![]() ![]() Publication Date: Wed Apr 22 00:00: Research Org.: Argonne National Lab. Colorado School of Mines, Golden, CO (United States).North Carolina State Univ., Raleigh, NC (United States).The game wasn't even on Pirate Bay yet, the only people who had it at all had paid for it at stores that mixed up the street date. They caught thousands of pirates, but also sought steam bans against dozens of legitimate users who were affected by an out of date DLL.ĭark Souls probably still has the worst example with their Black Phantoms that invaded the games of anyone who was playing before the release date. If you posted this error, you were banned and your account was reported to Steam in attempt to get your account banned. I think I remember something similar happening with an EA game, maybe it was the pixelation thing from Sims?Ī few years ago, Gary's Mod rigged it so pirated copies gave the error "unable to shade polygon normals" and crashed, giving an error code with your steam ID embedded. Because the servers were so broken that day, it was possible for the game to connect but not be able to get the update, in which case it just let you in with the broken FOV. Assassins Creed's FOV thing was built into the game and corrected by a release day patch. It comes down to how they determine legitimate vs. On the absolutely worst end of the scale a couple of years ago Game Maker Studio's DRM went crazy and wiped out probably hundreds or even thousands of hours of work by legitimate users by automatically permanently editing created assets to be little skull and crossbones symbols:Ĭlick to expand.It can and does. The two main ones I heard about was people having issues with GTA 4 making the game unplayable due to some kind of "drunk mode" DRM and one particular version of Spyro the Dragon with really painful DRM which could be triggered by a simple scratched disk. Of course if the DRM is fairly innocuous that might not be a huge problem.Alan Wake, I believe, had a DRM thing which gave you a pirate patch with a skull and crossbones on it rendering it incredibly obvious in screenshots if you'd pirated the game or not. 11 Bit Studios distributed Steam keys for This War of Mine after discovering a popular torrent of the game.Īccording to a NeoGAF post, at least the latest pirate for The Talos Principle doesn't seem bothered. Not all developers punish pirates, however. Croteam added an The Sims 4 only shows up as a pixilated blur in pirated copies. ![]() Well played."ĭevelopers have found ways of annoying pirates or making pirated versions of their games unplayable. Publisher Devolver Digital later tweeted a link to a NeoGAF thread about it, acknowledging Croteam's ploy and said, "Well played, Croteam. A reply to the post pointed out that this is Croteam's anti-piracy measure: "Congratulations you must be the first one to show to the internet world what Croteam did this time to punish pirates " Someone posted in the Steam discussion forums for The Talos Principle yesterday about an elevator no longer functioning correctly in the game. Once unlocking the second floor of the tower in the game, the elevators will get stuck. People who played pirated copies of Croteam 's anti-piracy measure. The developers who added an invincible scorpion in Serious Sam 3: BFE have trapped pirates in an elevator in The Talos Principle. ![]()
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