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Ironclad Announces Torrent Division

By Craig Fraser on April 1, 2009 4:25:54 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

Craig Fraser

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Ironclad has just announced its plans to join the ranks of Pirate Bay and Demonoid.
"We felt it would be best to target legitimate and illegitmate customers at the same time," Ironclad's Craig Fraser states. "The lucrative advertising revenues generated on the torrent site should more than make up for our loss in pirated copies of our games, not to mention development costs are very low for the return. Should our pilot project go well, we may shift our full team to the new division, and take on a few DS games on the side." Blair Fraser adds, "We are finalizing an agreement with our partner in Novosibirsk, Russia, who will be looking after our European interests. We should have our servers active by the end of May of this year. PC development has been exciting for our team, but we felt the team was finally ready to move with the times."

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RooksBailey
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April 1, 2009 4:34:06 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

Wicked cool! 

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April 1, 2009 4:53:39 PM from Stardock Forums Stardock Forums

It'll probably still have draconian DRM. 

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-Ue_Carbon
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April 1, 2009 5:07:32 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

Gee Golly Mister!!! This is swell news!!!!!!

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April 1, 2009 5:08:17 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

April's Fool, I believe.

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April 1, 2009 5:19:32 PM from Stardock Forums Stardock Forums

Quoting Ravenholme,
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April's Fool, I believe.
Oh. 

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April 1, 2009 5:24:52 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

Oh. Indeed. Sorry guys but it wasn't convincing at all. for 3 reasons.

 

1) It's not a news article.

2) It's posted in the wrong forum

3) I thought it was a random user that posted this first sicne the message looks nothing like and official announcement.

4) I've grown over the years to expect this on april fools.

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April 1, 2009 5:35:43 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

I'm drunk but I gotta say this made me giggle ^^

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April 1, 2009 5:36:04 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

It's a good effort, Craig, but to be honest, the Vasari Nemesis was miles better

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April 1, 2009 5:43:41 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

I remember that terrifying Nemesis concept art

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April 1, 2009 6:45:12 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

Made me laugh. Torrent DRM!!!!

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April 1, 2009 6:56:26 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

yes. $.10 USD for every KB transferred.

affordable transfer limits packages starting at $10:

$10-max 50kbs download 10 KBs upload

$20-max 125KBs download 30 KBs upload

$50-max 1MBs download 200 KBs upload

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April 1, 2009 7:02:15 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

In all honesty though, I'd love it if there was a service in the US (there is one in Europe) that lets you pay a monthly subscription fee and then be able to download any game from their catalog. Obviously the catalog would have to be very current and extensive. I like to play lots of games, but few for a long time, and there are many games I'd like to play but don't because it gets to be an expensive habbit. A subscription service would be awesome to have. Basically like Netflix/Gamefly, only for PC games (in digital downloads)

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April 1, 2009 7:26:44 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums
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April 1, 2009 8:46:38 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

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April 1, 2009 8:53:09 PM from Sins of a Solar Empire Forums Sins of a Solar Empire Forums

So would buying from Impulse now be the morally wrong thing to do...???

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