It’s been a rather fun ride seeing how Minecraft has grown and morphed since the initial Alpha version, to where it is today with major mods and mod packs (Feed-The-Beast & Tekkit) and choice of alternative game launchers (MagicLauncher & MultiMC, both are helpful when modding the guts out of your copy of Minecraft).

Profit wasn’t pushed center forward at all. If you actually read the story, you would realize that nobody wants try before you buy anymore unless it’s the full, complete,and totally functional game. So the focus has shifted.

Now you get a fully functional game but with either “buy power ups for more action” or a hard limited number of levels, boards, or actions you can have happen before you must buy your way out of the box. Rovio is famous for this stuff, they have made a pot full of money on this model. The mobile gaming market lives and dies by these methods.

You can only get buyers remorse when you actually buy something, that’s not a common feeling around here anyway. Now people get pirated versions of things,often with flaws, errors,or missing parts and then write bad reviews, which is the point of the article.

Oh, and a side note for andy: When a single gamer developer says something, it’s “game dev” not “game devs”. Your title makes it sound like it’s something said by many, but you seem to be citing a single developer in a single case. I know you are trying hard to make piracy sound good, but you cannot broadbrush an industry based on the opinions of a single developer.