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This was posted on the front page at 9:30 this morning there is already a discussion thread about it.
http://www.hardforum.com/showthread.php?t=1450959
crud.... even searched for it.
Edit: So I've pretty much failed in life for the last 30 minutes... At least it's Friday...
It's fine and I closed the other thread.
Except for the fact this has BEEN cracked.
An Edios admin going by Keir responded to the thread before it was closed writing, "The problem you have encountered is a hook in the copy protection, to catch out people who try and download cracked versions of the game for free. It's not a bug in the game's code, it's a bug in your moral code."
This is commonly done now.
Crysis Warhead punked pirates by having the guns shoot chickens instead of bullets when you got to a certain level. Mirror's Edge had the game get stuck in permanent slow-mo so it would be impossible/annoying to play.
What else am I missing?
GTA IV, permanent drunk-cam.Crysis Warhead punked pirates by having the guns shoot chickens instead of bullets when you got to a certain level. Mirror's Edge had the game get stuck in permanent slow-mo so it would be impossible/annoying to play.
What else am I missing?
wut??
Mass Effect had glitches like this as well when using a no cd crack. It was pure comedy watching the forums and seeing people complain about their cracked copy not working properly.
I'd much rather see the likes of this vs. DRM or any other means that punishes legitimate buyers.
I'd much rather see the likes of this vs. DRM or any other means that punishes legitimate buyers.
Your argument is flawed. DRMs don't deliberately punish legitimate buyers, they do it by accident. There is absolutely no reason why this DRM couldn't accidentally punish a legitimate buyer of the game with a broken glide mechanic after the game comes out. It is potentially as imperfect a system as the other DRM options.
Mass Effect had glitches like this as well when using a no cd crack. It was pure comedy watching the forums and seeing people complain about their cracked copy not working properly.
Its hard to tell if this is legit or not. Crackers who actually edit the exes usually look for this sort of thing. It's often best to remember that the crackers aren't kiddies looking to beat the establishment and let everyone have free games, they're often just doing it for the challenge and the recognition of their peers. So cracking a game well, such that there is no difference between the original and the cracked copy is important. Any pirates getting caught out by this are simply using bad cracks..
It will be interesting to see if the scene has anything to say about this, if developers are essentially trying to shame users and cover up legitimate bugs the scene will find out and expose it, just like they exposed developers who had bugs with their copy protection releasing updated exes to fix the problem that turned out to be scene cracks xD
This is commonly done now.
Crysis Warhead punked pirates by having the guns shoot chickens instead of bullets when you got to a certain level. Mirror's Edge had the game get stuck in permanent slow-mo so it would be impossible/annoying to play.
What else am I missing?
assisins creed ran like shit if you pirated it too. i know, becuase i wanted to give the game a good feel before i decided anything. i couldnt tell shit because it ran so bad, so i bought the game, it ran fantastic but the game itself turned out to be very dull on the inside. they got my money though so they win. its not like it should be fair or anything- where one party makes a good product and the other pays fairly. no, it needs to be one party making as much shit as they can and hoping enough idiots will buy it at full price so you can design next year's wave of new junk.
this whole process can definitely backfire. the titan quest devs tried a bunch of clever stuff to mess with pirates. 'clever' stuff like just making the game crash at random times to punish people. what happened was some forums became completely littered with people complaining that the game was broken. people that would have normally bought the game avoided it like the plague since it seemed like no one had success getting the game to work correctly. the devs said nothing until it was too late, the damage was already done and sales suffered.
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I find this surprising. Mass Effect doesn't require the DVD to be in the drive to be played.