Remember Demigod? The game got leaked ahead of time and people pirated the shit out of it and overloaded its servers with illegitimate copies; at launch, their mp was swamped. while they struggled to get the servers to be able to host the hundreds of thousands of pirated copies trying to play, the reviewers tried it for a day and essentially went "game sux, mp sux, peace"
In that case i would have approved of a rehost to fix the unfairness of the pressured-for-instantaneous-press game review industry buuuut in this case not so much??
As I recall, the launch problem with Demigod was symptomatic of a problem with the netcode in that game, though. If you want to give a blank slate to every game which was leaked and/or pirated, that's going to be a long list. Launch a finished game, please, or expect bitching.
I'd probably be pissed off at Drug Wars or whatever if I believed that it was going to sell more than a few dozen copies. Twelve-man studio makes a few bucks with knockoff FPS, fine. It doesn't appear to have any kind of following at all, that I can see (the game's forum has five threads, total). If this is supposed to be some big PR coup, it doesn't seem to be working.
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