Rather than relying on the long arm of the law to deal with this problem, however, many developers decided to take matters into their own hands. These are just some of the more creative solutions that they came up with.
The team over at HAL Laboratory went to great lengths in order to prevent players from pirating Earthbound. Some of them are fairly simple, like having the game check the region of the console or making sure that the cartridge doesn't have more memory than it's supposed to.
Those who make changes to the rom to get around these will encounter some far more devilish measures though. Hacked copies of the game will greatly increase the number of enemies that the player encounters which can make the game far more difficult and tedious to play. Even if players battle through this plethora of additional enemies, however, they still won't be able to complete the game.
Upon arriving at the game's final boss, the screen will freeze forcing them to reset. Upon doing so, they'll find that all of their save files have been completely deleted; effectively eradicating around 28 hours of hard work.
No matter how much work is put into designing anti-piracy measures, people are always going to find a way to crack them. It can sometimes take only a matter of minutes or in other instances a couple of months.
Ultimately though - much like death and taxes - it's something of an inevitability. Knowing this, Garry's Mod creator Garry Newman took a slightly different approach. Rather than trying to stop people from running pirated copies of the game, he instead programmed in a special error message that reads "Unable to shade polygon normals" and is accompanied by a unique error code which identifies the player's Steam ID. Naturally, many of those affected took to forums to inquire about the error, allowing Garry to identify their accounts and also those who'd purchased the game legitimately to laugh at these dastardly deviants' stupidity.
Much like its sequel , the Witcher 2 allows players to r omance many of the game's NPCs and even treats them to some fairly rudimentary 'sex' scenes for doing so. Those playing on pirated copies of the game are in for a bit of a shock though, with romanced NPCs replaced by a creepy old lady named Marietta Loredo. This wasn't the only measure that CDPR put in place either.
The game also includes a selection of randomly triggered cutscenes in which Geralt is killed. Sadly, however, neither the sight of Geralt getting it on with Marietta nor the threat of sporadic deaths was enough to deter the many would be pirates out there, which ultimately led to the developer tracking some of them down and requesting financial compensation.
As one might expect; the very real threat of possible legal action proved far more effective. The team over at Remedy Entertainment adopted a similar tactic when designing Alan Wake , although rather than trying to out these criminals to the community, they instead wanted to shame them in private. Whether or not it actually worked out that way is hard to say though. If the game caught any whiff of piracy, the game's protagonist would be shown wearing an eye-patch throughout the game.
It had no real bearing on how the game played nor did it prevent completion. What it did do though is constantly remind affected players exactly what they were. Dirty, stinking pirates. The same thing happens in pirated copies of the studio's title Quantum Break as well. Those wanting to succeed in Red Alert 2 have to focus on two things. In , as CNET reported, Microsoft famously banned nearly a million Xbox Live players for modifying their Xbox consoles and playing pirated games. Microsoft's Xbox Live Community Standards page states the following:.
We may permanently suspend a profile or device if we can no longer trust it due to a severe violation, or if our attempts to correct repeated negative behaviors are unsuccessful. Under permanent suspension, the owner of the suspended profile forfeits all licenses for games and other content, Gold membership time, and Microsoft account balances.
In short, pirating games is against the code of conduct and you could receive restrictions on your account, up to permanent suspension. If that happens, you'll lose access to any games you bought digitally, plus your Xbox Live Gold subscription. That's a lot of money wasted in the process of trying to save a few bucks by pirating games.
Just like illegally downloading music and movies, stealing video games via piracy is a federal crime in the United States. Punishment can range from paying back the copyright holder to spending time in jail. Of course, many people pirate software and video games, so it would be impossible for the FBI to catch them all. Chances are that you're not going to spend half a decade in jail for downloading an illegal copy of Battlefield. Despite this, you're still doing something wrong.
And since your ISP and the government track basically everything you do online anyway, it wouldn't be too hard to prove that you've committed piracy.
Many game developers don't wait for the government to stop piratesthey take action themselves. Some use digital rights management DRM systems that prevent illegal copies from working at all. But others get more creative with in-game copyright measures. If the game detects that you're using an illegitimate copy, it shows anti-piracy messages and greatly increases the amount of enemies in the game.
This made it miserable to play through, but the ultimate punishment comes at the end of the game. During the final boss, the game freezes and deletes your entire save data. More recently, developers have come up with creative ways to screw with pirates.
The first Crysis replaces your bullets with chickens so you can't defeat enemies. In Batman: Arkham Asylum, Batman's glide move plummets him to the ground so you can't get through the game's introduction. The Talos Principle locks pirates in an elevator after several hours of play. CoD: Vanguard Chris Reed 1. Hitman 3 George Yang 8.
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