothing to hurt the consumer who can pirate it anyway, all it does is hurt the developers who won't be able to make money from that area.[/QUOTE] oh don't get me wrong I do want to give these devs money I'm just sad I can't do it properly thanks to those cunts

[QUOTE=Scratch.;46944674]Will I be banned for warez though?[/QUOTE] He gave us permission Suck on that, mods B)

[QUOTE=Korova;46944630]Serious question, why do Australians allow this shit? Every year, I hear about classification boards fucking up. Surely, the people who were pissed off about games back in the 2000s are of legal voting age now? Is the classification board not a publicly owned organization?[/QUOTE] It's part of the government, but we don't actually have a say over who runs what part of the government. Also nobody cares enough to actually do anything, we got a R18+ rating for violence and that was enough for most people (Sexual and drug themes are still heavily restricted)

he's right just pirate this flash game