Video game pirates appear to be making a rare effort to pay for Control Resonant, in order to support its developer Remedy.
Control Resonant launched today for PC, PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S and, somewhat inevitably, cracked copies of the game are already circulating online. But among the threads pointing people to illegal copies, there appears to be a concerted effort among some video game fans to support Control Resonant's development team.
Remedy is well known as the maker of Max Payne, Alan Wake, Control, and Quantum Break, but its games often find relatively niche audiences. Fans of the studio love Remedy's offbeat stories and often dark humor, as well as its typically high quality bar. But its past few launches have struggled to sell, with Alan Wake 2 taking over a year to turn a profit, and new content for multiplayer experiment FBC: Firebreak ended in less than a year.
In response to fan uncertainty over Remedy's future, and a growing sense that the studio really needs Control Resonant to be a success, there are now numerous messages on game piracy forums and reddit from pirates suggesting they will make an exception for this game, and actually open up their wallet.
"One of the very few games I'm going to be buying, Remedy are on the brink of bankruptcy, this is their make or break title, I love their games and gotta do what I can to keep them afloat," wrote one fan.
"I wasn't planning to buy it but now I feel like I should," reads one reply.
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