[MrGiggles]

Frictional Games is fortunately not under a lot of financial stress anymore. Amnesia sold 200k units in four months, repaying all their costs and giving them a healthy buffer.

In the beginning though, the full game was available to pirate before it was released, which is a massive setbck for an indie company or any company really. Remember Spore? They were rather worried they weren't going to make it.

http://frictionalgames.blogspot.com/

Rubix is right, these guys make insanely legit games and are worth supporting.