He's pretty sure that some of his other games have been torrented, but because they were freeware, he had no issue with it.
His post appeared in the torrent listing for Hotline Miami in response to a user who complained that their Xbox 360 controller didn't work with the game, Söderström posted a link to a fix.Īs he was coding that patch, Polygon reached out to Söderström to find out why he'd reacted that way and how he feels about torrents.
24, 2012, the day after Hotline Miami was released, he offered the pirates help in a post on The Pirate Bay. It sucks.'Īnd yet, when the cash-strapped indie developer learned that his game was available as a torrent - and that some pirates were even complaining of bugs in the software they'd illegally downloaded - he did something unexpected. 'I've been broke the last couple of months. 'I don't really want people to pirate Hotline Miami, but I understand if they do,' Söderström wrote last week on Twitter.
Jonatan Söderström, the indie developer of Hotline Miami, isn't a fan of piracy, but that doesn't mean he's above helping pirates get the best experience possible.
