10 HILARIOUS Punishments Given For Video Game Piracy
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- Video game piracy is often trolled with clever tricks implemented by the game developers. Here are some funny examples.
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0:18 Number 10
1:15 Number 9
2:35 Number 8
4:07 Number 7
5:18 Number 6
6:51 Number 5
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11:37 Number 1
10- Arkham Asylum
• Pirate THIS! Episode 4...
9- mirror’s edge
• How Mirror's Edge does...
8 Gary’s mod
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7- Cricket
Cricket Game
kotaku.com/game-piracy-pirate...
6- Sullgirls
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5- Sims 4
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4- GTA4
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3- Serious Sam 3
• Serious Sam 3 BFE - Im...
2- Crysis Warhead
• crysis warhead chicken...
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Game Dev Tycoon (via Eurogamer)
www.eurogamer.net/game-dev-ty... - Hry
Earth Bound had a particularly brutal anti-piracy measure. It would let the player progress all the way up to the final boss, and then the game would freeze, forcing the player to restart his console, at which point he would discover that all of his saves had been deleted.
That’s not even counting the brutal difficulty the game will be
So save your game on a removable media and take it out before you start the final boss.
Epic
@@brockpulling8515 jeez, thanks captain hindsight
@@brockpulling8515The game is gonna still freeze
Funny that I played some of those and never saw these 'anti pirate' things.
you got a good crack same here never got any
Because, thode stuff are already extinct
its because its a lie and most of what Jake is talking is out of his ass
Long Live Piracy ☠️
They fixed in like 5 days after the release lol
2:54 Fun fact: In 3D modeling, Normals are non rendering indicators that show which side of a polygon are outward facing (shaded) the opposite side would not render. So they are not something that should be shaded or rendered. 100% a troll by the developers, and getting pirates to screenshot their ID is brilliant.
Vertex normals can be shaded, in the sense that they are interpolated over the triangle, which is what smooth shading means. But vertex normals actually aren't how the GPU knows which side to render, that would be the winding order: whether the vertices are drawn clockwise or counter-clockwise. Which order the GPU considers to mean the front side can be configured in all graphics APIs, at least the ones i've used.
Yeah, it's not about _which_ side is outside, but _what direction_ "outside" is, which determines how much shading/light a polygon gets
No its dumb cause all it does is get the fakeid the steamemu is using as thats the way to play steamgames over official servers namingly the goldberg emu even simpler none online cracks run fakeids for steamapplications
That has to be different from normal maps.
Ok, with that cricket game, letting pirates that then legitimately buy it keep their progress is actually pretty nice and generous. Smart, too, because it gives extra encouragement to actually buy it beyond just not having to deal with all those issues from the pirated version. Gives them more reason to buy a legit copy rather than just dropping it over this. There’s also just a level of respect to it. Basically throwing the pirates a bone and saying “yeah, you pirated our game, but we’re all human, we’re not gonna treat you too harshly or demonize you too much, we get why people do this, we’ll work with ya.”
they are in practice just using the pirated version as a "sales demo" - and considering how few demos you find nowadays. thats a good move
A better way to have people buy your game would not be making broken unplayable shit,their NRL games are worse than the ones that came out in the 90s
Rain glitches? I guess you could say that's... a sticky wicket.
The save file carrying over is nothing. They literally do nothing to make that happen.
It would take more work to detect if a save came from a pirated copy.
there is nothing nice about it. It's a push towards a player to actually buy it, giving them incentive to actually do it. Otherwise a player might think "I have to start all over again if I buy it? No way I'm doing that!"
This wasn't a piracy thing but I remember in Theme Hospital when you entered a cheat the lady doing the overhead announcements would come on and say "Hospital administrator is CHEATING!" in a really shocked voice. I laughed so hard at that the first time.
hmmm
I like stuff like that. lol
The same thing happened back then in Postal 2, the player always calls you a p*ssy when you're using a cheat :D
noob
Thanks
I honestly forgot about theme hospital 🏥 I wasted too much of my youth playing that game 🎮
I think with Game Dev they also added in "Piracy Mode" for people who actually bought the game. It simulates the Piracy issue and makes the game STUPID HARD to play let alone even beat.
A funny example of "a mile in my shoes".
Interesting concept for a setting in the options menu. Not one I would EVER play for the principal alone.
I'd rather play with Mods that are okay in the community, like in Fallout 4 or NV.
The Anti-Piracy for Crisis Warhead was better in my opinion.
@@brodriguez11000 elden ring has been one of the most pirated games, and sold really well.
Your point is bullshit.
Piracy doesn't really hurt a developer, if the game it's good it's just free advertisement.
The Battle For Middle Earth games got me good. In this RTS you would build your army and get ready for battle only to suddenly have your entire army die instantly. But this only happened after like 50 minutes to really make you mad. Great anti-piracy measure.
any malicious anti-piracy measure guarantees piracy
you mean like 10-15 minutes, it always happened in the beginning of the game for me. 50 minutes so long you can easily play a full match in that duration.
yep, I refuse to buy games that are mean to pirates. I bought the second BfME though@@kingmasterlord
I heard that if you pirated RA2, eventually all your shit would blown up
I remember playing serious Sam as a kid. I bought the game, but after hearing about the invincible scorpion guy I got a cracked copy to see how long I could survive with him chasing me the whole time. It was not very long before I returned to my purchased copy lol
I know about the following thing from Ashens' talk on piracy.
In Alan Wake, you could play the entire pirated game no problem, but your character would have an eyepatch with a pirate skull on it.
Thanks for the video!
Quantum break
Hahahahah wow
my pirated version of Alan Wake doesn't have that tho... my dealer is giving me good stuff 😁
the better version of the game.
I wish I could wear a pirate hat in Alan Wake. If anything, they're only punishing the paying customers.
In good old Sacred, when you finish Chapter 1 and are about to start Chapter 2, you need to pick up a canister right at your feet to bring water to a dying man in the desert. However, in pirated versions, the canister was missing. The players, myself included went mad searching after the canister as at this point, you are already well into the game. Genius.
this was the only game that I experienced something like this
Sacred has a fantastic anti-cheat system. Messing with memory in any way would literally explode your character on-screen. If you'd try to export the character file, it'd appear as empty at first. Trying to load the character in any game later on would only explode them. At that point the character just is not playable anymore.
i think it was a bug. you had to type wasser (water in german) and that cannister would appear
Back when I was a kid and didn't have the money to buy the game I wanted, piracy was really the only option I had. My parents always thought gaming was something bad for my growth, and since I live in India, buying games at U.S. prices was just unthinkable for me. Over here, there were actual stalls where you could buy pirated games and movies. Finding a legit store to buy them was rare, and with the pirated games being 10 to 20 times cheaper, that was the only way for me back then.
Now, I don't pirate my games. It's not because I have the money now; it's more that I don't game as much, and I've got important stuff on my PC/laptops that I can't risk with some cheeky virus from pirated games. But if I want to play a game, I buy it now.
So, just wanted to say, not all pirates are douchebags or unappreciative of the devs or out to steal from them. Sometimes, it's just the circumstances.
yea, when i was younger you either had rich parents, pirated games or didn't play games
Pretty much the same, serbia does not have regional pricing so paying full US price is unthinkable, i bought few games on sale and indie games
and sometimes they just won't legally sell you the game. eg Steam is essentially too lazy to deal with age verification as thoroughly as required by german authorities, so they just flat out 404 anything related to games that are flagged as 18+ for any reason.
prices of games are honestly just insane. 50£ of my savings towards a game that i will eventually stop playing is madness.
One of my favorite anti-pirate feature was in Star Flight. Anytime you launched you had to enter a code from a wheel. IF you entered a wrong code your space ship was eventually stopped by the space patrol and blown away. It got funny if you had certain artifacts on board you become invincible and you could destroy the police but they would come over abd over until you entered the correct code. IT was a good source of materials. It was worthless since most people came up with the same way of defeating the code.
What surprises me is that there are still scores of people who run straight to an official forum to ask questions when they could search for the answer first. At least then they would avoid getting caught for questionable or illegal activity.
Gotta appreciate those poor bastards. They took the fall for us so we can Google it
can there ever be a permanent solution to piracy? Asking for a friend.
@@Virtual-Playground God bless idiots
@@indiankid8601 For the companies to protect their product or for you to pirate?
The issue for companies is that if they put more anti-piracy stuff in their game it will affect all the users at the end. Nobody wants so many things to register at just to play a game.
DRM can mess with the expirience of the normal player. But companies still try their best but some know that your product will always be cracked eventually and it usually doesn't take long.
@@ReeN1995 okay. What is denuvo? They can use that.
The invincible unstopabble fast scorpion is always on these lists and I love it for that.
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@@gameranxTV 👎
The scorpion 🦂 that the mummy returns always needed 😂 still better cgi too .
It also appears if you mod the game in any way.
there should be a way to turn that mob on in a legit copy for fun!! Just imagine the streams and seeing how long you can survive with a timer
Remember, piracy can't be stealing if paying for it isn't owning.
You never own them in the first place.
So if you don't return a rental car it's not stealing because you can't own it ?
@@fancelke Renting games went out of style. Nowadays is so much worse.
The funniest part of the Arkham Asylum one is that a pirate asked a dev if it was a bug and they responded with “It’s not a bug in the game’s code, it’s a bug in your moral code.” 😮 😂
Ive pirated alot of games when I was young but never experienced these kind of trolls.. lol
same, i remember i pirated mirror's edge back then (i bought it now), and never experienced that slowdown thingy
@@NisekoiARG You got the good crack
Because people who crack these games aren't incompetent at their hobbies.
@@NisekoiARG probably patched some people release crack fixs , then the devs cant do anything
Because they updates it lol
My brother once got a cracked version of Elder Scrolls 4: Oblivion. He got mad when you went to the oblivion planes, and these T-Rex type monsters would just slaughter him. Then when the game reloaded the checkpoint, his stats were 0, and MORE T-Rex creatures showed up. He was so mad, and it was pure comedy gold.
😂😂😂😂😂😂
When I got to the part about lemons and lemonade at 05:13, all I could think was "Don't make lemonade. Get MAD!" lmfao
Back in the days, all pirated Euro Truck 2 games had Pink trucks.
You missed the epic quote from Arkham asylum devs:
When someone asked "WTF, what is this bug I'm getting? Can't progress!" The devs went with what is imo the best answer ever to such question: "It's not bug in a game, it's bug in your moral system"
Or just bad luck to be born in poor country.
@@frankreynolds9930 exactly
@@frankreynolds9930 I’d be willing to bet that 99+% of people contacting developers were not from those countries or economic conditions. It’s far more likely they had a sense of entitlement that got them to pirate the game and then complained to developers.
They would have more favourable pricing if gamers and grey market organizations didn’t take advantage of the arbitrage. There are plenty of other points to be made, but in the end video games are a luxury and it sucks for those people in those economic conditions because people who can afford to buy ruin it for them.
in USA it takes you 6 hours minimum wage work to buy a $60 game, in 3rd world 6 days of $10 dollar a day college graduate rated work and literally no food for 6 days. imagine that.
If developers priced the game according to the country's economy and the average salary of the common man in that country, I think people will buy the game. For example let's take a 60$ game. In most developed countries like US it's not a big deal if you have a job but for me that 60$ dollar can be used for paying my rent for my home and with the balance amount I can buy food for next 10 days
PS1 Spyro was pretty aggressive against pirates. Erasing some progress periodically until deleting the save file before the final boss. Harsh af
Deserved tho. At that point you’re into the game, know you like it, there is no “just testing it before I buy to make sure I enjoy it..” excuse.
@@Priuloch The scenes fixed that, so you can play the whole game pirated. The thing about riding a high horse, is the ground is always covered in shit! BIIIIIITCH 🤣🤣🤣
@@Priuloch how do I know you didn’t do the same thing
Except that numerous people had that 'anti-piracy' measure appear on their fully genuine versions of the game, to the point where Sony had to replace a BUNCH of Spyro 1-3 discs because when they got scratched even the TEENY TINIEST little bit? The anti-piracy nonsense would trigger.
With digital versions today that is much less likely to happen... but it still can.
as harsh as deserved
I pirated numerous games. When we first got a computer, I was immediately addicted. My parents didn't like all the 'gaming stuff' so they didn't give me any money to buy games. Piracy was the only option I had really to play new singleplayer games. Those were more simple, good times.
There was also Command and Conquer Red Alert 2, in which if it detected that you were playing a pirated version of the game, it would play normally for a while before every unit and building you have blows up, making you lose.
"You don't wanna do Batman dirty like that, do ya?"
For some reason, that had me in stitches... well done 🤣
I feel like it might have made that game more enjoyable for me. That thing was hot garbage.
AC Creed Players: “Why do I have to crack the game to get a 33% framerate boost?”
Soulsborne Players playing Serious Sam: “Why do I have to crack the game to get a challenge boost?”
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Don't forget one piece odyssey being so easy it's not fun at all.
Me ten years ago: "Why do I have to crack the game to run it without the disk?"
Also me: "Why do I have to crack the game to avoid having to use GFWL?"
AC Origins denuvoless crack collab was the height of piracy, everyone is rooting for both CPY and Codex to succeed, and now it still they ask nothing but proves how scummy and sometimes downright insulting a DRM is, imagine a pirate is having better experience than the ones who paid it, long live GOG.
What's funny to me is that the game hasn't gotten the DRM removed since 2017 while unironically EA removes Denuvo after several months/years
@@AhmadWahelsa exactly. I could never bring myself to pirate. But I grew tired of playing Ubi demos/betas only to realize upon purchasing that my above average rig couldn’t muster 1080p60fps on maxed settings.
Yep, Game Dev Tycoon is my most favorite anti-piracy measure. It requires no DRM, no "always online" or any crap like that. Just make sure to distribute your own "cracked" version of the game so people cannot progress further and come online to whine about pirates stealing their in-game money. :)
They even released a modified version of that as a game mode that allowed you to play a harder version of the game where you have to keep up with copy protection in addition to the usual gameplay loop, or else lose all your profits to pirates.
I had an idea for an anti-piracy measure if anyone ever designs a theater impresario sim game: If it is pirated, limit the troupe's repertoire to _The Pirates of Penzance._
Number one makes me smile every time i see it. Every other anti-piracy measure is just to make a game unplayable and annoy the player, but this one is extremely clever (granted it could only really work with that game, but the fact that they realised that and implemented it is nothing short of brilliant).
That's very clever. Cos I won't ever heard of it. The community of gamers at the game shops sure ain't going to talk about or recommend trying this game.
That's so clever. If Batman isn't that well-known, and this is an attempt of multiplayer open world... ... I guess on our side, only 1 per 100 gamers will even explore the world/game. If it is trying for sequel or franchise, that's kinda disastrous. And we will also never know who produced that game, cos it never existed... ... See?
And after a couple of years, with better mechanics and graphics and ideas... ... it will be as if it really never existed to most.
@@HenryTan-pj2oi batman was number 10. This is a countdown video. Gamedev tycoon was number 1.
@@turbo8628 Doesn't matter. Just my thought about dealing with 'piracy' concerns.
Copyright laws seek to protect creators' interests... ... but in real, creators' interests may not be of this law.
After all, there is a reason why companies offer samples... ...
And for me, again and again, I ain't gonna go for coding class to UnSteam my original copies.
Now problem is I get the original copies I still will download the UnSteam copies, which to game makers are pirated copies, and my Batman, if so, ain't gonna glide. Hahahahaha... ...
Hahahahahahahahaha... ...
Recently I tried to install a very old game Escape From Paradise. I got the menu, the password, it is original copy, but Windows 10 somewhat insisted I use original CD... ...
I almost fainted.
Cos that was the ORIGINAL CD.
Maybe some coding incompatibility... ...
@@HenryTan-pj2oi protection scheme the cd is using might be so old it doesnt work with windows 10(as drivers it requires might not work, even worse if they do work they may damage stuff unintentionally), maybe its starforce protected or tages protected, anyway... crack away, it should work.
@@seushimarejikaze1337 I tried using Escape from Paradise on Window 10, obviously the ORIGINAL disk was not even recognized as original.
So... ... ... Really just stupid war. And people are fooled to buying games for huge money which they don't own cos glive and go, Steam needs internet and you can be banned even due to politics should President changes... ... and yeah, like Escape fo Paradise, you bought something that cannot be used!!!
Tell me, which courts supporting this bulls don't know this is basically supporting paying to 'buy' something you don't get to use or use properly?
Consumer rights are basically trashed.
Players: “Since you’re putting all these anti-piracy measures in place, you’ll make the game playable on next-gen consoles, right?”
Devs: “Haha, no 🙂❤”
that sounds more like a publisher thing
I’d pirate any EA game without a second thought
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@@ToeConsumor good, take as many pics as u want lol
Fuck EA
The Sims 4 had more creativity in catching piracy than in it's actual gameplay lol
Maybe if companies released more playable demos, there would be less piracy. Ton of people pirate the games, just because they want to try them out.
Was for me with quite a few... got cracked versions, liked them, bought them.
Or just wait for sales like most normal humans. There's so many of them in all forms there's no need to pirate.
@@brodriguez11000 unless you literally just can't afford it, when $60 games go on sale it's only discounted to like $45-50 which is still very expensive, there's a reason some people only experience games by watching others play it on CZcams/Twitch, having money for games is a luxury people take for granted.
@@brodriguez11000 except when games come out they don't go on sale right away. And some of them can be pretty expensive even with the discounted price.
A lot of people forget that not everybody lives in America and in some parts of the World, $60 can cover your entire month's expense or even your rent for one or two months. So it's absolutely unthinkable to spend that much on a mere game. Especially if you're a student.
Honestly, as a guy who has pirated games mostly to see if I am going to like them or not, I appreciate these tricks and find them hilarious. I don't know how many people will remember this, but companies have done the reverse of this as well. Westwood Studios leaked a version of Tiberian Sun that was pretty much the full game, minus all of the video content. Doing this bumped the sales up big time.
That's because Westwood was a studio that made games because they enjoyed making games. There aren't many AAA studios like that nowadays.
the no movies thing was very much a thing for all their titles atleast up untill and including RA2:YR (EA at that point) - atleast part of the reason was for the "crackers" to save on disc space. since without the movies they could reduce the amount of CDs needed. and the slow internet speed back then. so only movies was usually the ones mid mission (in the radar frame)
Blizzard actually did a similar thing with D2. allowing you to install a "lesser" version where the cutscenes had to be loaded from the CD.
Yeah but more anti-piracy measures unfortunately means WAY more piracy.
@@carlcarlson5553 So true. A lot of the code crackers out there take every advance in security as a personal challenge. And since many of the crackers are ALSO security DEVELOPERS, you can imagine how this can get crazy. There are even messages to each other buried in some of the code from what I understand.
Ahoy, never heard of those... Pirates people ye talk about... But Thanks for the sharing, so many good memories watching all that. ;)
In the Ravenfield modding scene, some modders have made their own anti-piracy scripts which end up replacing every single texture in the game to a random PNG of their choosing. JakeCoin being the most famous, I've dabbled in the script too while testing around - it's definitely silly fun. I believe you could also make it to where certain users couldn't use the mod, the one I know of was a guy who refused to pay for a commission he said he'd pay for. So the guy made it public for everybody, but the script activated for that one guy in particular.
This has happened in the Rimworld modding community too, but targeting someone like this is a great way for the mod creator to get their mod removed. One creator didn't want people using lewd mods with their characters, and messed with people who had the infamous lewd mod installed along with theirs in several ways that rendered the game unplayable. Of course this caused the mod to be removed
@@Holgast Yeah I can agree with targeting specific people can be an issue, I know Datae (A Garry's Mod addon creator) has some sort of script on Beatrun where your character has a beaver head placed on them if you're using a mod he claims is incompatible. He's done some other not-so-good stuff as well, I know he used to leak IPs of people who pirated his mod.
sounds like skyrim modders
@@HolgastIts good that it was removed. Shit like that counts as malware at that point.
@@King_CreepaLot I thought he leaks every IP that is from east europe, regardless if you are paying him or not?
With the increased prices of games, i feel like we will be seeing more of these soon lol
Not just increased prices but releasing broken, buggy and unfinished games. There's more of an incentive to do a 'try before you buy' now than there's ever been. It's just a pity that only one person is dealing with Denuvo, which is usally what the scummiest companies use.
@@Elwaves2925 Yeah, I use to just buy games straight out but "try before you buy" is a good thing. I bought Resident evil 4 on steam and on ps2, good times but the pirated version... worked better while the steam one had a white line down screen.. and at the time took a lot to fix. I recommend keeping this practice is a must buy supporting them if you like the game as I have. Indie,s I would almost never do it.
The Sims 4 costs 1000 USD approx. if you take all DLCs. Irrelevant to the original comment but I thought would be a cool fact to drop here
@@uranus256 Yep and they haven't even finished releasing packs for it. There's at least a year or more left.
Well too be fair, AAA studios are struggling to put out a game that isn't absolute dog shit and is actually finished.
So when they barely got time to finish it, I'd assume they wouldn't really have time to bother with piracy.
And the publishers or companies being their usual arogant self and having too much faith on pre-orders certainly adds up.
most pirates never experience these because we dont use horrible improper cracks
Fitgirl FTW!
@@akirasouma7561 i like dauphong files
and even if there is a patch for it. Biggest issue is the viruses you might encounter on the way.
@@akirasouma7561 kaoskrew repack was a thing way before fitgirl or dodi existed, put some respect on their name 😭
@@ReeN1995 wrong, never get a virus if you use csrin thread
You only get viruses if you purposely give yourself them for ignoring csrin
I pirated for about 12 years and don't have a problem nor virus
This video got me so hooked! I remember playing gta 4 as a child. And I remember broken cars and a shaking camera. Then I could not understand what was the matter. I'm so proud now. Yes, I pirated the game, but I managed to finish it. It was hell but the memory of it is so sweet
i'd like to see a video how they even detect pirated copies or the various ways to do that. It's an interesting technique to not totally block their fun in hopes they may buy the game.
the saves carrying over sounds pretty cool!
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I agree, if I make a game, I'll do something like that...
But also do something like the chicken gun. lol Too funny.
Seeing some of these makes me wonder if there's some "major, game breaking glitches" for games that are actually anti-piracy measures that haven't been revealed as such yet. Sometimes you hear about such things, major glitches that are ruining the games for some people but a lot of people in the comments of videos and articles about it have never experienced it. What if they are anti-piracy measures and because people obviously aren't coming forward about it, they haven't figured it out yet while the devs haven't outright admitted it yet?
There have been some rare instances where anti-piracy measures were accidentally triggered on legit copies of games, which may also be causing what you describe.
i'm a pirate and I love it when devs put something in
I had an original copy of the original Civilization installed on my dad's IBM PC in the 90s. I eventually swapped the game for another with a friend but 2-3 weeks later got the itch to play again. The anti-piracy measure was that a rival world leader would denounce you as a usurper and you would have to prove your worthiness by answering a question, with the answer of course being in the manual. I had played the game so much by this point that I had memorised them all! I did later give a deliberate wrong answer to see what would happen. I was overthrown and executed.
In The Talos Principal, I pirated it BC there was no demo, and after the first small set of Intro Puzzles, it would lock you in the elevator, and auto save on you. I remember thinking it's a bug, replaying the beginning again, just to get locked again. I googled and figured it out fast.
But, the intro puzzles and the story had me hooked, I had to buy it :)
DEMOS NEED TO MAKE A COMEBACK!
But the Talos Principle did have a demo, I remember playing it. Although now that I look for it on Steam, I can't find it. Weird.
"Play less than two hours" money back policy in steam is pretty much a free demo.
It was one of the last games I pirated and I bought it immediately after I found out why they had locked me in the elevator. Not because I necessarily needed to finish the game, but because I respected it so much.
That "slowing down" Faith in Mirror's Edge is epic. I can only imagine seeing pirates rage quitting walking the plank. 😂
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GOG: Lol it's already DRM free on my store
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Great old school (think Commodore 64, Apple II era) one was with Sid Meier and Microprose's "Silent Service", a surprisingly fun and engaging WW2 submarine simulator.
The game was on 5.25" floppy disks, and the manufacturing process encoded them with a sequence using specialized hardware which a typical Commodore or Apple user's drive could not reproduce. Thus, upon failing to detect that special checksum recipe, you could be in game in a sweet spot about to fire a bunch of torpedoes at a juicy-looking enemy convoy full of tankers, cargo ships, etc., when suddenly ALL of them would transform into Japanese "kaibokan" ships, basically destroyer escorts, that would immediately home in on your position and depth charge the hell out of you relentlessly.
Deviously effective!!
I love the playful piracy retaliation!!😂
Sid Meier's Pirates! has to be among the earliest examples of this. During your campaign you would be randomly asked to identify the flag of an incoming ship, the names of which could be found in the manual. If you got it wrong the game would turn incredibly difficult. Your crew would always be disgruntled and eager to mutiny, you would plunder fewer valuables and resources, and the wind would constantly blow strongly in the opposite direction of where you were trying to go.
reminds me of several very old Apple games that would periodically ask you "trivia" questions that could only be answered by reading the game's paper manual.
the one at the VERY end of "dark heart of Uukrul" was particularly obscure, it's part of the "untranslatable prayer":
"wur quanar wur..." that's all i remember.
The old "Police Quest" games on PC all started like that! They needed something like your "locker combo" or to put a name to a mug shot. All of which could only be found in the manual!
You can include Megatraveller 1 and Tunnels & Trolls in those examples.
Earliest that I remember was Alone In the Dark. 1994. and The Return To Zork. If you didn't have the game manual and no internet, you were shot...
That's actually a very interesting and creative reaction. Back then the standard response to a failed question was simply to close the game.
I love the ones where it makes the pirates out themselves online its just so hilarious to see them complain and then get publicly shamed for it, how embarrassing
Except lots of people DO pirate games before buying them on pc. I had a buddy who would always pirate game before buying it just to make sure it ran properly on his system, but also as an alternative to a demo so he could see if he also liked the game before committing to a purchase. Because you might've noticed, but most companies don't do demos anymore.
I was hanging on for the game dev story one. Such a good idea.
Do any of these anti-piracy features ever turn on for no reason for people who have bought the games? Feels like something that's bound to happen, I can imagine Rockstar releasing an update that just accidentally turned on one of the random anti-piracy features and then having to scramble to fix it.
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I think there was an event back then that happened involving one of the old Rainbow Six games
You literally just said it, so for context windows live for games just shutdown and it broke one of the games using it which is GTA 4
This isn't quite the same thing but the batman happened to me when I bought it officially I could only play it cracked after they got around it.
exactly what i thought, thats a big risk for all those games except the first one, since the pirated version was spread by the devs themselves so the pirated code was not on the original copies
3:40 *Chef's kiss* 🤌🏽 for that statement from Gary
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Game-Dev is probably the best 4th wall break. You literally feel what it’s like to get your content pirated
I come from a relatively low-income country, for many people here buying a game at full price would often mean spending 20+ % of your monthly salary, which simply is not going to happen. Especially if you are a kid asking your parents for it, and absolutely not if like me you are the 5th of 5 kids. So yeah, I pirated pretty much all the games I played until I was 19 or so (plus there were people selling pirated games on the street and even under the table in legit stores). Today, I make a very decent amount of money (for my country anyway), and I have bought a copy of pretty much every game I have played (and enjoyed) in the past :)
Mafia 2 had a good one where after a certain point in the game your health would be lowered to the minimum and no matter what you did it would stay like that. So if you got hit you died. Although it was fixable by using a save file that let you load in after the mission where it started to happen.
I've gotten cracked copies of games before but I've never experienced these. I think it's a great way to curb piracy
@@warbync absolute facts. I'm chatting from Nigeria and to be honest $80 will conveniently get you enough groceries that you'll use for a month plus. $80 will pay my internet bill for 3months. So I agree with you.
As a developer, you're goal isn't necessarily to hurt the pirates, but to enthral them, and entertain them into buying the game
Or at the least make fun of them so hard, that they have to buy it to get around it to not be embarrassed
nobody is embarrassed to pirate lmao
You think pirates care lmao? Anyways, your little antics will get removed pretty easily when the game is cracked.
One of the earliest I can remember was from the 1992 DOS game "Legend of Kyrandia" (a point and click adventure). At various points throughout the game, you would be prompted to enter a word from the game manual. Pirated copies often didn't have the manual, so after 3 incorrect attempts, you'd see an animation of the protagonist Brandon turning to stone. Not only did the game quit, but the whole system rebooted at that point!
"Point and Laugh at Pirates" LOL... We point and laugh at the money you spent :D
GTA 4 screwed me over, once I completed the game, it believed i pirated the game, i had the damn DVD inside so I was drunk camera all the time. It was wild.
Coming from Eastern Europe I remember laughing at the concept of anti-piracy measures until that one level in Arkham Asylum where you had to glide all the way to the batcave... that was a good one...
Has anyone in Eastern Europe ever bought a Game ?😂😂😂.
I remember in Half Life 1 my cousin replaced the little bugs like hornets on the hivehand with a scientist that would say "greetings" everytime you shoot.
He later also replaced the rpg, but the hivehand shooting scientists that would bounce on walls was hilarious.
what baffling me was, the audacity of the people who pirated the games, but still ask for support to developers. Imagine if software was like IKEA's furniture "Hey I stole your chair, and I want to complain since its not as comfy as I thought"
Just a couple of entries in, but the theme seems to be: “You don’t buy, you don’t fly.” 😂
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Just get a good torrent and you fly for free 🎉🎉
That last one was genius 😭😭😭 I love how the irony was completely lost on them lol
Extra one: dunno if it happened only to me but on euro truck 2 pirate vers your truck will randomly receive an bright pink Dye, and if you purchase another color, the game will dye it back to bright pink while you're driving it
Ahhh, I'm reminded of the first Witcher, which used a novel (at the time) method of putting key information on a secondary hidden layer of the physical disc such that it could not be read by the software used to make the .iso files. Some of the hidden layer included entire NPCs required to progress past the first town, rendering the pirated version little more than a bloated demo (which was actually fine and the standard protection at the time was SecuRom iirc, which we all hated because it behaved like a rootkit)
Stormworks was pretty cool, the game would work as normal then after around 20 minutes it would just constantly rain down fish making the game unplayable. The devs made it that way as sort of a demo or by "giving them something then taking it away" as they put it. It was definitely worth trying out because raining fish was pretty funny to see.
In the old The Settlers 3 game, if pirated, the iron smelters would produce pigs instead - completely crippling your industry and preventing you from building any kind of miliary units.
Yeah... all of us avoided wasting time on such games... ... I was kinda sad, cos I was into Sim City, Civilization... ... then when I visited the game shop, the community was talking about this and at game 'got problem'. Gamers can't buy every game original, so part of gamers' world also include pirated copies. So if you penalize the group of gamers exposed to piracy, they ain't gonna also get original ones altogether. Potential for the game simply dims.
I remember decades back, I used to visit the game shops concentrated in a building where community of gamers were shopping and exchanging 'market' gossips on games.
Nowadays, it is more online... ...
I came up, read the review, see CZcams for the gameplay, then decide to try out or not. Then if seriously good, let's go hunt for the original copy. But with Steam, and without ready internet access and need to reinstall Windows against malware at frequency... ... I have to evolve my gaming accordingly... ...
@@HenryTan-pj2oi my brain had to run on a treadmill so i could read this reply, what is up with your grammar, m8? mine ain't the best either but at least people can understand me, while yours is just.... yikes
Came here to post this. I think they eventually removed this because it could be triggered for some people who had legitimate copies, and they got extra mad. This was the early days of the internet, so releasing patches was less common.
@@countluke2334 Some of my games and videos got hit, I was indeed very angry, and yeah... ... Stupid war.
Especially I am only online mainly to watch the Ukraine Game II... ... Usually I prefer to game offline in peace.
So... they made pig iron? Yes, that's a real thing.
That's cute, not even Denuvo is invincible these days though. It makes sense because 99% of pirates haven't experienced these "anti-piracy" measures because the people who crack the game are actually good at what they do and remove them from the game.
About Mirror's Edge, I played it cracked and never "walked the plank" at the time skidrow was my preferred source of games.
Sims 4 didn't create that, operation Flashpoint did it. You could play the game at first, but it would slowly Pixelate until it was unplayable. It gave you a chance to try it like a demo
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It's worth pointing out that measure didn't work in the Sims 4. The pixelation was cracked very soon after release, so pirates weren't affected.
After more than 12 years, the Mirror’s edge bug I had back in the day has been finally explained 😂💔
Mirrors edge was released in 2016... What do you mean more than 12 years ago
@@businessgamerprb5398 The game's from 2008
@@businessgamerprb5398 That's the second mirrors edge game, Mirrors Edge Catalyst. The first one released in 2008 or 2009 if I remember correctly.
@@wishwereperera oh didn't know that... Thank you
@@businessgamerprb5398 👍
A fun fact actually, you don't need to download a pirate copy of Serious Sam 3 to get the invincible scorpion hunting you down. You can download a mod to simply enable it for legit steam copies. I think the mod might be for the Serious Sam Fusion version specifically though.
This was hilarious! TY!
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it's actually funny, how these punishments came out to the surface of the internet
The old "thank you for supporting us and our hard word by buying our game" trick always works on me, and I feel too guilty to carry on.
Them multinational billion dollar corporations really be struggling these days 😢
@@purplefishy8164 it's usually smaller studios/indie developers who suffer from piracy.
@@purplefishy8164 and most people who work at those companies are poverty stricken. What's your braindead point again?
@@AmazedBunion well you will when you end up with bland generic AAA games because no one with an imagination and a small studio can afford to make anything lol
@@AmazedBunion no one cares *for AAA companies*
I remember playing Vampire Mazquerades back in the day, and one character by the beach (iirc) would randomly mention piracy during a conversation. I dunno if that was a thing in the pirated version, I have yet to replay it.
The only one I know from my childhood is Black and White 2 with kids never growing up. I was suprised how I don’t have enough food even tho I doing everything I can to have it, while also not having adults to assign to be farmers. Then I saw a big line of kids running around and I fully understand what happen.
Hopefully the piracy detection principles / algorithm are dependable, because accidentally trolling actual customers would backfire severely.
I like the Serious Sam scorpion, the drunken mode and the chicken mod best, though i would have like for them to be a bit more mature like the scorpion making surprise appearance, inflicting a drunk debuff if stung while attracting a horde, or the weapons to fire chickens only if you need bullets the most like being down to 10% health, possibly with them harassing you afterwards on top of it.
This way those become more of a laugh, which I believe to be better than just being crude or cruel.
I've seen that happen. The buyer comments in a forum (Sims 4), gets mocked and ridiculed by the devs and players, shows 100% proof they bought the game and the devs still do nothing.
Thankfully they had the last laugh as they refunded the game, downloaded the cracked version, which had already removed the pixelation 'feature', then showed that on the forum before the devs deleted the post.
I mean... Devs could also just give us demos like back in the day when we could rent a game for a day or two as a trial run to decide if we wanted to buy it or not. I've probably pirated every game I've bought outside of a couple that I snagged right on release day just to try them and decide. Steam is great with their 2hr refund window. But a fair number of games require more than 2hrs of play before you really see the full scale the game has to offer.
Ya I really liked how Redbox used to rent games. Very helpful in deciding if I actually wanted to buy a game or not. It's a shame they don't do that anymore. I don't think it's unreasonable to want to test out a game before you buy it. Especially for people who don't have much disposable income.
"Hahaha, you're poor" what lots of these pirate trolls amount to.
My dad pirated Batman AA back in the day but didn't have any of those problems. His problem was that near the end of the story, he couldn't progress any further since there was an invisible wall..
There was also original Operation Flashpoint: Cold War Crisis (original ARMA), where the computer AI would start cheating progressively more and more. Sniping you from from a mile away whilst moving. Your helicopter controls being out of order, your gun using more ammunition than what's being fired, etc.
Hmm. Sounds like standard arma to me 😅
snipers "sniping" is just arma. flashpoint was a great game, but it required a lot of change in tactics when compared to other games that came out in that age (mostly lying on the belly in the forrest, among bushes, nervously looking left and right, god forbid meeting enemy armor xD)
The game dev anti piracy thing is ofc the best fit. That just hits home.
Well, to be honest. A huge problem has always been the lack of demos and STEAM is not making it safe enough to try a game before the refund option expires. I wish you could set a stop timer that cancles the game automatically. The other thing I hate about certain games I have purchased but had to get the pirate version of. Are the ones that always need STEAM to be online to start. The WORST part in a game...I don't have internet and have to take my PC to the city to download and update. So I can only ever buy a hard copy or play it once online. So yeah, some devs just don't think of people without internet. At least now I can afford tethering to my cell to get into games, so that's an upside. There are advantages and obvious disadvantages to pirated games, the devs certainly deserve to be paid, if you like what you see.
The audacity to pirate a game then complain that it doesnt work is mind boggling to me
Oh man, the good 'ol days. I was freaking out about Mirror's Edge
Well... my friend pirated most of those games and did not experience any of those bugs... wink wink.
He's a bad person, I know... :D
Long live Cpt. Jack!
You should meet my friend. The things he does are deplorable and I don't condone them. They both could relate.
More like Long Live Empress! Because she's the only one who's cracking Denuvo at the moment.
@@IndraD man of culture here
My 'friend' also pirated Arkham Asylum (originally) and didn't encounter any of the things mentioned. I guess those measures didn't work, or it's all an urban myth.
Long life .... GET a JOB , gaming isn't welfare.
Ok, but I had my mind blown when I heard Cricket video games are actually a thing
We all were and now you know why that dev was so mad that they pirated the game Lol
I remember years ago and Egosoft had some issues with one of their X3 games and the workaround to fix it was to use a certain crack, so they told everyone on the forums to go crack the game as that was the legit fix for the game's issues, Might have been one of the Terran Conflict expansions if I remember correctly.
The best thing about the Pirate-Coutermeasure of Game Dev Sim: Fans loved that mode for a challenge so the devs added it optionally to the base game :D
the Talos Principle had an elevator that refused to function. Pirates patched it though after they found out about it. Same as the Arkham Asylum measures, they made a fix for it. Both games I bought later. The Talos Principle also didn't have any computer dialog in the pirated version so it made it way less fun and somewhat confusing at times. Definitely worth buying for the dialog being included.
The first time I played Talos Principle was a pirated copy and I had zero issues. Now I have it on the Epic store and Steam so I guess piracy does have its perks lol.
@@xavierabii548 Yeah it helps when you're broke and still want to experience the good stuff. And I feel I we have an ethical obligation to pirate AAA games, but need to try to support independent devs when we can.
@@mitchcoppo I agree 👍🏾 💯 Independent developers definitely need the support more than multimillion dollar corporations.
I can confirm the GTA IV Drunk Cam, Been there but I ended up buying the game on a sale, was just hilarious.
Walk the plank😂
Nice 😎
"makes the pirate walk the plank"
OMFG that is amazing
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especially since oftemost it were the landlubbers and not pirates, that walked the plank instead.
The only anti piracy that worked with me, was from Metal Gear Solid 1. When the NPC says the frequency code of Merly was written on the back of the cd case. I looked for a CD case everywhere in the game until I realise:
"Oh! he meant the actual CD case of the game...
... Damn! I don't have that! 😑"
That kinda sucks tho. If your a kid who looses everything cause they had no where to store. Like myself 😅
I had an actual copy of the game, and for years, I had to use the manual to find it, because I couldn't figure out where it was ont he back of the case (I assumed it was a mistake ont he developer's part or something) I felt like a dumbass when I realized where it was... There's a screenshot on the back of the case where snake is talking to Meryl via codec, and the frequency is literally right right there between them...
For the Serious Sam 3 BFE one the scorpion isn't invincible just very high health and respawns after 30 seconds to 1 minute. Also for Game Dev Tycoon there is a Pirate Mode you can play now where you can do things like research DRM and such and get achievements for beating it
I once pirated Shadow of Mordor and somewhere in the game (the mission where you get the power to control others) I got stuck, none of the character's movement worked, much less I could pause or enter the character menu. Not to mention the constant boos that started to appear and repeat themselves in a loop.
Coincidentally, the game was on sale, so I bought it and started playing again lol
I pirated games when I was a kid but luckily didn't experience this. But now I got a job, I am happily buying the games I'd like to play.