When Skyrim came out, me and my friends had the crazy idea that pirated copies should have started off with your execution as usual, but instead of being interrupted by a dragon, just always ending in your death no matter what.
Theo Snelson I had a friend who when came online I saw it said [redacted] playing half-life 3 when I paused my game like a bitch , and messaged him he said he was not playing anything while being offline and sent a fucking Lenny to me >:U
"It's not a bug in your game, but a bug in your moral code." Rocksteady staff member, when a person with a pirated copy of Arkham Asylum asked about the "bug".
sonic in the classic games: taps his foot while looking at the player impatiently. in sonic CD, if you do nothing for 3 minutes, sonic pretty much gives up and literally jumps off the map, causing an instant game over
You know they'd forget Seiken Densetsu 3 in that list, because that game has a little bit of personality in characters' idle animations. Hawk trying to busy himself, Carlie being well. Carlie. OutsideXBox tends to forget the good stuff on occasion, as if it's tradition.
very mad guy Sonic was my immediate first thought for idle animations lol Also in a PS1 version of Tetris Plus there was an "explorer" that you could help get to a door to escape the level of you cleared the correct block pattern before the ceiling came crushing down on him. But anyway if he got trapped between two blocks for too long he would tire out and fall asleep with a huge snot bubble coming from his nose lol was always amusing to me.
I found this entire video hilarious because I was going to do my College research paper on Copy Protection/Anti-Piracy Methods in games. Let me inform you of my personal favourite discoveries: - Puggsy: After you defeated the boss at the end of Junior Mode levels (said boss had reduced health if pirated), instead of a "Well Done!" screen with cheerful music, you'd get a relatively eerie screen which said "O.K. that's all the levels of Puggsy your allowed to play, now go and play a cartridge version of the game instead of this silly copy. Until then.......bye. Travellers Tales 93". Yes, the "your" typo is from the game, and there were really that many "..."s after "then". - Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2: If it detected you were playing a pirated copy, the game would play normally for all of three minutes, and then all of your stuff would explode, so you'd lose pretty much immediately. - Chrono Trigger: You'd be allowed to play the game until you first had to travel back in time. If your copy was detected to be pirated (or Game Genie/Pro Action Replay cheats were being used) the warp sequence would never end, meaning you were effectively stuck. You could work around it with turning off cheats, but for pirated copies? Not so much. - Earthbound: Dear lord, Earthbound. If a pirated copy was detected earlier on, it would just give you an anti-piracy message and end there. If you got past that, the game could still detect it was pirated BECAUSE you worked around it, and would spawn a LOT more enemies than usual, and in places they shouldn't even spawn, making the game tremendously more difficult. If the player STILL pushed through, this is where it gets cruel but karmic. The game would freeze after the first part of the final boss, making the player need to reset. When the game was reloaded? ALL save files would be deleted. Spyro: Year Of The Dragon took a similar approach to this, and my god, I still love it so you should look it up if you're interested. Finally, as a bonus to one already in the video, there was a well-known incident when a pirate accidentally outed themselves for the Batman: Arkham Asylum "glitch". When they complained about the "bug" on the official Rocksteady message board, the devs responded: "It's not a bug in the game's code, it's a bug in your moral code." I could have gone into more detail on how some of it works, but decided that'd probably be boring. Plus, this comment is WAY too long as it is. Enjoy my specific line of knowledge, internet. This is what College does to you.
One of the best things I read about those kind of anti-piracy measures was one user who reported the 'bug,' much like that Arkham Asylum player did, and was told it was because he was a filthy pirate, and that he should just buy the game. He responded with "Ha ha, let's call that 'Plan B'." I mean, that just makes you want to go "Fuck off."
You guys left out Sonic 06! The pirated version of that game had weird glitches and terrible load times that pretty much stopped players from...What? Your saying that was the finished published game? Oh... Well shit
Earthbound. 5 layers of piracy protection and the last one triggers during the final boss, Giygas. It freezes the game, deletes your save files and resets the game. That just hurts.
No mention of Serious Sam 3? If you pirated that game, a giant pink human-scorpion monster would chase you around forever until you died. And he's invincible. Fun times.
@Gaming Master Anthony, yeah i think they kinda get in your way so much it becomes impossible to play the game. lol There was also one about killing a cow spawning this ridiculously difficult enemy that gives you no reward for beating.
You didn't mention that it took a bit to show up but then it would follow you even between levels with its endless, invincible assault. And again, pirates went to forums to complain about a glitched enemy and many luls were had.
Edward, I'm one of those people. It sounds like a fun (if frustrating) challenge. Would probably make a pretty good drinking game at lan parties too. Every time you die to the scorpion, take a shot and vacate the chair.
Sure, let's forget "Games for windows - live" system that is no longer supported.. And then you spend half a week searching to make your old games you bought (Rip Fable) just playable. always online is a nightmare and should have never existed in the first place ( hence why we do not see them a lot nowadays)
When I was in elementary school my Grandma bought me a CD-Rom copy of Kings Quest VI that didn't even come with the physical manual, therefore making it impossible to solve the puzzle cliff unless I found another person with the game to copy their answers from (I did find that person). Makes me wonder if KMart was selling bootleg games or what.
I liked Nintendo's answer to Pokémon Sun and Moon pirates; let them play, but as soon as they connect to the internet, ban them from all online features and the Nintendo eshop. Best part was people complaining how they were never going to buy a Nintendo product again. Newsflash; that's what got you into this mess!
drinnik You can complete the game without internet though... I'd think they'd do something like make all of your Pokémon Lvl 1 forever but I guess that Nintendo is more vengeful than that
drinnik Yeah, but at the same time the "pirates" then just got handed the game to them for free by Nintendo themselves lol. "Oh damnit, a lot of people have been pirating Pokemon as of late, we need to fix this now! Hmmm.... I know! We'll just let them pirate it, still be able to play the fi'll game which no glitches, or anything like it (same as if they had paid); and then we'll just not let them give us money!" That's some brilliant work done by Nintendo and Pokemon their, what an idea. Yes reprimand those who downloaded and/or obtained your (or any) game illegally, but you as a business don't do so by literally not allowing the person to spend any money on said game; it's very counter productive.
I remember a game from the same era having a code sheet with black ink on dark brown paper which was impossible to photocopy. There was another that had you look up words in the game manual, which required pirates to photocopy the whole manual.
Worms from the early nineties had the black glossy text on black matt paper code sheet, but a friends dad had a scanner that could read it if you adjusted the contrast. nostalgia :-)
First Elder Scrolls - Arena had one of these "write a word pfrom page something etc" at the end of tutorial level. Problem is i bought TES Anniversary but it didn't had manuals for Arena and Daggerfall, so i ended up on the old internet looking for specific words :)
I was reminded of a game I had as a kid, "The Island of Dr. Brain". The first puzzle involves finding and getting to the island, which you do by parachuting out of plane. The catch is, the island's location varies: you're given a symbol which corresponds to a specific longitude and latitude found in the manual. Enter the wrong coordinates and you jump out of the plane and parachute into the middle of the ocean. King's Quest 6 also had some anti-piracy measures. The game came with a manual, "Guidebook to the Land of the Green Isles". A lot of it was just background lore (it was a fun read as a kid), but there was one section of the game where the manual was necessary. Basically, your character had to ascend the "Cliffs of Logic", a sheer cliff wall with puzzles carved into it consisting of secret codes, riddles and phrases that could only be found in the guidebook. Answering correctly caused steps to appear, allowing you to climb up to the next puzzle. Answering incorrectly caused the steps to disappear and you'd fall to your death. There was also another section, a labyrinth filled with death traps, which had a subtly drawn map in the guidebook. I didn't catch on to that, though, and I managed to get through the labyrinth through trial and error.
I found one that is common for non-pirated and phone games. Gameplay Tickets. Start a level, spend a ticket. Restart a level, spend a ticket. Out of tickets, wait for a day, or feed them money.
Rakan O I prefer the normal way with advertisements. Look at choices or cliffhanger on the mobile store. On any story you have to pay to get diamonds for a good option or even to just change your clothes into something nice. Its ridiculous. :(
Jamal Howourth yeah that is annoying but I thought they were talking about games like candy crush and shit like that where you can play buy then wait for like an hour or so to get the energy back to play again or you can just throw you credit card at it for energy
It's not just that. There's a part in Batman: Arkham Asylum where you need to glide and grapple over the Joker toxin filled room. Pirates can't glide or grapple, so they just keep falling into the toxin and dying over and over and over again. It's pretty hilarious, really.
PJ Emrey: There's a few companies always jostling for that position. As I recall, Comcast and E.A. have each held that particular dishonor at various times, and they're both regulars on the Top 20 list.
You mustn't forget "Crysis Warhead", which replaced the pirate's ammo with chickens that dealt no damage. The only way to beat a pirated game was to be determined enough to kill every soldier, tank and alien robot that crosses your path with the only effective weapon left to you: your fists.
tbh, if they were that determined, I would've given them a free copy as clearly money is an issue in their household. I mean, I cant think of any pirate that would be so dedicated to keep on playing a broken game. The only people who would go through shit to finish a game are hardcore fans.
+I am Johu *after being caught.* And their claim is the worry about your battery life. But it's nothing compared to what one can find when casually looking through your own browser or one of the webpages that you're used to:\
It's also worth mentioning that some games asked you to *turn to page 122 for example* and read the 3rd word on the forth sentence in the second paragraph, meaning *you would have to photocopy the entire manual to a game* , that would at least cost you a few bob in paper and printer ink.
I used to work for a visual novel localization company that was having a lot of trouble with 4chan pirates. The programmer was able to make alterations in the Western release that sensed if a game had been hacked, and usually just put up a screen saying so if anyone tried to play a pirated copy. But for "Boob Wars" (yes, this is a real game they put out and it's exactly what you think it is), the programmer instead made all but the big sexy ending available to the player. Once they got to that point, a new scene was written in where the main character was chastised for piracy and lamented that he should have just paid for the game, at which point the game ended. It got so popular that not only did people buy the game legally, they asked the company to make the "pirate ending" accessible in legal copies so they didn't have to break the law to see it.
And under DRM protected games, since they can't detect pirated copies otherwise. It gets even better when two weeks after release discovered that due to a bug in the system, it also affected all legitimate copies, and most of those people they had claimed were pirates on their forums were actually legitimate customers affected by a game-breaking bug in their DRM... Oh. the irony!
Wouldn’t be surprised if sims 5 just comes all pixilated, and there is a 70 dollar dlc to make it more detailed pixilation, and then another 150 dollars after that to get rid of the pixilation.
Actually, they’ll charge you 10 dollar for every single pixel. The minimum resolution will be 1080p so that’s 2,073,600 pixels. Times 10, comes down to 20,736,000 dollar for the base game.
when i think "sims" and "pixel", i can only think of something hilarious that happened when i played the sims 3. my sim was a firefighter, but sometimes he would not switch to his uniform when going to work (he would spin around like he changed clothes, but would still wear the same clothing). if he just got out of the shower, he would stay naked with no pixelation. i could no longer play with a straight face after that
Wait... how do they look like without the pixels? Did EA actually bother giving them... y'know, private parts? Since they're censored all the time, I would guess they have no reason to give them those.
This is less "7 Ways Developers Tried to Stop People from Playing Their Game" and more "6 Anti-piracy Measures in Games + 1 Anti-child measure" Honestly what I was initially expecting from the title was those whole "Hey, you should take a break" things that games nowadays do And by "games nowadays" I mean only Nintendo games And mobile games, but those only say it cause they want your cash
that stupid brain training game on nintendo ds comes to mind... so many puzzles and games etc but could only unlock them one per day... but you could get around by changing date and time on the device.. was so stupid.
Yes, that's a brilliant way to prevent piracy. No one's ever lost their booklet before. Hey there's the disc for my original The Sims game that my parents bought when I was 14 ... Where's the booklet? Side note: when I was growing up, my parents copied all our games and music onto new floppy discs and cassette tapes (later CDs). Why? Because they wanted to be sure my brother and I wouldn't break, wear out, or scratch the original. They wouldn't even have known where to get a pirated version if they tried and probably still couldn't find one.
I'm pretty sure I've seen it too, but I can't seem to find it... Edit: Scratch that. I was referring to one of Rooster Teeth's top fives. Thought Outsidexbox had made it, for some reason.
The richest, Whatculture, Top 10's and fuck knows how many other top I have on my sub list, I see duplicates atleast 1-2 times a week, you'll learn to stop asking that question soon and to just take them as they come
I recall having had at least one game where you needed to put a piece of red plastic over the codes pages in order to read it. The commonly available black and white photocopiers at the time could not produce a useful image of the code page. without the filter, they would give you a light grey square. and with the filter, it would be a dark grey square. And back in the floppy era, some manufacturers used custom disk formats, which would would break the game if you tried to copy it onto a normallly foratted disc.
That was also a common thing for hint books back in the day. You'd have the red filter so you could reveal only the particular hint you needed in order to progress through the game.
Anyone who even thinks about playing any Soulsborne game without a controller is a heathen and should burn. Unless it were for some kind of masochistic challenge run- which i think we can all agree would be hilarious.
The other way the sims series has tried to stop people playing their games is to release awful, tacky and badly thought out cash grabs, bowling stuff anyone?
I actually liked bowling stuff. Fitness stuff was dumb because it added absolutely nothing new. Literally every single thing in that pack was already there except the rock wall, which nobody gives a crap about
I remember my brothers and I memorizing the answers to the questions to get into Leisure Suit Larry as kids. Sometimes it took several tries, but getting in was an accomplishment. We were too young to understand much of the content, but the parents were generally okay with it.
Given the graphic quality of the day, you really had to _know_ what it was to understand it anyway. It is not like today when any kid can google some random letter combination, press "images" and find HD quality pornographical videos about it.
Wait. If developers know which players have pirated the game, then why don't they just make the games literally unplayable. Like literally you start the game and nothing happens just a black screen with no noise? This has really confused me!
My guess is that the groups that pirate these games don't necessarily test the game rigorously before releasing the cracked version. Something that stops the game from working outright would be noticed, whereas an introduced bug might not be. This would then be far more inconvenient for the players of the pirated copies.
Max Chatterji well, pirating is illegal, so, one way to catch a criminal is to trick him into committing that crime, and I doubt you can "accidentally" pirate games. they would rat themselves out by complaining about that specific bug. besides solving a problem is better than pushing it off for later
If you wanted a company that was notorious for it's anti-piracy policies, Konami was well known for doing that in the 90's with many of their NES games. For example, If you bootlegged Bucky O'Hare, then the difficulty would be permanently stuck on Hard Mode where a single hit could kill you (alternatively, this can also be enabled if you put in HARD! as the password). or TMNT 3 where the boss fight with normal Shredder would be pointless since Shredder was invincible if the game was pirated.
Apparently, if you pirated Witcher 2, the hot scene where Triss magically disrobes and you get to see her glorious, erm "enchantments" turns into an old hag instead.
Oh, I know of a few ways what developers prevented you from playing the game without being battered and/or inconvenienced. Example would be how you would be hunted by an invincible monster in Serious Sam 3. Certainly gave a survival-horror experience, but still fairly inconvenient.
No, no, the Serious Room ending occurs when you type cheats into the console. The narrator then puts you in a sealed room and tells you to think about what you've done. Forever.
The sims does pixelate the "nudity", but if you have a mod to remove the pixelation, you will find that the sims are as smooth as a Ken doll. (Unless you mod that too!)
Pirates got around in less than a few hours. Its more like "stupid things devs wasted time on fruitlessly that also affected non-pirated versions so people who actually did buy the game are the ones that got fucked over."
+outsidexbox My personal favorite was Star Tropics, and the letter you had to dip in water. or The one where on the back of the instruction booklet it showed a pair of jeans which had 100+ paint splotches on it. You would have to identify the color of a particular paint splotch. That is something black and with copy machines couldn't do. It would also be impossible to color it in your self as the darker colors would show up black and you couldn't color over them.
Well, personally, from games that tried to stop you from playing them in really weird way, I have two Metal Gear games in my mind - original Metal Gear from MSX, and Metal Gear Solid 1. On the Metal Gear, when you were about to find out who's the commander of the Outer Heaven Fortress, Big Boss called you and said that mission is aborted and you have to turn your console off, so you wouldn't find out that he's the commander (although MGSV implied that Venom Snake was commander of Outer Heaven, while the real Big Boss was in Zanzibar by the time of it, still, I believe that it wasn't planned by Kojima back in the MSX times). Sure, it haven't stopped you from playing, and it wasn't about the piracy, but it tried. However, Metal Gear Solid from 1998 tried to stop the pirates - by implying that Meryl's Codec number that was required to progres in the storyline was on the back of the disc case with game. Internet wasn't that common thing back in the 90's, so people had problems with it. You could still shoot in the dark and you would've finally guessed or simply borrow a disc case from friend that own his copy or something, but game still tried.
Passtheremote - Lol Mantis took me forever anyways. Eventually after losing a ton of times, I got the codec message telling me to change controller ports. Blicz B - I don't ever remember this out of the 5 times that I have beat the game. Did it say it on pirated copies or something? Out of all of the times that I played it, I never had to look at the case for reference while I played it.
Have anti-piracy measures ever hurt people who legally bought the games? I imagine either through used copies or bugs. And I'm asking on like a major scale not just no user manual to let you know the way to solve puzzles like in King's Quest 6.
Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box (Professor Layton and Pandora’s Box if you’re in the UK) has a mandatory puzzle where the only way to solve it is to take out the paper train ticket attached to the manual and look at the information on it to find something not written on the in game one. Of course, being a DS game, it was possible to legally buy it from the eShop before it shut down and get a digital copy, so you would be unable to progress through the game if you did.
When I played Mirror's Edge and I couldn't jump anymore, I was honestly looking around the internet on how to fix this bug. When I didn't find anything, I eventually stopped playing it. Had no idea that it was an anti-piracy trick.
The problem with these schemes is how often their execution results in them triggering for legitimate user. The Batman one in particular *plagued* legit users. What's worse, these users - legitimate customers who *bought* the game, would go looking for support, only to be insulted and accused of stealing. In a few cases, the DRM scheme would trigger for legit users, but *NOT* for pirated users, because the pirates found it and quickly patched it out, meaning that *the only people who actually COULD play the game were the people who pirated it.*
I remember my friend complained about Mirror's Edge when they first got it. They couldn't get past the tutorial. "She won't jump, this game is so broken!" It was priceless. They never did admit it was pirated.
The comBat (sorry) in Batman: AA was completely simple, yet fun in how you can just keep going with satisfying finishers, then when AC, AO, and AK came out, they did absolutely everything they could to stop you doing that, having to do fucking impossible button combinations all at once with about 100 enemies all with half of them being brutes and guys with Stun batons.
thesupersonicstig They started to add in way too many different enemy types that it made it a bit too hard at times and not as enjoyable or as badass as the original game. It's understandable though.
Two examples i can think of are in Earthbound and Gyakuten Kenji 2. In Earthbound, if you try to play a pirated copy, there ends up being an overabundance of enemies making battles ridiculously hard, and if you make it all the way to the end of the game, Pokey will "turn off the Devil's Machine" as he usually does, only for the game to crash and delete all your save data. Guess pirates really can't grasp the true form of Giygas' attack. In Gyakuten Kenji 2, also known as Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth 2: Prosecutor's Path in the fanhack version (ironic for this discussion...) the game wen out of it's way to discourage pirates of the original Japanese version by replacing all text in the game with the language of Borginian, from the fictional country of Borginia that gets referred to in both AA4 and AAI, and replaces all the evidence pictures with Xs. Better go study up on your Borginian if you're part of the smuggling ring.
Actually, the piracy feature in Game Dev Tycoon is either not really an anti-piracy action, or it's really badly implemented, since it triggers in the legal Steam release occasionally as well.
You guys should do a video on games that don't let you cheat. Undertale has a hilarious "cheater ending" for people who mess with game files, and it can't be the only game to be mean/funny to players who try to cheat.
The notion of pirates complaining about a game that they stole being faulty makes me physically sick. It’s like a hijacker nicking a car and then demanding that the owner pay for the window the robber smashed in the act of nicking the car.
nah lol, i started pirating games when i was 12, as long as you have someone to show you how to do it its easy to do without getting viruses or anything, now that i make money i dont pirate anymore on principal alone, its stupid easy and any dumbass can do it
Misha Steele Think about it if you went and stole my Charger out of the yard wouldn't you consider it crazy to then turn around come back to my house complaining about how it cut off on you when you got too far away from my car keys. It's like just waving a flag saying I'm a thief. No I don't like how some companies over inflate their price. Adobe charges far too much for photoshop for instance but it's their product so I either 1) Come up with my own 2) Find a free or cheaper option (Paintshop Pro for Instance) 3) Pony up the cash for photoshop or 4) Do without it.
Every list on this topic forgets about dark souls. They put 4 late game bosses into the tutorial of the game to halt progress. Side note. With the lack of printed books nowadays you could bring back a few of these piracy solutions
booce thebooce one of the games had about 400 copies stolen 3-4 weeks before launch. So the devs put them ther when they downloaded the day 1 patch. Then removed them after launch
ohhh my bad. but even then, i don't remember that happening. in dark souls 1 they invaded people who got the game ahead of launch with lvl 99 phantoms, and in dark souls 2 you got screamers. but that's all i can find edit: screamer is fake
My favorite story about how a game stops pirates from pirating it is Stardew Valley. How does a one-man indie farming simulator go about stopping people from playing it illegally, you ask? Well... ...the base game was simply so charming that people who illegally downloaded it would feel guilty and, of their own free will, go buy the game legitimately. That, and other Stardew Valley players would begin buying copies for people who couldn't afford it and would otherwise have pirated it. It's my favorite story for a reason.
Serious Sam 3 had an anti-piracy measure where some super-powerful enemy spawned in that you had no chance of defeating. Iirc Croteam even updated it several times, doing so whenever pirate groups managed to remove it, so the pirates either had to stick with older versions of the game or go through the trouble of hacking the binaries all over again.
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When Skyrim came out, me and my friends had the crazy idea that pirated copies should have started off with your execution as usual, but instead of being interrupted by a dragon, just always ending in your death no matter what.
That would've been perfect
😂
Gay!
no u
God damn it, why didn't I think of that one?
Valve are the best at this, so far nobody has managed to play Half Life 3
Theo Snelson best comment. Ever
Theo Snelson they are best at it
Theo Snelson this is the best thing I've seen all day
And they prevented the leaks..... ITS COMING OUT ON WEDNESDAY, RIGHT?! IM NOT CRAZY.....
Theo Snelson I had a friend who when came online
I saw it said [redacted] playing half-life 3
when I paused my game like a bitch , and messaged him
he said he was not playing anything while being offline
and sent a fucking Lenny to me
>:U
"It's not a bug in your game, but a bug in your moral code."
Rocksteady staff member, when a person with a pirated copy of Arkham Asylum asked about the "bug".
Somebody call the fire dept... This man just got half vaporized...
@@oceanbytez847 Call in the science dept... This man just got businesse's causes mixed up...
I luve rocksteady
Hope it has a Patch
@@luisalbertoarenasaraya4579 wdym a patch it only appears if you pirate the game
I have a suggestion: how about a video of the best waiting animations when you left your character just standing there.
Benny Boom "idle animations"
sonic in the classic games: taps his foot while looking at the player impatiently. in sonic CD, if you do nothing for 3 minutes, sonic pretty much gives up and literally jumps off the map, causing an instant game over
very mad guy lmao that's amazing
You know they'd forget Seiken Densetsu 3 in that list, because that game has a little bit of personality in characters' idle animations. Hawk trying to busy himself, Carlie being well. Carlie. OutsideXBox tends to forget the good stuff on occasion, as if it's tradition.
very mad guy Sonic was my immediate first thought for idle animations lol
Also in a PS1 version of Tetris Plus there was an "explorer" that you could help get to a door to escape the level of you cleared the correct block pattern before the ceiling came crushing down on him. But anyway if he got trapped between two blocks for too long he would tire out and fall asleep with a huge snot bubble coming from his nose lol was always amusing to me.
I found this entire video hilarious because I was going to do my College research paper on Copy Protection/Anti-Piracy Methods in games. Let me inform you of my personal favourite discoveries:
- Puggsy: After you defeated the boss at the end of Junior Mode levels (said boss had reduced health if pirated), instead of a "Well Done!" screen with cheerful music, you'd get a relatively eerie screen which said "O.K. that's all the levels of Puggsy your allowed to play, now go and play a cartridge version of the game instead of this silly copy. Until then.......bye. Travellers Tales 93". Yes, the "your" typo is from the game, and there were really that many "..."s after "then".
- Command & Conquer: Red Alert 2: If it detected you were playing a pirated copy, the game would play normally for all of three minutes, and then all of your stuff would explode, so you'd lose pretty much immediately.
- Chrono Trigger: You'd be allowed to play the game until you first had to travel back in time. If your copy was detected to be pirated (or Game Genie/Pro Action Replay cheats were being used) the warp sequence would never end, meaning you were effectively stuck. You could work around it with turning off cheats, but for pirated copies? Not so much.
- Earthbound: Dear lord, Earthbound. If a pirated copy was detected earlier on, it would just give you an anti-piracy message and end there. If you got past that, the game could still detect it was pirated BECAUSE you worked around it, and would spawn a LOT more enemies than usual, and in places they shouldn't even spawn, making the game tremendously more difficult. If the player STILL pushed through, this is where it gets cruel but karmic. The game would freeze after the first part of the final boss, making the player need to reset. When the game was reloaded? ALL save files would be deleted. Spyro: Year Of The Dragon took a similar approach to this, and my god, I still love it so you should look it up if you're interested.
Finally, as a bonus to one already in the video, there was a well-known incident when a pirate accidentally outed themselves for the Batman: Arkham Asylum "glitch". When they complained about the "bug" on the official Rocksteady message board, the devs responded: "It's not a bug in the game's code, it's a bug in your moral code."
I could have gone into more detail on how some of it works, but decided that'd probably be boring. Plus, this comment is WAY too long as it is. Enjoy my specific line of knowledge, internet. This is what College does to you.
+ThatChannelYouDontKnow this was actually rather entertaining to read actually.
serious sam 3 that had an invincible scorpion in pirated versions
Neat info! Thanks for taking the time
One of the best things I read about those kind of anti-piracy measures was one user who reported the 'bug,' much like that Arkham Asylum player did, and was told it was because he was a filthy pirate, and that he should just buy the game. He responded with "Ha ha, let's call that 'Plan B'."
I mean, that just makes you want to go "Fuck off."
lol k nerd
You guys left out Sonic 06! The pirated version of that game had weird glitches and terrible load times that pretty much stopped players from...What? Your saying that was the finished published game?
Oh...
Well shit
Hobgoblin 99 clever...
Hobgoblin 99 Lol dude. I don't know where to begin about how good ur joke is
(Bows Graciously)
Lol. And that was Hobgoblin 99, up next up, Sonic Boom!
why is that
Earthbound. 5 layers of piracy protection and the last one triggers during the final boss, Giygas. It freezes the game, deletes your save files and resets the game. That just hurts.
John Bastian wicked 😂
And sometimes affected legitimate copies, too. Wicked in deed!
also the dramatically increased encounter rate
I think that was layer 4.
That must be really really hurt...
No mention of Serious Sam 3? If you pirated that game, a giant pink human-scorpion monster would chase you around forever until you died. And he's invincible. Fun times.
Because they have mentioned that thing in other videos.
Fun times? Do you have personal experience?
I'm still shocked that hasn't been made into a twitch speed run
my favorite is Bethesda's anti piracy method, all those crazy bugs that crash the game if you have a bad copy...
yeah, it's a shame Bethesda fouled up and forgot to fix them all on the real copies.......
Wasn't there one where the kids kept following you everywhere on one of the Witcher games? That sounds funny but I have never seen it.
Commander 64 really? That sounds creepy. Especially if cd red put creepy children laughter for the pirated copies
@Gaming Master Anthony, yeah i think they kinda get in your way so much it becomes impossible to play the game. lol
There was also one about killing a cow spawning this ridiculously difficult enemy that gives you no reward for beating.
Commander 64 that’s for everyone so players don’t get infinite leather and experience. so it’s more of an anti cheating thing.
How to stop ppl from playing a game... Put an EA on the cover.
It didn't work with Mirror's Edge.
Djimmi's Sarcophagus that's from a time when EA could actually release a game that doesn't piss on the player
Lucian Feros: If only that were actually the case. EA wouldn't still be in business if there weren't so many people buying their games.
Correction:
How to encourage piracy... Put an EA logo on the cover.
😂😂😂😂😂
Unfortunately, yes, Clint Eastwood was in a musical and did sing that song. It's as bad as it sounds.
Stephen Lehman
Nostalgia Critic?
Not as bad as Lee Marvin's!
Oscar McCormack I know because of the simpsoms
It wasn't that bad actually...
So, this movie in this one old simpson episode was actually a real thing and not just a weird parody?
Serious Sam 3 had players followed by a fast, invincible, scorpion enemy on pirated versions.
Edward Geeves Sounds fun now, doesn't it? Makes the game a little more challenging, and we all love a good challenge, don't we?
Grooorg Laserdeth lol If you think it's going to be fun and challenging then your gonna have a bad time.
You didn't mention that it took a bit to show up but then it would follow you even between levels with its endless, invincible assault.
And again, pirates went to forums to complain about a glitched enemy and many luls were had.
I have seen some people want the option to enable the invinci-scorpion on legitimate copies of SS3.
Edward, I'm one of those people. It sounds like a fun (if frustrating) challenge. Would probably make a pretty good drinking game at lan parties too. Every time you die to the scorpion, take a shot and vacate the chair.
Weird way games tried to stop people playing them?
DRM. Always online. EA.
Aw shit those are all synonyms.
Quincy L Jones Ubusoft keeps you from playing games even if you are online so there's that
Mandatory DLCS of destiny stopped many people!
Sure, let's forget "Games for windows - live" system that is no longer supported.. And then you spend half a week searching to make your old games you bought (Rip Fable) just playable.
always online is a nightmare and should have never existed in the first place ( hence why we do not see them a lot nowadays)
Don't forget about deleting offline multiplayer for racing games.
If i put my age to 1800 years old, did leisure suite Larry's game asking me about Roman Empire?
Ernest Jay probably lol
Well? Would it? Someone needs to try that
The data entry field probably only allots for two digits.
When I was in elementary school my Grandma bought me a CD-Rom copy of Kings Quest VI that didn't even come with the physical manual, therefore making it impossible to solve the puzzle cliff unless I found another person with the game to copy their answers from (I did find that person).
Makes me wonder if KMart was selling bootleg games or what.
It sounds like your grandma just didn't love you enough to buy you the real game.
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I liked Nintendo's answer to Pokémon Sun and Moon pirates; let them play, but as soon as they connect to the internet, ban them from all online features and the Nintendo eshop.
Best part was people complaining how they were never going to buy a Nintendo product again.
Newsflash; that's what got you into this mess!
r0bw00d
You do to play multiplayer games though
r0bw00d
I don't know, i can't tell what games you play.
Also you need internet to use youtube
drinnik
You can complete the game without internet though... I'd think they'd do something like make all of your Pokémon Lvl 1 forever but I guess that Nintendo is more vengeful than that
drinnik Yeah, but at the same time the "pirates" then just got handed the game to them for free by Nintendo themselves lol. "Oh damnit, a lot of people have been pirating Pokemon as of late, we need to fix this now! Hmmm.... I know! We'll just let them pirate it, still be able to play the fi'll game which no glitches, or anything like it (same as if they had paid); and then we'll just not let them give us money!" That's some brilliant work done by Nintendo and Pokemon their, what an idea. Yes reprimand those who downloaded and/or obtained your (or any) game illegally, but you as a business don't do so by literally not allowing the person to spend any money on said game; it's very counter productive.
Tyler Cooper it was a good idea, because they stopped them from pirating in the future
The Sims has more kitchen fires than parenthood? My parents would disagree. (Though my little brother didn't confine himself to the kitchen...)
Brandon Roberts You're starting to sound like my brother.
It looks like EA spent more time creating anti-cheat glitches than they did with their actual game
-has a master's degree in wumbology yup, none of their games is good
Then the put the actual in dlc
Hello there Patrick clone
I thought Sims 4 was a good game
Oh stop the sims 4 just had a rough start
I remember a game from the same era having a code sheet with black ink on dark brown paper which was impossible to photocopy. There was another that had you look up words in the game manual, which required pirates to photocopy the whole manual.
Worms from the early nineties had the black glossy text on black matt paper code sheet, but a friends dad had a scanner that could read it if you adjusted the contrast. nostalgia :-)
What about an old fashioned pencil and paper?
TMNT for the PC had a Countermeasure like that.
First Elder Scrolls - Arena had one of these "write a word pfrom page something etc" at the end of tutorial level. Problem is i bought TES Anniversary but it didn't had manuals for Arena and Daggerfall, so i ended up on the old internet looking for specific words :)
tons of games back then used the manual for auth check
I was reminded of a game I had as a kid, "The Island of Dr. Brain". The first puzzle involves finding and getting to the island, which you do by parachuting out of plane. The catch is, the island's location varies: you're given a symbol which corresponds to a specific longitude and latitude found in the manual. Enter the wrong coordinates and you jump out of the plane and parachute into the middle of the ocean.
King's Quest 6 also had some anti-piracy measures. The game came with a manual, "Guidebook to the Land of the Green Isles". A lot of it was just background lore (it was a fun read as a kid), but there was one section of the game where the manual was necessary. Basically, your character had to ascend the "Cliffs of Logic", a sheer cliff wall with puzzles carved into it consisting of secret codes, riddles and phrases that could only be found in the guidebook. Answering correctly caused steps to appear, allowing you to climb up to the next puzzle. Answering incorrectly caused the steps to disappear and you'd fall to your death. There was also another section, a labyrinth filled with death traps, which had a subtly drawn map in the guidebook. I didn't catch on to that, though, and I managed to get through the labyrinth through trial and error.
I found one that is common for non-pirated and phone games.
Gameplay Tickets. Start a level, spend a ticket. Restart a level, spend a ticket. Out of tickets, wait for a day, or feed them money.
Homerboy44 but that's business lol and that usually effects free to play games so that's how they make.there money
Rakan O I prefer the normal way with advertisements. Look at choices or cliffhanger on the mobile store. On any story you have to pay to get diamonds for a good option or even to just change your clothes into something nice. Its ridiculous. :(
Jamal Howourth yeah that is annoying but I thought they were talking about games like candy crush and shit like that where you can play buy then wait for like an hour or so to get the energy back to play again or you can just throw you credit card at it for energy
Or its energy
What about No Man's Sky, the devs made the game so boring and underdeveloped that kept players from playing.
M P I wish that was for pirates
I pirated that game and still felt cheated ...
why the hell would you pirate it in the first place lol
Only 2 people had met themselves in-game. They didn't undervelope it. They did too much and that's why it sucks.
Ben Dover they couldn't even interact with each other and that was only added in a more recent update
tbh, i would play a game where batman grapples to a different dimension
MARTi Batman: The Grapple of Dimensions
Imagine Batman crossed with Portal!
@@jasonross6727 Boi let me tell you 'bout a game called 'Lego Dimensions'
I would like your comment but 69 likes is perfect
It's not just that. There's a part in Batman: Arkham Asylum where you need to glide and grapple over the Joker toxin filled room. Pirates can't glide or grapple, so they just keep falling into the toxin and dying over and over and over again. It's pretty hilarious, really.
Maybe if ea put less anti piracy content into games and more actual content they wouldn't be the most hated company in the world.
grayd98 no the internet would never let it go
Nah that honor goes to Comcast
PJ Emrey: There's a few companies always jostling for that position. As I recall, Comcast and E.A. have each held that particular dishonor at various times, and they're both regulars on the Top 20 list.
Why add anti piracy... there is nothing to pirate in the first place.
*in America
You mustn't forget "Crysis Warhead", which replaced the pirate's ammo with chickens that dealt no damage. The only way to beat a pirated game was to be determined enough to kill every soldier, tank and alien robot that crosses your path with the only effective weapon left to you: your fists.
tbh, if they were that determined, I would've given them a free copy as clearly money is an issue in their household. I mean, I cant think of any pirate that would be so dedicated to keep on playing a broken game. The only people who would go through shit to finish a game are hardcore fans.
I suppose pirates might use a Xerox machine... but I imagine they would prefer to use Canons.
Ba dum tss!
That's one way to sail through detection.
The fact that EA feels entitled to ashame someone for their immoral behaviour (like piracy) is very ironic indeed.
So Andy crush crushed Andy's bank account. the name proved more true than he expected...
Divyansh Dewan
Oh lord 😹
Oh Andy. Just playing regular Candy Crush will crush your bank account, you didn’t need your own version!
lol like apple slowing down older phones
Just passing by ? I play it on PS3 its fine but the graphics...
Just passing by ? Apple literally admitted to slowing down older iPhones in order to get consumers to buy the latest version
+I am Johu
*after being caught.* And their claim is the worry about your battery life. But it's nothing compared to what one can find when casually looking through your own browser or one of the webpages that you're used to:\
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@Stix N' Stones ummm.. he was agreeing with you and adding on
"you're thinking of Pocahontas"
D E A D
It's also worth mentioning that some games asked you to *turn to page 122 for example* and read the 3rd word on the forth sentence in the second paragraph, meaning *you would have to photocopy the entire manual to a game* , that would at least cost you a few bob in paper and printer ink.
Hey, if they're not getting your money someone is.
I used to work for a visual novel localization company that was having a lot of trouble with 4chan pirates. The programmer was able to make alterations in the Western release that sensed if a game had been hacked, and usually just put up a screen saying so if anyone tried to play a pirated copy.
But for "Boob Wars" (yes, this is a real game they put out and it's exactly what you think it is), the programmer instead made all but the big sexy ending available to the player. Once they got to that point, a new scene was written in where the main character was chastised for piracy and lamented that he should have just paid for the game, at which point the game ended.
It got so popular that not only did people buy the game legally, they asked the company to make the "pirate ending" accessible in legal copies so they didn't have to break the law to see it.
The game dev tycoons example should be in the dictionary next to irony.
Well, yes.
And under DRM protected games, since they can't detect pirated copies otherwise.
It gets even better when two weeks after release discovered that due to a bug in the system, it also affected all legitimate copies, and most of those people they had claimed were pirates on their forums were actually legitimate customers affected by a game-breaking bug in their DRM...
Oh. the irony!
Wouldn’t be surprised if sims 5 just comes all pixilated, and there is a 70 dollar dlc to make it more detailed pixilation, and then another 150 dollars after that to get rid of the pixilation.
Oh, and buy the furniture with actual real money! And pay 50 cents for every step you take!
@@masterblaster2678 You forgot about paying real money for your house! And it scales with realistic pricing as well!
Actually, they’ll charge you 10 dollar for every single pixel. The minimum resolution will be 1080p so that’s 2,073,600 pixels. Times 10, comes down to 20,736,000 dollar for the base game.
Stfu... you are giving them more money making ideas. We already have pay to play that would be brutal and kill gaming.
Sock Munchies Are we still doing this circlejerk?
Wouldn't "tried to stop pirates playing them" make more sense? This makes it sound like they made these to go after legitimate customers.
Leisure Suit Larry always uses it
Kids aren't pirates
*always
when i think "sims" and "pixel", i can only think of something hilarious that happened when i played the sims 3. my sim was a firefighter, but sometimes he would not switch to his uniform when going to work (he would spin around like he changed clothes, but would still wear the same clothing). if he just got out of the shower, he would stay naked with no pixelation. i could no longer play with a straight face after that
Wait... how do they look like without the pixels? Did EA actually bother giving them... y'know, private parts? Since they're censored all the time, I would guess they have no reason to give them those.
Sassy Celestial Dragon Have you ever seen a Ken doll? It’s a 1 on 1 copy
Michael Jackson: The Experience. Pretty hard to play a music and rhythm game with vuvuzelas blasting throughout the whole thing
Andy crush saga is what I call my series of inside xbox fanfics
Mmm... food
This is less "7 Ways Developers Tried to Stop People from Playing Their Game" and more "6 Anti-piracy Measures in Games + 1 Anti-child measure"
Honestly what I was initially expecting from the title was those whole "Hey, you should take a break" things that games nowadays do
And by "games nowadays" I mean only Nintendo games
And mobile games, but those only say it cause they want your cash
that stupid brain training game on nintendo ds comes to mind... so many puzzles and games etc but could only unlock them one per day... but you could get around by changing date and time on the device.. was so stupid.
I recall hearing that if you played a pirate copy of Starflight for the PC, a space cop would pull you over.
Yes, that's a brilliant way to prevent piracy. No one's ever lost their booklet before. Hey there's the disc for my original The Sims game that my parents bought when I was 14 ... Where's the booklet?
Side note: when I was growing up, my parents copied all our games and music onto new floppy discs and cassette tapes (later CDs). Why? Because they wanted to be sure my brother and I wouldn't break, wear out, or scratch the original. They wouldn't even have known where to get a pirated version if they tried and probably still couldn't find one.
Didn't you guys already do this video?
core unit I thought that too? It was like 7 anti piracy or something??
I'm pretty sure I've seen it too, but I can't seem to find it...
Edit: Scratch that. I was referring to one of Rooster Teeth's top fives. Thought Outsidexbox had made it, for some reason.
+Superstino (Stino, Dasher) maybe you're confusing it with the whatculture video about anti piracy,like i said maybe
The richest, Whatculture, Top 10's and fuck knows how many other top I have on my sub list, I see duplicates atleast 1-2 times a week, you'll learn to stop asking that question soon and to just take them as they come
No they didn't but they basically copied alltime gaming video
How can you forget about Serious Sam 3, and the immortal first enemy if you pirated the game!
I think they covered it in their videos about anti piracy methods
Wes Rasmusson You could still play the game, it wad just harder.
I recall having had at least one game where you needed to put a piece of red plastic over the codes pages in order to read it. The commonly available black and white photocopiers at the time could not produce a useful image of the code page. without the filter, they would give you a light grey square. and with the filter, it would be a dark grey square.
And back in the floppy era, some manufacturers used custom disk formats, which would would break the game if you tried to copy it onto a normallly foratted disc.
That was also a common thing for hint books back in the day. You'd have the red filter so you could reveal only the particular hint you needed in order to progress through the game.
They had those things on the file cards that came with Transformers toys back in the '80s!
Ironically if you had a pirated zack game you didn’t have to use the code to when you wanted to fly.
My question is: how did you guys find out about these counter measures?
some dumb kid outed himself as a pirate and posted it on yt ranting how the game sucks, when he actually got played.
These are (mostly) very old examples. YT? Not likely for a game that came out in the early 1990s....
XD
How about just Dark Souls not making a good PC port? It took me ages to figure out which button brought out that top-right corner menu.
You know there is a thing as useing a controller on pc right dude?
Anyone who even thinks about playing any Soulsborne game without a controller is a heathen and should burn.
Unless it were for some kind of masochistic challenge run- which i think we can all agree would be hilarious.
Yes, struggle with the jumping and walking on the small platforms. We should get someone to do this!
Mega Gaming Played all three parts with keyboard and mouse, fight me.
all three games on kb+mouse as well. actually prefer it that way, bite me
0:16 checked the video resolution thinking it was on the lowest quality
The other way the sims series has tried to stop people playing their games is to release awful, tacky and badly thought out cash grabs, bowling stuff anyone?
Sims 3 online store was way worse.
CountessJJ that's dlc though, the main games were much bette than what ts4 offers
Now there's LAUNDRY DAY STUFF... if I wanted to do laundry I'd do my own, not pay to do fake laundry!
I actually liked bowling stuff. Fitness stuff was dumb because it added absolutely nothing new. Literally every single thing in that pack was already there except the rock wall, which nobody gives a crap about
@Siobhan Johnson The funny thing was, "Laundry Day Stuff" was the theme the community voted for, for some reason (immersion, I guess?).
4:40
*"...has never sung a shong"* 😂
Thank you
Really cute moment
I remember my brothers and I memorizing the answers to the questions to get into Leisure Suit Larry as kids. Sometimes it took several tries, but getting in was an accomplishment. We were too young to understand much of the content, but the parents were generally okay with it.
then u had RLY bad parents cuz anyone younger than 15 shouldnt even be HEARING about that kind of content, nvm actually SEE IT.
Given the graphic quality of the day, you really had to _know_ what it was to understand it anyway.
It is not like today when any kid can google some random letter combination, press "images" and find HD quality pornographical videos about it.
+57thorns its more a matter of principle than anything.
To be perfectly honest the Larry games other having adult themes it only had very little nudity.
Wait. If developers know which players have pirated the game, then why don't they just make the games literally unplayable. Like literally you start the game and nothing happens just a black screen with no noise? This has really confused me!
Max Chatterji because they either wanna fuck with the person or get them to out themselves
Max Chatterji It's not that they know it's that the game has code that makes it unplayable unless someone buys it.
My guess is that the groups that pirate these games don't necessarily test the game rigorously before releasing the cracked version. Something that stops the game from working outright would be noticed, whereas an introduced bug might not be. This would then be far more inconvenient for the players of the pirated copies.
gardenofgreg Also, I think that letting people experiment the game a bit increases the chances of them buying it.
Max Chatterji well, pirating is illegal, so, one way to catch a criminal is to trick him into committing that crime, and I doubt you can "accidentally" pirate games. they would rat themselves out by complaining about that specific bug. besides solving a problem is better than pushing it off for later
Would you say Mirror's Edge had a Crisis of Faith?
billy Siravo jr
You mean "Barb damnit Yang?"
You'd think some jokes would write themselves...
im alegric to puns and bad jokes plz stahp
I'm dogen it
If you wanted a company that was notorious for it's anti-piracy policies, Konami was well known for doing that in the 90's with many of their NES games. For example, If you bootlegged Bucky O'Hare, then the difficulty would be permanently stuck on Hard Mode where a single hit could kill you (alternatively, this can also be enabled if you put in HARD! as the password). or TMNT 3 where the boss fight with normal Shredder would be pointless since Shredder was invincible if the game was pirated.
Apparently, if you pirated Witcher 2, the hot scene where Triss magically disrobes and you get to see her glorious, erm "enchantments" turns into an old hag instead.
I think that is the witcher 3
One time in sims I drowned one of them and made everyone go to their funeral in swimming clothes
Lysander wow, so original
Yeah. Thanks
Australia had a Prime Minister go missing while swimming at the beach, then named a public swimming pool after him
Oh, I know of a few ways what developers prevented you from playing the game without being battered and/or inconvenienced.
Example would be how you would be hunted by an invincible monster in Serious Sam 3. Certainly gave a survival-horror experience, but still fairly inconvenient.
You forgot stanly parable seriously room!! Not technically pirating but still pretty funny
Supervideogamer9 They let you play the game, they just have a stern talk with you whenever you start the game.
No, no, the Serious Room ending occurs when you type cheats into the console. The narrator then puts you in a sealed room and tells you to think about what you've done. Forever.
What about Skullgirls, Pirates would get a message that said "What is the square root of a fish? Now I'm sad." Talk about Gill-t tripping
EmeraldHillBilly618 Tell them to perform the fish slapping dance and that 2 plus 2 does not equal fish.
The sims does pixelate the "nudity", but if you have a mod to remove the pixelation, you will find that the sims are as smooth as a Ken doll. (Unless you mod that too!)
When I first saw the Sims pixelation, I thought TH-cam was downgraded.
Game Dev Tycoon, the reaction to it was hilarious. Some were adamant that it was viral marketing. Truly some people just don't have a sense of humor.
So Basically... Most Of These Are Just "Games That Stopped Pirates In Clever Ways"
FRA MAN DUDE Not really
The quiz one
Pirates got around in less than a few hours. Its more like "stupid things devs wasted time on fruitlessly that also affected non-pirated versions so people who actually did buy the game are the ones that got fucked over."
Rebel Lucy The Sims one
Rebel Lucy Plus the mirrors edge one, fuck pirates.
+outsidexbox
My personal favorite was Star Tropics, and the letter you had to dip in water.
or
The one where on the back of the instruction booklet it showed a pair of jeans which had 100+ paint splotches on it. You would have to identify the color of a particular paint splotch. That is something black and with copy machines couldn't do. It would also be impossible to color it in your self as the darker colors would show up black and you couldn't color over them.
I was hoping I'd find a comment on here that mentioned Star Tropics!
Also known as "7 anti-piracy measures in some games."
1:40 "Artist's Impression" like we're gonna believe that. we know that you've pirated that game
Well, personally, from games that tried to stop you from playing them in really weird way, I have two Metal Gear games in my mind - original Metal Gear from MSX, and Metal Gear Solid 1. On the Metal Gear, when you were about to find out who's the commander of the Outer Heaven Fortress, Big Boss called you and said that mission is aborted and you have to turn your console off, so you wouldn't find out that he's the commander (although MGSV implied that Venom Snake was commander of Outer Heaven, while the real Big Boss was in Zanzibar by the time of it, still, I believe that it wasn't planned by Kojima back in the MSX times). Sure, it haven't stopped you from playing, and it wasn't about the piracy, but it tried. However, Metal Gear Solid from 1998 tried to stop the pirates - by implying that Meryl's Codec number that was required to progres in the storyline was on the back of the disc case with game. Internet wasn't that common thing back in the 90's, so people had problems with it. You could still shoot in the dark and you would've finally guessed or simply borrow a disc case from friend that own his copy or something, but game still tried.
Passtheremote - Lol Mantis took me forever anyways. Eventually after losing a ton of times, I got the codec message telling me to change controller ports.
Blicz B - I don't ever remember this out of the 5 times that I have beat the game. Did it say it on pirated copies or something? Out of all of the times that I played it, I never had to look at the case for reference while I played it.
O.J. Simpson is
D) no one to fool with
EPM 101 GAY
Have anti-piracy measures ever hurt people who legally bought the games? I imagine either through used copies or bugs. And I'm asking on like a major scale not just no user manual to let you know the way to solve puzzles like in King's Quest 6.
DragonAceSg7 assasin creed forced internet connection it was so bad that even ubisoft removed it
Professor Layton and the Diabolical Box (Professor Layton and Pandora’s Box if you’re in the UK) has a mandatory puzzle where the only way to solve it is to take out the paper train ticket attached to the manual and look at the information on it to find something not written on the in game one. Of course, being a DS game, it was possible to legally buy it from the eShop before it shut down and get a digital copy, so you would be unable to progress through the game if you did.
When I played Mirror's Edge and I couldn't jump anymore, I was honestly looking around the internet on how to fix this bug. When I didn't find anything, I eventually stopped playing it. Had no idea that it was an anti-piracy trick.
The problem with these schemes is how often their execution results in them triggering for legitimate user. The Batman one in particular *plagued* legit users. What's worse, these users - legitimate customers who *bought* the game, would go looking for support, only to be insulted and accused of stealing.
In a few cases, the DRM scheme would trigger for legit users, but *NOT* for pirated users, because the pirates found it and quickly patched it out, meaning that *the only people who actually COULD play the game were the people who pirated it.*
4:41 "never shung a shong"
Club Penguin did it by ending the game itself
"Meme Tetris" is good, but "Meme Tetris 2: For The LuLz Edition" Is where it's really at
I remember my friend complained about Mirror's Edge when they first got it. They couldn't get past the tutorial. "She won't jump, this game is so broken!" It was priceless. They never did admit it was pirated.
The comBat (sorry) in Batman: AA was completely simple, yet fun in how you can just keep going with satisfying finishers, then when AC, AO, and AK came out, they did absolutely everything they could to stop you doing that, having to do fucking impossible button combinations all at once with about 100 enemies all with half of them being brutes and guys with Stun batons.
thesupersonicstig They started to add in way too many different enemy types that it made it a bit too hard at times and not as enjoyable or as badass as the original game.
It's understandable though.
you could just chamge the title to
game devs who where creative in there fight against piracy instead of making it always online with broken severs
Missed opportunity in saying “Faith has lost her faith in her abilities” pitiful...
Meme Tetris... you may have struck gold on that one
I like how Zack McKracken has a silly smile on his face after being locked in pirate jail.
Clint Eastwood also sang at the end of Grand Torrino
Oh god that was horrible!
that was horrible
Also sang in Paint your wagon. A excellent and funny movie. I rather enjoyed his song
4:08 c'mon Andy, history is supposed to be your thing!
Jane has secured her already special place in my heart with her shirt
voice volume: very low
"music" volume: very high
Two examples i can think of are in Earthbound and Gyakuten Kenji 2.
In Earthbound, if you try to play a pirated copy, there ends up being an overabundance of enemies making battles ridiculously hard, and if you make it all the way to the end of the game, Pokey will "turn off the Devil's Machine" as he usually does, only for the game to crash and delete all your save data. Guess pirates really can't grasp the true form of Giygas' attack.
In Gyakuten Kenji 2, also known as Ace Attorney Investigations: Miles Edgeworth 2: Prosecutor's Path in the fanhack version (ironic for this discussion...) the game wen out of it's way to discourage pirates of the original Japanese version by replacing all text in the game with the language of Borginian, from the fictional country of Borginia that gets referred to in both AA4 and AAI, and replaces all the evidence pictures with Xs. Better go study up on your Borginian if you're part of the smuggling ring.
Actually, the piracy feature in Game Dev Tycoon is either not really an anti-piracy action, or it's really badly implemented, since it triggers in the legal Steam release occasionally as well.
In animal crossing there is a creepy Easter egg where a manhole opens and if you go in it trys to scare you out of playing it for some reason
Mr resetti?
You guys should do a video on games that don't let you cheat. Undertale has a hilarious "cheater ending" for people who mess with game files, and it can't be the only game to be mean/funny to players who try to cheat.
Serious Sam and the Invincible Scorpion?
The first mgs has a pirate denial system also when you have to enter the number in the codex but the number is on the back of the actual box
You can just brute force it. Takes a little time, but, whatever.
@ 6:15 Damn, Bat, you shredded af
Pony Island on PC tells you delete the game and uninstall it before the end credits for the sake of a character involved in-game.
WittyJackson you are supposed to do that, it's in the normal version
The notion of pirates complaining about a game that they stole being faulty makes me physically sick. It’s like a hijacker nicking a car and then demanding that the owner pay for the window the robber smashed in the act of nicking the car.
well thieves generally are not the sharpest tools in the shed. But you usually think computer pirates as a smarter than average brand of thief.
nah lol, i started pirating games when i was 12, as long as you have someone to show you how to do it its easy to do without getting viruses or anything, now that i make money i dont pirate anymore on principal alone, its stupid easy and any dumbass can do it
Gamesmaster045 So... You must also think 500 dollar is an acceptable price for a game and all of it’s DLC...
Misha Steele Think about it if you went and stole my Charger out of the yard wouldn't you consider it crazy to then turn around come back to my house complaining about how it cut off on you when you got too far away from my car keys. It's like just waving a flag saying I'm a thief. No I don't like how some companies over inflate their price. Adobe charges far too much for photoshop for instance but it's their product so I either 1) Come up with my own 2) Find a free or cheaper option (Paintshop Pro for Instance) 3) Pony up the cash for photoshop or 4) Do without it.
@@gamesmaster0459 Right!
Every list on this topic forgets about dark souls. They put 4 late game bosses into the tutorial of the game to halt progress.
Side note. With the lack of printed books nowadays you could bring back a few of these piracy solutions
when did dark souls ever put a late game boss in the tutorial of the game? just get good.
booce thebooce one of the games had about 400 copies stolen 3-4 weeks before launch. So the devs put them ther when they downloaded the day 1 patch. Then removed them after launch
ohhh my bad. but even then, i don't remember that happening. in dark souls 1 they invaded people who got the game ahead of launch with lvl 99 phantoms, and in dark souls 2 you got screamers. but that's all i can find
edit: screamer is fake
Lack of printed books?
Maybe in your house...but they are still extremely common
My favorite story about how a game stops pirates from pirating it is Stardew Valley. How does a one-man indie farming simulator go about stopping people from playing it illegally, you ask? Well...
...the base game was simply so charming that people who illegally downloaded it would feel guilty and, of their own free will, go buy the game legitimately. That, and other Stardew Valley players would begin buying copies for people who couldn't afford it and would otherwise have pirated it.
It's my favorite story for a reason.
1:57 = ABSOLUTELY GENIUS!!!
Sherlock must remember redbeard
People are stupid if they pirate a game and think official forums will help with the problems they have
What about Serious Sam 3, and the invincible red scorpion?
im pretty sure it was pink
Fernando Miranda I thought it was pink
Serious Sam 3 had an anti-piracy measure where some super-powerful enemy spawned in that you had no chance of defeating. Iirc Croteam even updated it several times, doing so whenever pirate groups managed to remove it, so the pirates either had to stick with older versions of the game or go through the trouble of hacking the binaries all over again.
Thanks for mention Bats training.
In almost every video, where his Equipment is mentioned, people seem to forget about that completely...