So I own a legal copy of Game Dev Tycoon that was bought from the main game site and then activated on steam (and installed from there). Now I just got an event where they said that Piracy was happening to my games and the only choice at the event was : - ( . I googled this and found out that this was the result from pirateing the game.
I can send receipt to a moderator to prove my legal acquisition of the game.
Any ideas on how to fix this?
On a sidenote I never pirated the game before buying it so this is not the result from pirateing it before buying.
Here’s a link to my Steam account
And here’s a link to my games list
The event happens on random, but in the pirated version, there is a bigger chance of getting it, and going bankrupt.
The legal version does have an event that relates to piracy but it gives you options to react to it. The piracy event in the ‘cracked’ version only has a :-( button and does not give you any options.
Unless you see this exact message, you are safe:
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First I got an event where they gave me the option to sue or warn pirates then I got the exact event in that image.
Can you take a screenshot of the in-game menu and post it here? (where the Load/Save buttons are).
Are you using any mods?
Thanks, I can confirm that you don’t have the version with the active piracy flag. When I implemented said flag I made it so that the ‘v’ in the version number is capitalized in the main menu. Since yours is lower case the flag is definitely not active.
It should be impossible for you to get the exact same message as posted above. Since it’s far more likely (and happened many times before) that you see the normal piracy event I’d ask you to double check this and to post a screenshot of the event, in case it is the same.
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This happened to me as well with my legal Steam copy, and only choice available was the smiley. This only happened once and I thought maybe one of the mods I installed might have added the event. I still have the mods installed but the event hasn’t reoccured. Just an odd random one-timey thing…
That’s a event that lets you know that people are stealing your game and you have 2 choices. Sue them or warn them.
If you choose sue them, you will lose fans.
Even strange, I thought it was impossible to get the piracy message that the only option there is has a : - ( in a legal copy of the game.