Ovagames, 7 Facts about Farmer Sites that Form Pirate Gamer Culture

Piracy of a product has indeed become a culture in Indonesia and also in many developing countries. Under the pretext of the price of digital products that cannot be bought, it makes people justify piracy, consciously or unconsciously. It also does not escape the gaming industry scene that is familiar with the term “if something is free, why pay for it?”. For those of you who are interested in reading about the culture of Indonesian gamer preferences, you can try reading it here,

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Even though many parties and influencers have started voicing the trend of original games or paid original games, the stamp of piracy has not yet left our beloved country. Reporting from tekno.tempo.com, representatives from the Business Software Alliance (BSA) stated that Indonesia is still the largest user of pirated software in Asia. This does not necessarily describe the state of the gaming scene in Indonesia. However, one of our developer friends from Indonesia had experienced difficulties in developing games as a result of the piracy indirectly. In this article, we want to try to uncover facts about the famous pirated game website, Ovagames.

1. Born in 2013

Ovagames itself got its name because it has been accompanying pirated gamers since time immemorial. Ovagames is arguably one of the oldest pirated game distribution websites, because we found that the website has been around for 6 years since the domain was first registered. Older than Oceanofgames, igg who was born a few months later, and also skidrow who was born a year later. This has made Ovagames a long time in the world of distribution of game software piracy. During that time, our mindset has been supported to be friendly to pirated games.

2. Ranking Ovagames website

The ranking of a website on the internet can be classified and sorted, to determine how popular the website is in cyberspace. Here we use one of the tools from Amazon, namely Alexa to find out the ranking of Ovagames on the Internet.

The results we found were quite surprising where Ovagames was ranked 844 in Indonesia. Especially in the Video Game Console and Accessories website category, Ovagames ranks 459th. This proves how the public perceives how relevant this pirated website is to them. In the world, for example, Ovagames is at number 10,000 as a website that is often visited by various people throughout the country. In addition to, Indonesia ranks first as a visitor to the Ovagames website around the world, with a total of 17% of traffic coming from Indonesia, it’s surprising.

3. High Traffic

Being a pirated game provider website makes Ovagames quite popular among gamers. Using a tool to find out the traffic of a website, we found that there are at least 30 thousand to 59 thousand gamers every day visiting the website, for a month it can be estimated that there are 1.5 million visitors to 1.8 million visitors as of July 31, 2019. This also proves how crowded it is. gamers out there who still make pirated their choice, from within the country to abroad.

4. Income is quite tempting

Managing software provider websites is indeed quite profitable, for a rough count, Ovagames is able to earn up to 2 million rupiah per day by only uploading content specifically for pirated games. For a month Ovagames can get no less than 50 million rupiah. The income from the website advertising is indeed quite tempting, but the calculations above are only rough calculations, because the only one who knows for sure is the website owner.

5. Communicate and Provide Updates Through Social Media

There are many ways for a website to interact and promote to fans or potential fans. For the mode used by Ovagames itself, only focus on Facebook social media. They openly attach their Facebook page to their own website, from there we see the interactions that occur regarding what game requests should Ovagames upload later to help gamers regarding problems during game installation or website visits.

The page also received an appreciation for being worthy of Facebook, there are 51 thousand followers on their page, and also the rating on the Ovagames page reaches 4.9/5, which is an almost perfect number.

6. Alleged Owner Ovagames is Indonesian

It is quite difficult to get clear information about this pirated game website. There is not much information and public discussion about who is the real owner of ovagames. Even the pirate community has not listed Ovagames as a party that has participated in developing the piracy scene on the Internet. For example, CPY has a history and discussion that has made itself recognized as a pirate group, there is also Fitgirl who has a historical record as a repacker, but information about Ovagames is considered quite minimal.

This makes us curious who is the real character behind this Ovagames. The number of visitors from Indonesia makes us curious, whether Ovagames really targeting Indonesians. Through searching ovagames, in 2016 Ovagames often interacted and provided updates about the world of piracy to its fans using “Indonesian”, you can see the screenshot below.

The hypothesis about the mysterious owner of Ovagames who may be an Indonesian is now getting stronger. We kept trying to find out until we saw their Facebook account post in 2014 where he claimed that he was a gamer’s assistant to download a game. From the use of language at the time and comments from fans, it can be ascertained that Ovagames was from Indonesia or at least one of the admins at that time was Indonesian.

7. It all starts with a blog

Around the 2000s, Indonesia and the internet were experiencing a blog fever. Almost the movement of the internet is full of unique content that uses blogs as a medium. Not a few who finally gain success from that moment, we can remember Raditya Dika who is still active as a content creator where previously he started from a blog. Likewise with Ovagames, the manager’s career, which has now consistently distributed illegal games, has in fact started with his personal blogs.

We found one of his blogs called Sazam Software which he managed in 2014. The blog mostly contains Illegal software and other pirated games. Uniquely, when you click on the Game category on the blog, the website will immediately be directed to Ovagames. However, in managing this Sazam, it seems that Owner Ovagames uses Indonesian as a way of communicating. Then there is also a blog called the software gallery which is no longer accessible.

The fact that the owner of Ovagames is Indonesian or has an affiliation with Indonesians is quite surprising. The reason is that the website in the world of game distribution is considered quite credible, because it does not put too many harmful advertisements or adware.

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