My takeaway from the GTA6 trailer was, I can't stand any of these characters, I'll never go near this game.

I pirated it too back then, and bought two copies years later. Sent them an email when I did so and got this reply from Ron Carmel almost exactly 10 years ago (2013-12-18):

> thanks, daniel! tons of people play world of goo without paying for it, and we're ok with it. we think that sometimes buying the game makes sense (when you can afford it and it doesn't feel like a big expense) and sometimes it doesn't (when you can't get access to a payment system, when you're poor, or if you're living in a place where the price of the game sounds outrageous).

> anyway, appreciate your support now, and glad you are enjoying it!

> ron

That's a pretty incredible amount, because there was a point where there were indie bundles making headlines every week and World of Goo was featured in every single bundle imaginable. I feel like every person who played games 15 years ago bought World of Goo intentionally or accidentally in some form at least 10 times.

We may be able to decrease that just a tiny bit. I did buy it legit, twice, but its a pain in the ass to keep a track of whats going on with licensing, which platform do i have licenses on? What platform did i get migrated to without knowledge or consent? Etc. but it is a nice game to come back to every now and then. So i dont buy it anymore but when i feel like playing i pirate it, i figure i own it on at least two platforms already, should be ok. If others like me exist, then the high piracy numbers might in part be a condemnation of drm and another part high praise to the replayability of the game.

Few other games get this much revisitation from me. Warcraft 3 used to until blizz stope that from me and forced me into their "remaster"

As I remember it the article was quite interesting notably because it also compared another similar category game released around the same time that chose DRM and yet had similar piracy ratios.

I pirated it, liked it, then bought it three times (one copy for Wii and another for Linux I think and then later for iOS). I do feel times have changed. Not just because I have more disposable income, but the UX of buying digital games has improved massively (both for PC with Steam, on mobile app stores and on consoles).

I bought the physical CD back then and still have it but would have to go digging for a CD drive if I were to ever need to reinstall it. Thankfully the code has been stable over all these years and it still works as well as the day I installed it.

I paid for it and appreciated that it was released drm free. It still works!

The only effective "fix" is by using Denuvo. Are you hoping that World of Goo2 has Denuvo?

i remember world of goo being one of the bits of the tip of the iceberg of indie games taking off too. maybe even one of the first humble bundles

There are at least four brand new mechanics compared to the original, as per the trailer video:

- terrain deformation

- liquid goo

- liquid terrain (lava)

- goo cannons

It came to iPad a year before iPhone likely for that reason. Maybe the smaller screen needed a zoom-in feature?

It was the perfect Wii game. At least that's how I remember it.

I liked World of Goo a lot, but Little Inferno feels it's just "throwing random shit together". (Arguably some may find throwing random shit fun)

Human Resource Machine + 7 Billion Humans too.

It's a puzzle game so there's only so far you can go before you watching someone else play it.

In that vein, you can watch people play to see how to do it. I have to admit that in this case, it's not just knowing, you have to be able to execute it in a timely manner too.

From what I can tell, it's because the original game was not updated for newer versions of Android. I went to the Play Store, switched to my older Google account, and found it in "manage apps" by switching to "not installed", selecting the "games" filter, and scrolling to the bottom, where World of Goo (the original) says "not available for device". Tapping it shows the listing, where it says "Your device isn't compatible with this version"

Google Play used to show when an app was last updated. This appears to longer be the case. However a reviewer says it has been "abandoned since 2013", which explains why Google Play won't let me play it on a Pixel 6a, with an Android version 10 years newer.

Android just doesn't have the backwards compatibility of Windows or Linux.

> Netflix. Not only it stole my bought app from me

Wow I didn't know this is possible / legal.

How is this possible? Are google plays "purchases" just rental agreements in disguise?

I suspected as much, but it sounds like something that shouldn't be possible or rather, something that shouldn't be done.

I hang out with indie game devs and there's a running joke that it's now possible for indies to sell their soul to corporations. Just sell Netflix exclusive rights to your (mobile?) game. It's no longer a thing limited to SaaS!

Netflix did something fairly shady with Hades a month ago: https://kotaku.com/hades-netflix-iphone-free-android-1851016...

The other running joke with acquisitions is that they can buy your app but you can always just build a similar app. I thought the timing of the World of Goo 2 release is a bit of a coincidence, but maybe I'm just connecting the dots wrong.

I believe you, but... Are you going to the Purchases section of Google Play Store, or just using the main search?

Installation worked for me just now on my European Samsung Phone with Android 13. Though, I had to go to the app-lib to find it, the search only showed the Netflix Remaster-Version. Maybe you just didn't found it in the list?

I bought it on Steam at launch. Do I not own it anymore either?

It originally didn't, but it's part of the Netflix subscription. Someone said there's the premium version out there but I don't see it.