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

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

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Thanks I honestly forgot about theme hospital 🏥 I wasted too much of my youth playing that game 🎮

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.

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!"

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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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

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.

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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

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

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

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.

I feel like it might have made that game more enjoyable for me. That thing was hot garbage.

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.

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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.

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.

that sounds more like a publisher thing

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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.

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?

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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._

Has anyone in Eastern Europe ever bought a Game ?😂😂😂.

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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

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 KZfaq/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.

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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 KZfaq 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.

@@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.

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GOG: Lol it's already DRM free on my store

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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)

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Just get a good torrent and you fly for free 🎉🎉

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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.

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'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.

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.

Portal has no drm where did you possibly download portal where it has missing textures?

@@zim07 back in the day there were a few heavily compressed versions laying around the net. Depending on your skills, the coder's or if you tried to extract it on a tuesday, the files would be either damaged or have the wrong permissions.

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@@ToeConsumor good, take as many pics as u want lol Fuck EA

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...

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

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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.

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.

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especially since oftemost it were the landlubbers and not pirates, that walked the plank instead.

I have a feeling they didn't call it an "app."

We all were and now you know why that dev was so mad that they pirated the game Lol