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One of my favorite memories of this is when Ghostbusters came out in 2009. A lot of people were complaining about this one enemy being really tough. I was surprised, because I found it pretty easy. Turned out that pirated copies made the enemy invincible.
Hearing people go to the internet to complain about something that’s unknowingly an anti piracy measure is hilarious to me. I can only imagine the look on those people’s faces when they figured out they blew their cover.
These anti piracy measures punished legit owners tho, this is why they're not used much. Many people immediately mod their games one way or another, again punishing legit owners. DRM solves nothing and is just a petty medal devs brand just to fuck with consumers.
This Mortal Kombat dev menu thing finally explains something for me! I knew something was up. At my local mall, there used to be an arcade (closed finally in 2007 or so). In the mid-90s when I was a kid, one of the Mortal Kombat cabinets would sometimes be left on free play mode, and kids would crowd around to play it. Eventually the cabinet was set to Out Of Order, but for almost a year that thing would be randomly on free play. I once met a guy who claimed he was the one doing it, and he said there was a secret button combination that triggered it, but I didn't believe him because he refused to tell me what. Greg, wherever you are, looks like I was wrong.
Friendly reminder that spore has incredibly obnoxious anti-piracy that annoys legit players, yet has been cracked by pirates, making it one of the most pirated games in the world.
Gotta love stuff like this. Like early 2000s DVDs having the stupid, unskippable, 1 minute ''YoU wUolDn'T PirAtE a HouSE'' clips. Great ways of thanking the people who actually paid for your shit!
The ol "Anti piracy harms legitimate users" has been in effect since the SNES. If the connectors faltered slightly during Earthbound, it could just YEET your save data.
Don't forget the Game Dev Tycoon Anti-Piracy technique. Though y'all might've already heard of it. The developers of Game Dev Tycoon leaked an unwinnable version of their game onto some piracy sites, and at some point in that version of the game, the games your company makes will stop making decent sales numbers, due to piracy, dooming your company to bankruptcy.
Even better, pirates outed themselves similar to the Garry's Mod ones, asking on the forums and stuff if there was a way to research DRM or something to stop the pirates, missing the irony of the situation.
And looking back from Rabbidluigi’s Top 5 Games that harshly punish cheaters, he even brought up that the Devs actually made the Anti-Piracy thing as a Hard Mode for those who play the game legitimately.
The witcher 2 one is scaring. But then I remembered the witcher 3 mod that replaces Yen with Uma. Which is made weirder by the fact that the mod is voluntary.
Batman: Arkham Asylum disabled the ability to use Batman's cape to glide. Eventually, players are in a room filled with poison gas that requires gliding to get out of. Pirates were trapped.
Not gonna lie, I agree with CDPR's stance. If I ever produced a game I'd have pirated copies just put extra dialogue in after various parts which equate to "But you know, you really should purchase the game." or "Seems you're enjoying yourself, why not consider buying a real copy?" Something like that, to annoyingly needle them with "I deserve to be paid, jerk".
I pirated Witcher 3 first and finished it, i literally did not expect the game to be that good, so i decided to buy it right from their own store which is GOG the next week, 100hrs of pure masterpiece and extra two 20-40 hrs expansions which almost as good as the base game for like $20 is just too good to be true.
Two anti-piracy features that I found especially funny can be found in Skullgirls and Enter the Gungeon. Upon pirating skullgirls, the game will let you play through any given characters arcade or story mode, but when you beat the final boss you're greeted with a message that says "what is the square root of a fish? Now I'm sad." When the pirates inevitably started outing themselves on Twitter by asking what this message meant, all the developers would reply is that it meant that they should buy an actual copy of the game. Enter the gungeon doesn't have any anti-piracy measures itself, but there was a fairly popular mod that targeted pirates specifically. Once installed, if the mod detected that you were running a pirated copy of the game, it would open two windows on your computer. One was a link to the Lazy Town song You Are A Pirate, while the other was a link to an official copy of the game on the steam store.
@@exilestudios9546 Revealing your Steam ID doesn't give anyone any sensitive information, it just lets Steam staff find their account, that's not doxxing
True, he was the bravest of them all. 😞 He was the one who wore the ring without being seduced by its power because he knew what it was and didn't let the whispers in.
In that game the Hobbits in general were subpar compared to other heroes in combat. But if I had to label one as "useless" it would be Frodo, at least in the game.
@@robinfinch314 He actually did get seduced by the power of the ring a bit whenever he held onto it after Frodo was temporarily paralyzed by Shelob. He hesitated whenever Frodo told him to give it back to him
Skullgirls had a very interesting anti-piracy system, where instead of screwing over the user, it gave you a message after you beat a character's story mode that says "What is a square root of a fish? Now I'm sad!".
Is that message showing up the only thing it does or is there more to it ? Because it doesn't sound like screwing over the user, it's just a funny comment.
@@chromejailer6799 That's the only thing it does, it doesn't prevent you from playing the game or screwing you over by instantly KOing your fighter like how The Lord Of The Rings: Battle For Middle Earth kills your heroes if you pirated the game in a certain amount of time for no apparent fucking reason. It gives you a message that is super vague. Hell, someone on Twitter by the name of Dan Hibiki asked the official Skullgirls twitter account about the message, and I quote "So I got this message after beating story with both Para and Cere and I have no idea what it means...", and they said to the user "Oh that? It means you should probably buy the game instead of pirate it. O:)". The user was called out by the Skullgirls twitter account because they pirated a fighting game that has sexy females.
The thing that comes to mind is the original Sims 1, and how the disks used such a complex system to check for piracy that now with newer systems it makes legally purchased disks impossible to play
I think you're thinking of TS2. TS1 is fine, but 2's DRM program (I wanna say SecuROM?) is now so defunct that you literally can't install the game from disk. Thankfully, EA put TS2 out for free on Origin a few years ago, which makes pirating a copy seem like a perfectly legitimate solution, since it's now literally unobtainable any other way.
@@Norinia It's not, the only way to obtain a copy of the game is either pirating it or, if you have a Mac (and only if you have Mac because there's no other way to obtain this one otherwise), buying the Super Collection which doesn't include all of the expansion or stuff packs meaning you'll forever be missing certain content
So I had the Red Alert 2 event happen to me after Installing the Yuri's Revenge expansion, and it wasn't until years later I heard about the small chance of having a legitimate copy flag as pirated. Confused the hell out of me since nobody else I knew had that issue, and I just thought it was an easter egg or something.
Very short sighted, if you ask me. It's the internet. Everything is a fetish. I'm sure if they made it so the characters turn into bare code, someone's gonna get off on it. I mean, some of those 1's and 0's are pretty hot if you lump them together.
It's a relief when devs admit they did the same shit especially as a teen or when they were poor. I like to pay for my games but I expect to be able to do whatever I like with my purchase, so CDPR's approach clearly is the best way to handle piracy in my opinion.
I mean, it seems to be "do nothing about it". And, sure, they can do that. I'm just not going to say them doing nothing about piracy is doing something, especially if the example in the video here doesn't exactly do much.
One of my favorites was Just Shapes and Beats'. You get a mockup of the famous "YoU WouLdn't DownLoAD a CaR" ad, and a message from the dev asking you to at least share the name of the game around so that someone else may buy it.
Drm randomly breaks legit copies during extended offline periods too, on deployments some people have legit and pirate copies on the same pc and swap their saves back and forth because of it
most modern games don't do anti-piracy measures anymore which is fine, way more people pirate games than before and it would be an annoyance to have the game changes, yet it wouldn't matter since they could just work around that.
@@SonicXtreme99akaCreeperMario same goes to EA who still deny Lootbox is gambling, so I'm gonna pirates their games because they don't deserve my hard work money
Quest for glory 4 had the first anti piracy measures imI ever encountered. There is a part in the game where a scientist has to brew some potions for you in order to advance (this is around half way through the game). However you have to tell him the order of the ingredients for the potion he names. The ingredient list can only be found in the bottom corner of the original game manual.
A lot of early PC games that I can remember had specific things in the game manual that you needed to progress as basic anti-piracy measures. Heck, I remember some games that would even have a boot-up "code" you had to enter that you had to cross-reference with the manual to get the right stuff to enter.
I remember when I was like 8 playing a burned copy of metal gear solid on the first play station that my dads friend modded. There was a part of the game where you had to look on the back of the game case to get a codec number to call but my dads friend had a shitty printer and the number was so pixilated I couldn't read it. I stopped playing the game for months until my sisters boyfriend bought a legit copy that was actually legible.
@@ericmarciniak1 that was such a bullshit move because you got an actual disk or CD or something inside the game too. I don't know what that item was, it wasn't really important, more like a red herring but it really threw me off, I didn't know I have to think outside the box. And the legit copies of MGS has this very small image, even if you had the legit copy it wasn't easy to find the frequency.
I could see someone patching that lord of the rings game so the end of level crashes dont occur and make a "pirate difficulty" challenge speedrun category
Half-Life had one where you were on a train/monorail at the start and when you got to the destination an NPC had opened the door to let you out. If you had a pirated copy of the game NPC's would drop dead as soon as they touched a door, making it impossible to get off the train.
@@DanknDerpyGamer my mum's cousin made a copy for me to try and you couldn't play it other than walk around the tiny train. I noticed that NPC's you passed on the way would drop dead as soon as they touched a door and the one who would greet you at the end of ride went to open the train door and drop dead. There was no option to open it on the inside.
_Mortal Kombat II_ free play through the audit menu was discovered *_well_* before a couple decades after release, I can assure you. On earlier versions of the arcade machine, unplugging the cabinet and plugging it back in would take the screen directly to the audit menu. This was fixed in later versions.
Developers always have a bug up their ass about piracy when it's been shown time and time again that piracy has a zero to positive effect on the industry. The people who pirate and never buy the product afterwards were never going to buy it in the first place. These people are not "lost sales" and I'm tired of corporate looking at them that way in order to justify invasive, damaging, or downright buggy "anti-piracy" measures.
And it's not cheap for the dev/publisher to buy stuff like Denuvo either. They are literally paying expensive prices to potentially *lose* sales in the long term over people being pissed at buggy/performance-hogging DRM measures slapped on the game. But Denuvo keeps putting the advertising propaganda of "it'll help you get more day 1 sales at full price!" in their head and tries to convince them it's worth it. All Denuvo cares about is their own pocketbook though, not any interest in honestly looking at the long term statistics for the history of gaming and telling the truth that, like you said, it's been shown time and time again it has a zero (or even positive) effect on the industry. Some of the highest selling games of all time were also the most pirated.
It's funny how anti-piracy measures tend to inconvenience those who legitimately buy the games, yet pirates are smart enough to crack the games anyway. And as the narrator pointed out here, sometimes the cracked game outperforms the legitimate copy. So then I guess you could say that the anti-piracy measures, as well as the high price tag, can actually push people toward downloading the pirated versions.
"Denuvo" is just the gamer word for "suicide". As in suicide to a company's reputation and income. It's insane that it's still being used to this day despite being PROVEN to cause a loss in sales YEARS ago. How many more times does it need to be proven as harmful? If once wasn't enough, then neither will 100 times... Games companies dont learn, or adapt, they just rot too slowly to care that they're dying. Piracy will continue to be the morally better choice whilst the current alternative is buying the worst version of a game.
"despite being PROVEN to cause a loss in sales" Show me the proof. I highly doubt any company would do this, let alone more than once. "rot too slowly" Then it can't also be "suicide to a company's reputation and income", can it?
@@SonicXtreme99akaCreeperMario Game Creators can see Pirates as competitors on the same market. They offer a game for 60 bucks, the Pirate offers the same game for 0 bucks. In the last years they decided to win this battle by filling their games with DMR and other "protection" that limit the playability of the game. The Pirates, who have to break copy protection anyway (usually takes 2 days or less) just rip the DMR out too, while they are at it. Now the Game Creators offer a limited version of the game for 60 bucks. And the pirate offers the full version of the game for free. EA is best known for this. They hurt the paying customer as much as possible with their misguided plan to fight pirates. They start in a lower position, the pirate already has one advantage, and they cripple themself as much as possible.
I'm surprised the anti-piracy feature from Alan Wake and Quantum Break were not shown. Pirated copies made the protagonist wear an eye patch like a pirate.
My favourite anti-piracy measures come from Game Dev Tycoon. If you play a pirated copy of the game, eventually as your Game Dev studio starts to expand, you end up losing out on sales after your titles get pirated en masse. It becomes next to impossible to stay afloat and you end up going bankrupt
Arcade exploits were part of the fun. As a kid I discovered that a looooot of cabinets would work with 5cent coins instead of 20cent (euro). Especially the NeoGeo ones. A friend of mine, instead, discovered how to access the menu of those touchscreen games, but we couldn't take advantage of that since it asked for a pin lol
8:41 Sam is the best fictional character… “I may not be able to carry the ring mr.Frodo; but I can carry you…” damn..still gets me Lord of the rings is for the BOYS…
The "useless" comment was more in the context of the game itself. The hobbit characters were made more for stealth levels than the open frantic combat of most of the game, so they didn't do very well on levels not made for them. Sam was great as a character, but being forced to play the entire game as him, even without the experience penalty, sounds like a nightmare
I know dude, im saying this separate to that context of the video thats why i said best Fictional character. That being stated to say i mean the movie and or book character. But thx for saying this to defend no one but to prove you Also watched the video i did.
Now I'm just remembering the old days of Sierra's Space Quest games, which came with a physical document of some form which had information vital to progress in the game. They got real creative with it, too, for Space Quest V they included an entire tabloid newspaper full of in-universe articles, just so they could hide important coordinates in the horoscope section. Of course when they released a digital collection they just stuck all the important information into a PDF.
Early PC games from the 80s would ask you for a word from the manual, something like "page 12, paragraph 2, word 14". The assumption being that you would only have the manual if you bought the game. On a side note the original Leisure Suit Larry started with a quiz to make sure you were over 18. I was over 18 but I was playing it a decade after it came out so the questions were no longer relevant and I had to look up the answers.
if i made a game, I would love to have pirated versions play a Demo of the game, ending with a "thank you for playing, please consider buying the actual game."
More PC content! I know you guys like Nintendo and consoles but PC gaming has so many interesting bits of trivia especially on Windows 2.2 even early stuff like Amiga or Commodores 64.
Fallout 4. When you first get the PIPBoy the character wipes his thumb across the screen to remove the dust and dirt. Early pirated copies (before they realized what was going on and fixed it) the character doesn't clean the screen and a bunch of people complained on the forums about the Pipboy menu being too hard to read.
the biggest thing with piracy is that if someone is gonna pirate a game, they are gonna do it, with or without anti piracy. the people who want to pay for it will also pay for it with or without piracy. its just dumb to even try to stop it
Studies in human behaviour suggest otherwise, giving the public opportunity to have free easy access to goods and services without any negative consequence most of the times result in the people taking largely advantage of that, if a store put all their items for free with the option to pay for the items if you want to support the store most if not all people would take the items for free. Anti piracy measures serve the purpose to hinder the actions of who whish to use the goods for free, making most of who would have, given easy access to the free copy without consequences, chose that option to instead purchase the game or not bother at all. I assure you that if pirate copie of games were as easy to retrieve and play as regular copie most people who buy games would resort to piracy. Beside that companies are required to protect their copyrights, failing to do that could result in the loos of their rights on said intellectual property, making it public domain.
Just one tip, if you're gonna add secret anti piracy like these, make it obvious You don't want people pirating the game to test it and think that your game is broken, to add to it, a legit player that may trigger these due to modding or whathever may also think the game's being fucky and not just the anti piracy triggering by mistake Because yes, in a time where demos are very rare and the economy isn't exactly thriving, the only way to get your money's worth is to pirate a game to test it out and THEN buying it
@@Compucles IF you find a playtrough of that game (which is usually the case, but still) Also, the player is usually busy commentating and may easily overlook stuff that would be important for the game, which is why it's a bad idea to judge a game by someone's gameplay Without mentioning that youtubers rarely show the technical side of games such as some background programs it may try to push on you or major incompatibilities If you're in steam the later is simple to overcome since refunds within 2 hours are granted automatically, but it can happen that you spend the 2 hours setting stuff up and you loose that window AND 2 hours is often not enough to truly judge a game, the whole "put the best at the beggining" is way too common and i've found many times that games have subtle but important issues that you don't notice until you're like 10 hours in
One thing about Mortal Kombat 11 was that it took a year for a pirated copy to come out. But a problem with it is that practically all unlocks require an online access. So the only costumes available are 2 defaults and any DLC costume. And intros and victory poses are also stuck as default.
If Team Fortress 2 has any anti piracy measure, I think that should the game determine that it’s a pirated version, there should be a screen where the characters question why you pirated a game that’s free to play.
@@misterzygarde6431 But the pirates wouldn't get it because you're only adding it to the latest legitimate version. You'd just be wasting development time and then you'd also have to implement some actual anti-piracy. The TF2 team is like Eric and Jill and maybe Dave and the fourth guy, that's a waste of time.
A lot of arcade games had secret button combos (or at least were rumored to) that gave free games. There was even a magazine that printed the button combos for Street Fighter 2 that gave you free games. From what I remember, it took all the credits that was in the accounting system and registered them as active credits.
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@@Oshamoff I know everything & I don't like to pirate Nintendo games but when I see lil kids who wants to play games but don't have money to buy I really feel bad . It's their age to enjoy life later when they have money life won't give them time to play
It's really smart because it pretends to be an error that wasn't even exist, but in reality it's reveal the pirate's Steam ID just in case if the pirates ever reporting it so the devs could laughed at them.
I remember pirating Ghostbusters on PC and finding the chandeliers and mini marshmallow spawns to be extremely tough. Had the sense to Google the issue instead of outing myself on some forum, turns out pirated copies spiked difficulty towards the end of act 1. Bought it later for PlayStation and am very happy. Except for those cupid things in Central Park, fuck those.
Remember when nintendo made legal Super Mario Galaxy 2 discs refuse to work on modded Wiis in a post Project M landscape so SMG2 became one of the most pirated games ever because a large chunk of Wiis were only capable of playing a pirated version? Because I do
For me, the most brutal Anti Piracy probably is Earthboun/Mother 2 where after defeating the last boss, you game freeze and then your saved progressed was erased, basically blue balling your ending
I heard about an adventure game that was missing a key item if it detected a pirated copy. Someone was saying on a forum that he's reading a walkthrough and there should be an item on a horse/donkey/mule pouch and can't find the item. The response he got was "buy the game next time". And also there was the famous thing in The Settlers 2 where the blacksmith kept forging pigs so you could never get into battle because you never had proper equipment if you pirated the game.
Pirating Earthbound would make the game harder by tripling the encounter rate. Also there were set places in areas and even battles where the game would freeze up (one was during the final boss). Also it would randomly delete your save data
I believe there are 6 total checks for piracy in the game. 2 of the checks are anti piracy screens that appear if you are playing a pirated copy or an official copy on a PAL snes. The other anti piracy screen appears if the game has more than 8kb of SRAM. If you bypass those, it does the triple enemy spawn rates, sometimes spawning them in places they normally would not be, when entering certain areas, the game crashes, and when pokey deactivates the devils machine, the game freezes, making you reset the game with your save data gone
my favorite anti piracy measure is probably the Serious Sam one (iirc this was in Before First Encounter), where an invincible Arachnoid would always follow you and deal more damage than a normal Arachnoid.
The days when we had to use copy protection documents to play adventure games in the 80s and 90s and serial keys. some copy protection documents were fun like monkey island's but if you lost any of these codes or documents..... That's it. Sorry buddy, no more game for you unless you can crack it.
@@Poldovico A lot of games had paper documents with codes or passwords included in the box, the game would ask for the copy protection code and you would input it into the game
@@TimeofRagnarok An assumption about purchasing patterns, like the one Mr. Z is talking about, isn't "debunked" because of your position on piracy. GTFO with the bad logic m8.
@@TimeofRagnarok Theft keeps the number of copies on the market net neutral, piracy is a form of counterfeiting that increases the number of copies on the market. Indeed, there are many pirates who have legally purchased the game, and therefore no sales were lost.
The pirated version of Serious Sam 3 has a little pink scorpion that can't be killed, and chases you throughout the level, shooting you constantly. Fun times.
When developers try weird stuff like this to get pirates to buy the game, it usually just makes me think the game is broken or just won't work on my computer and I delete it and forget about it. If it doesn't work on the pirated version I'm definitely not going to pay money just in case it still doesn't work
It still succeeds in keeping you from enjoying the game for free. That's a moral victory despite not getting any monetary benefits from swashbucklers like you.
I thought PC games were easy to pirate, because you just need to either borrow from a friend or rent the game on CD-ROM, install it, return the disc, and download a crack that lets you bypass the CD check, *not* needing to bypass a check for a legitimate copy. For the registered versions of DOS games, it was even easier (unless it was a rare user of old physical DRM techniques, although cracks and other bypasses exist for those, too), since you just needed to pass along a copy of the game on floppy disk or re-writable CD (or just download them from the "right" web sites once the Internet became popular). Or for you modern PC gamers, simply have a friend log into his/her Steam or GOG account on your computer so you can install all their games for yourself (and use the offline method for playing Steam games).
So, SO many assholes were defending Denuvo at the launch of DMC5 and RE8 "it's only a couple of microseconds, if you say you notice it you're lying" Remember those accounts and take notice of whatever they suddenly start talking about.
I'm so glad these guys didn't try to point out the one that gets milked all the time when there comes the topic of piracy. GTA 4. literally everybody knows about GTA 4s anti-piracy measures by this point so yeah good on them for not mentioning it.
Did you know, that anti-piracy video at the beginning was technically pirated itself? The music was included on dvds, when they only had the rights to be shown at one particular film festival. 😂
the mk menu was well known by anyone who operated an arcade, it was the options menu for the game and it assisted with bookkeeping functions as well. but its fair to say "most players probably didnt know how to get into the menu" you missed tons of other examples of anti-piracy, like Deus Ex Human Revolution: jensen would wear an eyepatch that you cannot unequip.
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One of my favorite memories of this is when Ghostbusters came out in 2009. A lot of people were complaining about this one enemy being really tough. I was surprised, because I found it pretty easy. Turned out that pirated copies made the enemy invincible.
Hearing people go to the internet to complain about something that’s unknowingly an anti piracy measure is hilarious to me. I can only imagine the look on those people’s faces when they figured out they blew their cover.
@@Luigis_Menace i doubt they even care, i wouldn't care tbh
@@Luigis_Menace steam community reports are hilarous.
@@Luigis_Menace they could’ve been sold it without their knowledge, though I doubt it
These anti piracy measures punished legit owners tho, this is why they're not used much.
Many people immediately mod their games one way or another, again punishing legit owners.
DRM solves nothing and is just a petty medal devs brand just to fuck with consumers.
This Mortal Kombat dev menu thing finally explains something for me! I knew something was up. At my local mall, there used to be an arcade (closed finally in 2007 or so). In the mid-90s when I was a kid, one of the Mortal Kombat cabinets would sometimes be left on free play mode, and kids would crowd around to play it. Eventually the cabinet was set to Out Of Order, but for almost a year that thing would be randomly on free play. I once met a guy who claimed he was the one doing it, and he said there was a secret button combination that triggered it, but I didn't believe him because he refused to tell me what. Greg, wherever you are, looks like I was wrong.
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Sounds like Greg was a cool dude
greg rules ok
This should be put in a book of legends lol that’s such a cool story
Greg the fucking lad who found this exploit years before it came out publicly amazing
Friendly reminder that spore has incredibly obnoxious anti-piracy that annoys legit players, yet has been cracked by pirates, making it one of the most pirated games in the world.
Gotta love stuff like this. Like early 2000s DVDs having the stupid, unskippable, 1 minute ''YoU wUolDn'T PirAtE a HouSE'' clips. Great ways of thanking the people who actually paid for your shit!
@@pokemonduck It also turns out, people would totally download a car.
@@pokemonduck yeah it just encourages me to record my DVD and edit the recording to cut that commercial stuff out, and for digital preservation.
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As someone who... Er, knows someone who pirated spore.. I'm surprised to learn this. Since I never faced any difficulty with the game.
The ol "Anti piracy harms legitimate users" has been in effect since the SNES. If the connectors faltered slightly during Earthbound, it could just YEET your save data.
That was actually around in NES cartridges too!
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@@IMadeThisForYou Me too bro
@@bageltoo haha ah, my phone was in my pocket while working out. lol just realized I posted this
And Earthbound was nearly $100 MSRP as well
Don't forget the Game Dev Tycoon Anti-Piracy technique. Though y'all might've already heard of it.
The developers of Game Dev Tycoon leaked an unwinnable version of their game onto some piracy sites, and at some point in that version of the game, the games your company makes will stop making decent sales numbers, due to piracy, dooming your company to bankruptcy.
Even better, pirates outed themselves similar to the Garry's Mod ones, asking on the forums and stuff if there was a way to research DRM or something to stop the pirates, missing the irony of the situation.
Yes! I can’t believe this one didn’t make the video.
Which is a very unlikely event actually but at least they tried
And looking back from Rabbidluigi’s Top 5 Games that harshly punish cheaters, he even brought up that the Devs actually made the Anti-Piracy thing as a Hard Mode for those who play the game legitimately.
They recently released a update/DLC for the game that intentionally gave users this as a new difficulty level
The witcher 2 one is scaring. But then I remembered the witcher 3 mod that replaces Yen with Uma. Which is made weirder by the fact that the mod is voluntary.
Maybe some people discovered something about themselves being bonked for piracy and had to bring it back.
Batman: Arkham Asylum disabled the ability to use Batman's cape to glide. Eventually, players are in a room filled with poison gas that requires gliding to get out of. Pirates were trapped.
I remember reading about that.
"Its not a bug in the games code. It's a bug in your moral code." -the developers of Arkham asylum
@@_ThatDudeAgain_ kinda hilarious to hear a game developer preaching about morals.
@@ucitymetalhead is that a shot at game developers?
@@ain.nevarez the sleazy ones like activision yes.
@@ucitymetalhead Arkham games aren't done by Activision....
Not gonna lie, I agree with CDPR's stance. If I ever produced a game I'd have pirated copies just put extra dialogue in after various parts which equate to "But you know, you really should purchase the game." or "Seems you're enjoying yourself, why not consider buying a real copy?" Something like that, to annoyingly needle them with "I deserve to be paid, jerk".
Like every Patreon game has something along the lines of "If you bought this game, you're an idiot"
I pirated Witcher 3 first and finished it, i literally did not expect the game to be that good, so i decided to buy it right from their own store which is GOG the next week, 100hrs of pure masterpiece and extra two 20-40 hrs expansions which almost as good as the base game for like $20 is just too good to be true.
Two anti-piracy features that I found especially funny can be found in Skullgirls and Enter the Gungeon. Upon pirating skullgirls, the game will let you play through any given characters arcade or story mode, but when you beat the final boss you're greeted with a message that says "what is the square root of a fish? Now I'm sad." When the pirates inevitably started outing themselves on Twitter by asking what this message meant, all the developers would reply is that it meant that they should buy an actual copy of the game.
Enter the gungeon doesn't have any anti-piracy measures itself, but there was a fairly popular mod that targeted pirates specifically. Once installed, if the mod detected that you were running a pirated copy of the game, it would open two windows on your computer. One was a link to the Lazy Town song You Are A Pirate, while the other was a link to an official copy of the game on the steam store.
Now I really wish gungeon had official anti piracy because as a person who has 100%ed the game it could be *really* funny
Okay the Gmod thing tricking pirates into sharing their Steam ID as an "error code" is fucking genius
if they tried that shit now they would get sued for doxing people.
@@exilestudios9546 Revealing your Steam ID doesn't give anyone any sensitive information, it just lets Steam staff find their account, that's not doxxing
@@exilestudios9546 Yeah, nah that's not how law works...
I feel disgust at Samwise Gamgee being depicted in the game as "useless"
>Carries Frodo and the ring up an entire mountain.
>"Useless"
Suuuuure
With one well placed blow Sam cleaves your skull.
True, he was the bravest of them all. 😞 He was the one who wore the ring without being seduced by its power because he knew what it was and didn't let the whispers in.
In that game the Hobbits in general were subpar compared to other heroes in combat. But if I had to label one as "useless" it would be Frodo, at least in the game.
@@robinfinch314 He actually did get seduced by the power of the ring a bit whenever he held onto it after Frodo was temporarily paralyzed by Shelob. He hesitated whenever Frodo told him to give it back to him
CD Projekt Red avoids DRM that could potentially make their games run poorly... But they seem to accomplish that just fine all on their own.
Funniest thing ive heard all year
Haha guys! Look at me I'm so funny and original lolz
I mean CD Projekt Red overworked and crunch there employees,that is the main reason why I hate Projekt Red,Projekt Red isn't an indie Company
Sad how people are defending a shit company like cdpr
@ً yes
Skullgirls had a very interesting anti-piracy system, where instead of screwing over the user, it gave you a message after you beat a character's story mode that says "What is a square root of a fish? Now I'm sad!".
Is that message showing up the only thing it does or is there more to it ? Because it doesn't sound like screwing over the user, it's just a funny comment.
@@chromejailer6799
That's the only thing it does, it doesn't prevent you from playing the game or screwing you over by instantly KOing your fighter like how The Lord Of The Rings: Battle For Middle Earth kills your heroes if you pirated the game in a certain amount of time for no apparent fucking reason.
It gives you a message that is super vague.
Hell, someone on Twitter by the name of Dan Hibiki asked the official Skullgirls twitter account about the message, and I quote "So I got this message after beating story with both Para and Cere and I have no idea what it means...", and they said to the user "Oh that? It means you should probably buy the game instead of pirate it. O:)".
The user was called out by the Skullgirls twitter account because they pirated a fighting game that has sexy females.
@@chromejailer6799 no, people would go online asking about it and they’d get exposed
"and I'm talking about coins with a k, of course"
Me, reading the captions: hmmmm...
That is how it's spelled, komrade.
It didn't hit me till now he was making a reference
You mean the kaptions?
The thing that comes to mind is the original Sims 1, and how the disks used such a complex system to check for piracy that now with newer systems it makes legally purchased disks impossible to play
I think you're thinking of TS2. TS1 is fine, but 2's DRM program (I wanna say SecuROM?) is now so defunct that you literally can't install the game from disk.
Thankfully, EA put TS2 out for free on Origin a few years ago, which makes pirating a copy seem like a perfectly legitimate solution, since it's now literally unobtainable any other way.
@@KatJustice97 is it even still obtainable from there? I haven’t heard if it’s still cool to get
@@Norinia It's not, the only way to obtain a copy of the game is either pirating it or, if you have a Mac (and only if you have Mac because there's no other way to obtain this one otherwise), buying the Super Collection which doesn't include all of the expansion or stuff packs meaning you'll forever be missing certain content
So I had the Red Alert 2 event happen to me after Installing the Yuri's Revenge expansion, and it wasn't until years later I heard about the small chance of having a legitimate copy flag as pirated. Confused the hell out of me since nobody else I knew had that issue, and I just thought it was an easter egg or something.
The “Just walking the ring to Mordor yourself would be easier” line REALLY had me laughing more then it should have lol
Player who pirated Witcher 2: Jokes on you, I'm into that shit.
Old ugly women need love too. They make money on fetish websites for people who like it weird.
@@MLBlue30 aight
*clicks* Nice ;)
Very short sighted, if you ask me. It's the internet. Everything is a fetish. I'm sure if they made it so the characters turn into bare code, someone's gonna get off on it. I mean, some of those 1's and 0's are pretty hot if you lump them together.
It's a relief when devs admit they did the same shit especially as a teen or when they were poor.
I like to pay for my games but I expect to be able to do whatever I like with my purchase, so CDPR's approach clearly is the best way to handle piracy in my opinion.
Yeah DRM free is the way to go
I mean, it seems to be "do nothing about it". And, sure, they can do that. I'm just not going to say them doing nothing about piracy is doing something, especially if the example in the video here doesn't exactly do much.
One of my favorites was Just Shapes and Beats'. You get a mockup of the famous "YoU WouLdn't DownLoAD a CaR" ad, and a message from the dev asking you to at least share the name of the game around so that someone else may buy it.
Drm randomly breaks legit copies during extended offline periods too, on deployments some people have legit and pirate copies on the same pc and swap their saves back and forth because of it
The guy who's into GILFs: I see this as an absolute win!
So, Chris Chan then.
Technically, "GILF" is a gender-neutral word.
@@diegomedina9637 get out of my head get out of my head get out of my head
@@mikuenjoyerXD If i was cursed with that knowledge, then you shall be cursed as well.
@@diegomedina9637 damn it i still cant believe he did that
most modern games don't do anti-piracy measures anymore which is fine, way more people pirate games than before and it would be an annoyance to have the game changes, yet it wouldn't matter since they could just work around that.
But it does make it harder to crack tho, Red dead redemption 2 got cracked 1 year later lmao while scarlet nexus only took a few weeks
@@AcediaIX 🤣😂 wrong Scarlet nexus doesn't use garbage software called DRM, this is already find that most of people is gonna buy anyway
Hardly seen pirated games today besides gaming today is dead.
ppl who pirate games don’t deserve rights at all
@@SonicXtreme99akaCreeperMario same goes to EA who still deny Lootbox is gambling, so I'm gonna pirates their games because they don't deserve my hard work money
Quest for glory 4 had the first anti piracy measures imI ever encountered. There is a part in the game where a scientist has to brew some potions for you in order to advance (this is around half way through the game). However you have to tell him the order of the ingredients for the potion he names. The ingredient list can only be found in the bottom corner of the original game manual.
A lot of early PC games that I can remember had specific things in the game manual that you needed to progress as basic anti-piracy measures. Heck, I remember some games that would even have a boot-up "code" you had to enter that you had to cross-reference with the manual to get the right stuff to enter.
Denuvo is notorious for making games run worse and is one of the easiest DRM to bypass.
Depends on which version of Denuvo you're talking about
How is it one of the easiest DRMs to bypass? I’m pretty sure it’s the hardest.
@@eliasothman8440 it was once, in fact it was thought to be uncrackable but once it was cracked the first time it was incredibly easy to do it again.
@@mr.sentient7344 Really? But how come is empress the only one doing it?
RE 8 got cracked on the day it got released
Metal gear msx games are really creative with their anti piracy, I love learning about them
I remember when I was like 8 playing a burned copy of metal gear solid on the first play station that my dads friend modded. There was a part of the game where you had to look on the back of the game case to get a codec number to call but my dads friend had a shitty printer and the number was so pixilated I couldn't read it. I stopped playing the game for months until my sisters boyfriend bought a legit copy that was actually legible.
@@ericmarciniak1 Ha! The PC games did that too!
@@ericmarciniak1 that was such a bullshit move because you got an actual disk or CD or something inside the game too. I don't know what that item was, it wasn't really important, more like a red herring but it really threw me off, I didn't know I have to think outside the box. And the legit copies of MGS has this very small image, even if you had the legit copy it wasn't easy to find the frequency.
"Impossible to Crack." They unlocked more things and fixed more bugs faster than a Ghost Rider Gerbil on Heat.
what
I could see someone patching that lord of the rings game so the end of level crashes dont occur and make a "pirate difficulty" challenge speedrun category
I love the NES Pictionary theme playing during that ad for Core
Tim Follin is amazing
@@madmellian plok's soundtrack slaps so hard
Wait... you watched the ad?
Half-Life had one where you were on a train/monorail at the start and when you got to the destination an NPC had opened the door to let you out. If you had a pirated copy of the game NPC's would drop dead as soon as they touched a door, making it impossible to get off the train.
Never heard of that one before XD That's hilarious
@@DanknDerpyGamer my mum's cousin made a copy for me to try and you couldn't play it other than walk around the tiny train. I noticed that NPC's you passed on the way would drop dead as soon as they touched a door and the one who would greet you at the end of ride went to open the train door and drop dead. There was no option to open it on the inside.
Couldn't you just open the console?
LOL! The Witcher 2's anti-pirate method is plain evil genius!
_Mortal Kombat II_ free play through the audit menu was discovered *_well_* before a couple decades after release, I can assure you. On earlier versions of the arcade machine, unplugging the cabinet and plugging it back in would take the screen directly to the audit menu. This was fixed in later versions.
Spyro had the most brutal
It was like a little brother screwing with your files...
Also, king Kong pc port which can give blue screen of death on windows XP
Developers always have a bug up their ass about piracy when it's been shown time and time again that piracy has a zero to positive effect on the industry. The people who pirate and never buy the product afterwards were never going to buy it in the first place. These people are not "lost sales" and I'm tired of corporate looking at them that way in order to justify invasive, damaging, or downright buggy "anti-piracy" measures.
And it's not cheap for the dev/publisher to buy stuff like Denuvo either. They are literally paying expensive prices to potentially *lose* sales in the long term over people being pissed at buggy/performance-hogging DRM measures slapped on the game. But Denuvo keeps putting the advertising propaganda of "it'll help you get more day 1 sales at full price!" in their head and tries to convince them it's worth it. All Denuvo cares about is their own pocketbook though, not any interest in honestly looking at the long term statistics for the history of gaming and telling the truth that, like you said, it's been shown time and time again it has a zero (or even positive) effect on the industry. Some of the highest selling games of all time were also the most pirated.
It's funny how anti-piracy measures tend to inconvenience those who legitimately buy the games, yet pirates are smart enough to crack the games anyway. And as the narrator pointed out here, sometimes the cracked game outperforms the legitimate copy. So then I guess you could say that the anti-piracy measures, as well as the high price tag, can actually push people toward downloading the pirated versions.
Don't know if it was an anti piracy thing or not, but I've heard pirated versions of Sonic 06 run better than any official release.
@@kylehyde215CAa block of cheese runs better than Sonic 06
"Denuvo" is just the gamer word for "suicide". As in suicide to a company's reputation and income. It's insane that it's still being used to this day despite being PROVEN to cause a loss in sales YEARS ago. How many more times does it need to be proven as harmful? If once wasn't enough, then neither will 100 times... Games companies dont learn, or adapt, they just rot too slowly to care that they're dying.
Piracy will continue to be the morally better choice whilst the current alternative is buying the worst version of a game.
And it's expensive for the company/publisher to buy.
"despite being PROVEN to cause a loss in sales"
Show me the proof. I highly doubt any company would do this, let alone more than once.
"rot too slowly"
Then it can't also be "suicide to a company's reputation and income", can it?
"How do we make money? The Pirates are offering the same game, but for free"
"Let's make what we offer worse lol"
I don’t get it
@@SonicXtreme99akaCreeperMario ok
@@TheTSense plz explain
@@SonicXtreme99akaCreeperMario Game Creators can see Pirates as competitors on the same market. They offer a game for 60 bucks, the Pirate offers the same game for 0 bucks.
In the last years they decided to win this battle by filling their games with DMR and other "protection" that limit the playability of the game.
The Pirates, who have to break copy protection anyway (usually takes 2 days or less) just rip the DMR out too, while they are at it.
Now the Game Creators offer a limited version of the game for 60 bucks.
And the pirate offers the full version of the game for free.
EA is best known for this. They hurt the paying customer as much as possible with their misguided plan to fight pirates.
They start in a lower position, the pirate already has one advantage, and they cripple themself as much as possible.
I'm surprised the anti-piracy feature from Alan Wake and Quantum Break were not shown. Pirated copies made the protagonist wear an eye patch like a pirate.
That is a great anti-piracy messure, it makes sure that you pirated the game, therefor you deserved the eyepatch, you filthy pirate
That got cracked pretty quickly
@@ChaseMC215 Corporate shill
My favourite anti-piracy measures come from Game Dev Tycoon. If you play a pirated copy of the game, eventually as your Game Dev studio starts to expand, you end up losing out on sales after your titles get pirated en masse. It becomes next to impossible to stay afloat and you end up going bankrupt
It may be wrong, but pirates are really determined to their craft.
and it wony stop till games are made free
In most cases its not even that wrong.
The only greater force in the world than corporate greed is consumer greed.
Game studios sure aren't. Not anymore at least.
@@Izandaia Oh hey you're also shilling for corporations on this thread too
2300 Tokens have been added to your Fortnite account king
Arcade exploits were part of the fun. As a kid I discovered that a looooot of cabinets would work with 5cent coins instead of 20cent (euro). Especially the NeoGeo ones. A friend of mine, instead, discovered how to access the menu of those touchscreen games, but we couldn't take advantage of that since it asked for a pin lol
8:41 Sam is the best fictional character… “I may not be able to carry the ring mr.Frodo; but I can carry you…”
damn..still gets me Lord of the rings is for the BOYS…
The "useless" comment was more in the context of the game itself. The hobbit characters were made more for stealth levels than the open frantic combat of most of the game, so they didn't do very well on levels not made for them. Sam was great as a character, but being forced to play the entire game as him, even without the experience penalty, sounds like a nightmare
I know dude, im saying this separate to that context of the video thats why i said best Fictional character. That being stated to say i mean the movie and or book character. But thx for saying this to defend no one but to prove you Also watched the video i did.
Thank you Empress for your work on RE8
Now I'm just remembering the old days of Sierra's Space Quest games, which came with a physical document of some form which had information vital to progress in the game. They got real creative with it, too, for Space Quest V they included an entire tabloid newspaper full of in-universe articles, just so they could hide important coordinates in the horoscope section. Of course when they released a digital collection they just stuck all the important information into a PDF.
Gmods anti piracy measure was genius.
Garry Newman sounds like he has really good sense of humour.
Anti-Piracy Measures in PC Games
*at the end shows you how to pirate a fucking Mortal Kombat 2 Arcade Cabinet IRL*
Setting an arcade cabinet to free-play mode is not piracy. That's like calling cheat codes mods.
I remember the DRM called SecuROM found on many CD-DVD based games
Iirc securom left an undelatable file in the c drive.
Early PC games from the 80s would ask you for a word from the manual, something like "page 12, paragraph 2, word 14". The assumption being that you would only have the manual if you bought the game.
On a side note the original Leisure Suit Larry started with a quiz to make sure you were over 18. I was over 18 but I was playing it a decade after it came out so the questions were no longer relevant and I had to look up the answers.
The old granny gag in Witcher 2 was classic 😂
@matt allen into gilf, huh?
if i made a game, I would love to have pirated versions play a Demo of the game, ending with a "thank you for playing, please consider buying the actual game."
Might as well just give a regular demo at that point, that would achieve the same goal.
More PC content! I know you guys like Nintendo and consoles but PC gaming has so many interesting bits of trivia especially on Windows 2.2 even early stuff like Amiga or Commodores 64.
Fallout 4. When you first get the PIPBoy the character wipes his thumb across the screen to remove the dust and dirt. Early pirated copies (before they realized what was going on and fixed it) the character doesn't clean the screen and a bunch of people complained on the forums about the Pipboy menu being too hard to read.
I love Anti Piracy Measure type videos. Thank you for uploading this.
the biggest thing with piracy is that if someone is gonna pirate a game, they are gonna do it, with or without anti piracy. the people who want to pay for it will also pay for it with or without piracy. its just dumb to even try to stop it
Studies in human behaviour suggest otherwise, giving the public opportunity to have free easy access to goods and services without any negative consequence most of the times result in the people taking largely advantage of that, if a store put all their items for free with the option to pay for the items if you want to support the store most if not all people would take the items for free.
Anti piracy measures serve the purpose to hinder the actions of who whish to use the goods for free, making most of who would have, given easy access to the free copy without consequences, chose that option to instead purchase the game or not bother at all. I assure you that if pirate copie of games were as easy to retrieve and play as regular copie most people who buy games would resort to piracy.
Beside that companies are required to protect their copyrights, failing to do that could result in the loos of their rights on said intellectual property, making it public domain.
I remember seeing that anti-piracy commercial from the intro when I was younger. I totally forgot about it lol
Just one tip, if you're gonna add secret anti piracy like these, make it obvious
You don't want people pirating the game to test it and think that your game is broken, to add to it, a legit player that may trigger these due to modding or whathever may also think the game's being fucky and not just the anti piracy triggering by mistake
Because yes, in a time where demos are very rare and the economy isn't exactly thriving, the only way to get your money's worth is to pirate a game to test it out and THEN buying it
...or, you know, just read reviews and/or watch Let's Play videos.
@@Compucles IF you find a playtrough of that game (which is usually the case, but still)
Also, the player is usually busy commentating and may easily overlook stuff that would be important for the game, which is why it's a bad idea to judge a game by someone's gameplay
Without mentioning that youtubers rarely show the technical side of games such as some background programs it may try to push on you or major incompatibilities
If you're in steam the later is simple to overcome since refunds within 2 hours are granted automatically, but it can happen that you spend the 2 hours setting stuff up and you loose that window AND 2 hours is often not enough to truly judge a game, the whole "put the best at the beggining" is way too common and i've found many times that games have subtle but important issues that you don't notice until you're like 10 hours in
One thing about Mortal Kombat 11 was that it took a year for a pirated copy to come out. But a problem with it is that practically all unlocks require an online access. So the only costumes available are 2 defaults and any DLC costume. And intros and victory poses are also stuck as default.
If Team Fortress 2 has any anti piracy measure, I think that should the game determine that it’s a pirated version, there should be a screen where the characters question why you pirated a game that’s free to play.
TF2's antipiracy comes in with pirated copies being unable to join any legitimate servers due to the copies being out of date.
@@BottomOfTheDumpsterFire Well I do think they should have a screen questioning why you pirated a Free To Play game
@@misterzygarde6431 it wasn't always free to play
@@Lead_Foot It is now
@@misterzygarde6431 But the pirates wouldn't get it because you're only adding it to the latest legitimate version. You'd just be wasting development time and then you'd also have to implement some actual anti-piracy. The TF2 team is like Eric and Jill and maybe Dave and the fourth guy, that's a waste of time.
*PC gamers:* "Playing games on PC is way better than on a console!"
*Console gamers:* "How's that Denuvo treating ya?"
*PC gamers:* ".....shut up!"
A lot of arcade games had secret button combos (or at least were rumored to) that gave free games. There was even a magazine that printed the button combos for Street Fighter 2 that gave you free games. From what I remember, it took all the credits that was in the accounting system and registered them as active credits.
You know what I think would be a good episode for DYKG extra?
An episode about how video games punish players for using profanity.
That one just BEGS to talk about the *You Don't Know Jack* series and the long ongoing Gibberish Question Easter Egg!
What, no scorpions from Serious Sam 3?
Saw someone a year back or something, who had fallen over a still protected version even this late.
Seeing this right after visiting steamunlocked for the first time lol
People like you killed emuparadise
@@truepatriot6657 Emuparadise is only dead if you don't know the magic trick.
@@Oshamoff I know everything & I don't like to pirate Nintendo games but when I see lil kids who wants to play games but don't have money to buy I really feel bad . It's their age to enjoy life later when they have money life won't give them time to play
@@truepatriot6657 It's not like it's hard to find roms, the Internet Archive has complete rompacks for most consoles, and these can't be taken down.
@@truepatriot6657 sorry but I’ve never even heard of that, what did I do
Please continue Did you Know Food? I like that channel a lot. Even more than Food Theory with Matthew Patthew
That Gary’s Mod anti-pirate method was great
It's really smart because it pretends to be an error that wasn't even exist, but in reality it's reveal the pirate's Steam ID just in case if the pirates ever reporting it so the devs could laughed at them.
@@Trimint123 That’s…what they said in this video
I remember pirating Ghostbusters on PC and finding the chandeliers and mini marshmallow spawns to be extremely tough. Had the sense to Google the issue instead of outing myself on some forum, turns out pirated copies spiked difficulty towards the end of act 1. Bought it later for PlayStation and am very happy. Except for those cupid things in Central Park, fuck those.
The first ever legitimately decent advert on TH-cam! :D
Man, LOTR: RotK was so fun.
"What's the square root of a fish? Now I'm sad..."
Remember when nintendo made legal Super Mario Galaxy 2 discs refuse to work on modded Wiis in a post Project M landscape so SMG2 became one of the most pirated games ever because a large chunk of Wiis were only capable of playing a pirated version? Because I do
"Don't Copy That Floppy"
I would love to see a did you know gaming on garry’s mod
For me, the most brutal Anti Piracy probably is Earthboun/Mother 2 where after defeating the last boss, you game freeze and then your saved progressed was erased, basically blue balling your ending
I heard about an adventure game that was missing a key item if it detected a pirated copy. Someone was saying on a forum that he's reading a walkthrough and there should be an item on a horse/donkey/mule pouch and can't find the item. The response he got was "buy the game next time".
And also there was the famous thing in The Settlers 2 where the blacksmith kept forging pigs so you could never get into battle because you never had proper equipment if you pirated the game.
truth be told ive never cared if someone pirated a game while i paid. ill support series i like its not like games are expensive
3:49 to skip ad, right after Resident evil bit
Pirating Earthbound would make the game harder by tripling the encounter rate. Also there were set places in areas and even battles where the game would freeze up (one was during the final boss). Also it would randomly delete your save data
I believe there are 6 total checks for piracy in the game. 2 of the checks are anti piracy screens that appear if you are playing a pirated copy or an official copy on a PAL snes. The other anti piracy screen appears if the game has more than 8kb of SRAM. If you bypass those, it does the triple enemy spawn rates, sometimes spawning them in places they normally would not be, when entering certain areas, the game crashes, and when pokey deactivates the devils machine, the game freezes, making you reset the game with your save data gone
I'm pretty sure someone out there pirated The Witcher 2 so they can change the sex scenes on purpose
my favorite anti piracy measure is probably the Serious Sam one (iirc this was in Before First Encounter), where an invincible Arachnoid would always follow you and deal more damage than a normal Arachnoid.
Master Samwise Gamgee isn't useless, he's the true hero of lotr.
The days when we had to use copy protection documents to play adventure games in the 80s and 90s and serial keys.
some copy protection documents were fun like monkey island's but if you lost any of these codes or documents..... That's it. Sorry buddy, no more game for you unless you can crack it.
I remember the code disk for Monkey Island 2!
What is a copy protection document? Google only gives me stuff about protecting PDFs ç_ç
@@Poldovico A lot of games had paper documents with codes or passwords included in the box, the game would ask for the copy protection code and you would input it into the game
The fatal assumption about piracy is that each person who pirates is a lost sale - but this just isn't the case.
No the correct assumption is that each person who pirates is a thief, and this is the case.
@@TimeofRagnarok An assumption about purchasing patterns, like the one Mr. Z is talking about, isn't "debunked" because of your position on piracy. GTFO with the bad logic m8.
@@TimeofRagnarok miami hotline dev (believe it was that game) TOLD PEOPLE TO PIRATE HIS GAME as there was no legit way to buy the game in australia.
@@DanknDerpyGamer Miami hotline dev thinks otherwise.
@@TimeofRagnarok Theft keeps the number of copies on the market net neutral, piracy is a form of counterfeiting that increases the number of copies on the market. Indeed, there are many pirates who have legally purchased the game, and therefore no sales were lost.
The pirated version of Serious Sam 3 has a little pink scorpion that can't be killed, and chases you throughout the level, shooting you constantly. Fun times.
When developers try weird stuff like this to get pirates to buy the game, it usually just makes me think the game is broken or just won't work on my computer and I delete it and forget about it. If it doesn't work on the pirated version I'm definitely not going to pay money just in case it still doesn't work
It still succeeds in keeping you from enjoying the game for free. That's a moral victory despite not getting any monetary benefits from swashbucklers like you.
Yeah, right.
GMod has antipiracy measures?!
I thought PC games were easy to pirate, because you just need to either borrow from a friend or rent the game on CD-ROM, install it, return the disc, and download a crack that lets you bypass the CD check, *not* needing to bypass a check for a legitimate copy.
For the registered versions of DOS games, it was even easier (unless it was a rare user of old physical DRM techniques, although cracks and other bypasses exist for those, too), since you just needed to pass along a copy of the game on floppy disk or re-writable CD (or just download them from the "right" web sites once the Internet became popular).
Or for you modern PC gamers, simply have a friend log into his/her Steam or GOG account on your computer so you can install all their games for yourself (and use the offline method for playing Steam games).
So, SO many assholes were defending Denuvo at the launch of DMC5 and RE8 "it's only a couple of microseconds, if you say you notice it you're lying"
Remember those accounts and take notice of whatever they suddenly start talking about.
2:50 Watching sponsor solely because Pictionary's OST is a banger
Witcher with the fat granny mating with you has got to be the most comical one!
OK BUT WHERE CAN I GET THAT MORTAL KOMBAT REMIX AT THE END
TH-cam search 'royalty free mortal Kombat theme'
WMG kept copyright striking the video for the original MKII OST
@@ShanfredMetalface THANK YOU th-cam.com/video/sd8wRrwLySw/w-d-xo.html
I'm so glad these guys didn't try to point out the one that gets milked all the time when there comes the topic of piracy. GTA 4.
literally everybody knows about GTA 4s anti-piracy measures by this point so yeah good on them for not mentioning it.
Did you know, that anti-piracy video at the beginning was technically pirated itself? The music was included on dvds, when they only had the rights to be shown at one particular film festival. 😂
Or Serious Sam 3 that on a pirated copy spawned a giant pink scorpion that was following you around... And was indestructible.
The thumbnail really had me rolling.
I'm surprised you didn't did the Skullgirls one
Tell us, tell us!
Poor Samwise, he was not only a terrible character in that game, the developers were so aware that they made him a punishment
One thing to say, the EJB menu in MK II exists in all of Mortal Kombat games between MK 1 and ultimate MK 3, unfortunately it doesn't exist in MK 4.
the mk menu was well known by anyone who operated an arcade, it was the options menu for the game and it assisted with bookkeeping functions as well.
but its fair to say "most players probably didnt know how to get into the menu"
you missed tons of other examples of anti-piracy, like Deus Ex Human Revolution: jensen would wear an eyepatch that you cannot unequip.
My anti-piracy solution would be to jump you, scene-to-scene, straight to all the major spoilers