Anodyne promotes itself on The Pirate Bay, creators rake in over $12K

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This past weekend the two man dev team of Sean "seagaia" Hogan and Jonathan Kittaka followed in the footsteps of Sos Kaminski's McPixel and promoted their action RPG Anodyne on The Pirate Bay, a notorious site that allows users to "share" games i.e. download pirated copies of them.
The developers made over $12,000 in 72 hours by doing this. Wait, what?
Hogan goes over the financial aftermath of the promotion in excruciating detail on his blog, but among the most startling facts is that the promotion only cost a mere $7 to put on, which went entirely to paying hosting provider Nearlyfreespeech.net for bandwidth. "There were no other costs," noted Hogan. Not bad for raking in over 12 grand.
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