Russian studio recommends illegal download of your own game

Due to the current events in Ukraine, it is difficult for Russian players to acquire conventionally video games. To earn money is currently practically impossible for Russian developer studios on Steam, after all, the platform has set all transactions to Russia, Belarus and Ukraine. In the course of the current situation, "Four Quarzes" was asked how to support the Russian Indie Studio behind the game Loop Hero Support. The answer of the studio is: Get our game via Torrent. So you do not want to earn money with the game.

• "Hisst the pirate flag"
• What is Loop Hero?

"Hisst the pirate flag"

The questions about possible purchase options on the Russian social media platform VK answered the team promptly with a link to a torrent page. Also on the question of whether one should send the studio maybe Donations, one answered with the words "nothing is wrong to torrents". Torrents or Torrent clients are a system that uses users and users in parallel files and upload them and often used for illegal data exchange.

Torrents are often used for pirated copies, accordingly, the call to the pirate flag in the post office. Why the studio pronounces the piracy of your own product and does not seek an alternative, is currently unknown. Kotaku asked the studio for a comment, but has not received an answer.

For security reasons, in the course of the posts, the use of VPNs was also called in this context. Four Quarters talks about the post, one should hurt the pirate flag. The studio, which is clearly positioned at the end of February on Twitter against the war, is relatively good according to its own indication. Instead, you should send the support friends and families who really need it.

What is Loop Hero?

Loop Hero (Buy Now 14.99 €) is a 2021-published genre mix in the retro look, which we rated relatively well in our test at that time. Also on metacritic , the game with 82 out of 100 points has a relatively good average rating. The Rogue Lite combines a wide variety of gameplay mechanics, such as a card game system, and has previously been a respect for Four Quarters with two million copies sold on Steam. The game is available for the PC and the Nintendo Switch.

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