The Indie Stone apologised to all who purchased the game, "but this has the potential to cost some of the development funds we've made so far, and we can't risk it". These new pirate copies have an 'update now' button which will download the game every time it's clicked, potentially every time the game is run by everyone using it." "Likewise people who download the game through our website only download it when there is a new version, so once every week or so. The possibility that it raises awareness and promotes the game cannot be ignored, but the difference is offline versions on torrents, which we've been largely unconcerned about, do not cost us real money, only potential money, and even then we can't really guess at what the net effect is. "Whether piracy actually amounts to lost sales we're not going to get into.
"We have a cloud based distribution model, where the files are copied all over the world and are served to players on request, which means we are charged money for people downloading the game. "These 'auto updating' versions of the game could screw us completely," said the developer on the Project Zomboid website. Pirates have made a version of the game that auto-downloads Project Zomboid from developer The Indie Stone's server whenever the player clicks an "update" button. Zombie survival role-playing game Project Zomboid has been forced offline after a particularly damaging pirated version of the game hit the internet.
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