[brazzy]

I very much doubt that GOG makes enough on such old titles to justify thorough QA.

And I absolutely fault the developera for it, because it's a stupid, counterproductive thing to do - if nobody knows it happens because the game is pirated, it will just get a reputation for being buggy and deter honest buyers just as much as pirates. So why do it? To secretly "get back" at the pirates?

[paulryanrogers]

Perhaps they could have made it slightly more obvious, especially after some threshold or lifetime date.

I think it's a sensible approach to discourage piracy. Consider the irony when pirates of Game Dev Tycoon find their virtual games fail due to piracy: https://www.eurogamer.net/game-dev-tycoon-forces-those-who-p...