"Please pirate it because none of us work at the company that owns this anymore": Dev of stylish skating shooter marks its 2-year anniversary with a call for piracy

It's Rollerdrome's second anniversary, and one of its developers has encouraged new players to pirate it instead of giving money to the publisher that reportedly shut down the studio.

Rollerdrome, if you're unfamiliar, is an absolute rollercoaster in all the best ways - part skating platformer, part third-person shooter, it effortlessly carved out a space in 2022 as one of the coolest games of the year. The studio behind the effort, OlliOlli series developer Roll7, was allegedly shuttered earlier this year in May by Take-Two, as its CEO received a $26 million pay rise.

Now, user interface/experience designer Anisa Sanusi marks Rollerdrome's two-year anniversary by requesting people pirate the critically acclaimed game rather than buy it. Why? It's simple: every Rollerdrome sale sends money straight to Take-Two rather than the developers who actually made the game. 

Happy 2 year anniversary to my favourite game that I worked on!!!Please pirate it because none of us work at the company that owns this anymore