Clickbait title: That time a game developer encouraged piracy

[DJRWolf]

Don't say I did not warn you that I made the title click bait

 

So I was poking around some old game books I have when I came across my old Prima guide for XCOM: Terror From The Deep. I thumbed though it when I found a section (Page 144) where they talk about a MicroProse QA team member who suggested you can make money in game by building a base next to an alien colony and shooting down supply ships heading to it then selling what you loot. They also said it did not matter how many you shot down as the supply ships are on a set schedule.

 

TL;DR So Jack Sparrow type piracy in an ocean theme game and not Lime Wire type piracy.

[Lord Szechenyi]

What's encurged?

Did you mean encouraged?

[DJRWolf]

20 hours ago, Lord Szechenyi said:

What's encurged?

Did you mean encouraged?

That is what happens when you spend all of your proof reading time on the body and not the title.