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nier automeme

>game is harder for pirates

All the more reason to pirate.

Nier Automata.

>>15632503

>>15632939

Really?

Dragon's Dogma.

>>15632942

Really.

>>15632971

I don't think lack of access to an online feature counts as a deliberate move to make the game harder if you pirate it.

>>15632942

Final section is a really tough bullet hell segment that has an online component of other players sacrificing their progress and data to upload themselves to the net to help you out. Its much harder with a pirate copy as you don't get that. I never actually beat it.

>>15632996

It still fits OP description so it was right case to post it.

>>15632996

It literally fucking is.

>you buy game

>shit's easier

>you pirate game

>shit's (much) harder

Why wouldn't it count?

There are also other players' corpses that can give you items or aid in battle, but that pales in comparison.

>>15632971

>finish the game

>all the creators pop up

>you kill them as they try to kill you

Are they trying to tell us something?

IIRC allegedly the pirated version of the original console release of Dark Souls was full of NPC level 145 Black Phantom invaders to punish people who had gotten ahold of the game before release.

>>15632967

You can get a mod that fixes the fuckawful offline pawns that seem to have gotten generated at random from looks, to gear, to abilities, its called Pawnstars. You can also get a mod that increases RC gains by 1000% so that not pimping out your pawn for RC doesn't hurt you as much.

>>15633047

That wasn't for pirated copies but for copies that broke the street release-date. I'd like to see data on that; dark souls originally had p2p multiplay connectivity, notoriously unreliable, so its not like the invaders were hosted on some master server.

>>15633016

Yes.

Video games exist to have fun

>>15633047

As the other anon said, that was people who played it early.

I remember that Batman Arkham Asylum had a bug exclusive to pirates so you couldn't play very far.

>>15632499

Unironically Dark Souls. You have to solo every boss.

Pokemon Black and White when the Roms got leaked before the games were actually released had an anti-pirate that prevented EXP after battles.

In order to complete the game, you had to use the nearby pokemon and cannot grind

>>15644731

>what the fug is npc summons

epic

Better question: has there ever been a game that tried to mess with pirates and didn't have that measure cracked out a day after the pirates encountered it and reported it to the crackers?

>>15633014

It doesn't

>you buy the game

>internet is down

>either attempt to finish it now when it's a bullet hell or wait until you get you're connection back and it's easier

there's also the chance of the servers just shutting down.

>>15644803

There are still some arcade games with anti-piracy chips installed which even to this day suffer from inaccurate or incomplete emulation on MAME because of it, like glitched audio or graphics.

>>15645029

>serebii

The guy who runs that site used a rom on an emulator when the games released, and originally thought the anti-piracy feature was actually a normal part of the game at first. When he started reporting on the game, he claimed EXP gain was disabled during the tutorial, then it wasn't until he finished the tutorial and still wasn't gaining EXP that he found out it was an anti-piracy feature. I remember there was some backlash against him from moralfags way back then, because he pirated a game. And nowadays it's one of the few major pokemon sites that hasn't had a scandal over being run/moderated by pedophiles. I wonder how it must feel to have people bitch at you for being a pirate, then have all your competitors end up wanting to fuck children, so no one gives a fuck about you downloading a DS rom once anymore.

>>15633014

By that metric Dark Souls is harder when pirating since you can't summon people to play the whole game for you.

>>15632499

Didn't one of the GTAs have the whole town go crazy and try to kill you or something?

Most of these gimmick anti-piracy methods spring more often on legit customers than pirates, and are more of a marketing thing than anything else.

Anyway, Game Dev Tycoon released a "pirated" version of their own game on release, where the only difference was that the games players made in game would be pirated at an increasing rate, eventually making it impossible to profit from their games no matter how good they were. This was supposed to send a message. What's interesting about this technique though is that it actually worked (since they had the most popular torrent for a couple weeks after release, and it was widely distributed). Better than that though is that it made a bunch of publicity for the game, earning them more shekels for their trickery.

>>15645209

The guy who owns the site is a massive SJW cuck, but he hasn't run the site since XY leaks.

>>15645222

Of course it's harder then. You can't have other people kill the bosses for you.

>>15632971

>>15632996

>>15644900

>>15633014

Originally if you played it offline you would get a boost after dying and dying 3 times in a row would make this stage quite managable, easy even, since you would be dealing massive damage to the credit names. It wasn't until some time after the release that the game went always online because of denuvo or something so that meant you would never need the offline boost because if you were playing the game you were connected to the internet :^)

So it's kind of hard to say whether this was harder for pirates or not since the initial release was designed in a way that it was basically identical in difficulty but without the 'getting help from others' theme included, but since the later editions and PC version introduced denuvo this feature was deliberately and specifically removed, even though it would have cost more time and effort than just leaving it in, which suggests that the action was taken specifically to spite people who couldn't play online, i.e. pirates.

You can see in the video that it's post 1.06 patch, if you view plays of it before the 1.06 patch it's barely even as hard as a standard difficulty 2hu mid game stage.

>>15645280

>You can't have other people kill the bosses for you.

Literally what is Iron Tarkus.

>>15645298

bosses, not boss.

>>15645298

Also I might add that I don't really understand how the always online works but if you set the game to work offline in the piss4 or (((steam))) version which I assume still exists to some degree you would be just as cucked regardless of whether you were a pirate or not. So rather than spiting pirates specifically it's just spiting anyone that doesn't like the idea of big brother spying on them 24/7 even if they were a good enough goy to buy the game.

>>15645280

But that's a result of not playing with other players, not pirating. The list of games that allow coop to massively make the game easier is huge, OP didn't ask for a list of games with coop he asked for a list of games that intentionally make it harder for pirates.

>>15632997

That's kind of a weird thing to fap to, I can't even tell what's going on

>>15647034

fuck off if you dont summon tarkus youre a bitch nigga

>>15632499

Mirror's Edge.

>>15632499

In some pirated versions of They Are Billions, a random one of your settlements will spontaneously get infected every 10 minutes. Only a single officer zombie will spawn though so its quite possible to set up defences to prevent the infection from spreading.

>>15633047

The original rumour is that the staff were using Smough to hunt people down who got the game early. The reality was another player was cosplaying as Smough and invading people. The team thought it was cool and liked that it happened, having no involvement themselves.

>>15644803

Tried Radiant Historia on my flashcart and when the first time loop happens you get stuck in a groundhog day situation where the MC never realizes he is walking into a ambush.

>>15632499

Nier Automata for the final ending.

Lmao that is a great pic

>>15632971

>>15633014

The idea is that the game has something built into the gameplay specifically to fuck with pirates, like your melee weapon being turned into a 1 damage squeaky hammer. What you're talking about is pirates not being able to access an online feature, which is a happy coincidence rather than an intentional and funny punishment.

If it weren't for several checks the game makes that occasionally crashes it at certain points and absolutely crashes it at the final boss and then deletes your save, Earthbound's swarms of enemies could be considered that. Although it's less hard mode and more tedious and framerate destroying mode. At least you'd get lots of EXP and higher levels meaning that you might be able to instawin some battles earlier. I'd even say it could be useful for a 1/128 item run if it weren't for something near the end of the game requiring a certain enemy set to count.

>>15633491

I pirated Arkham Asylum to try it out, and wasn't sure if it was an anti-piracy feature or not, but I suspected it because I have played a pirated copy of ArmA and it turns you into a seagull permanently after you play the game for a set amount of time.

For those who don't know, there's a pile of boxes or some other barrier that you need the glide cape to get over and you either never get the glide cape even though you normally do, or the barrier is slightly higher, I can't remember which. Either way it functions as an hour-long demo or so, maybe shorter.

>>15644803

Easier said than done. You'd have to be able to locate the anti-piracy measure in the code and then remove it via hex-editing. This would involve the use of a decompiler, which produce messy as fuck code that is nearly unreadable and has varying success based on the language it was originally compiled as. Not out of the question for a cracker but it would take significant raw time and effort. Third party DRM and copy protection is easier because they aren't directly coupled to the source code.

>>15645029

That card seems extraordinarily powerful

Game Dev Tycoon was uploaded on piratebay by devs, but it was actually a crippled version which had pirates constantly stealing all your profits, unless you developed relatively expensive copy protection measures, which also became outdated rather fast. You could potentially beat the game, but it required a near perfect knowledge of in-game mechanics. Pirate mode was later added into the Steam release as well.

>>15666265

Didn't it also get cracked like 2 days later after people found out

>>15666265

That got cracked out super quickly, in addition to that the game was designed in such a way that it didn't change how you had to play at all because the only thing that determined profits was how good your game was compared to your previous games

>>15666265

Kind of cheeky for someone who just pirated Game Dev Story and copypasted Kairosoft's work.

One of the forza games, i think it was 3, made it so you could never go full speed on pirated copies (capped at 70% iirc), 360 piracy was huge over here and most pirated copies had a disclaimer stating that it was fully in spanish and had been patched.

God of war 2 also shat itself frequently if you pirated it, it also needed some sort of patch to run properly, that or people messed up when ripping the iso because it came in a dvd 9 (capacity of 7.9GB), not a normal dvd (4.7GB).

>>15645298

I know this post is 5 days old, but how can you tell that the video of the game is post 1.06 patch? And is there any way to check the version of the game to see if it is pre-1.06?

>ctrl+F duke nukem forever

>0 results

has everyone forgotten already, or am I the only guy from the pre-GG days left on /v/?

>>15663115

we have ids you dip, not the same person

>>15666778

I think the game actually has to be… you know decent for people to actually remember it

>>15632971

Did the pirate copy crash more too? I had to rerun one particular section of the game about 7 times before it finally didn't crash before a save point.

>>15665012

I pirated just cause 3, and there was a mission with a name like advanced piracy or something. You had to steal some enhanced tank with an energy shield, and every time I made it to a certain bridge on the route it would crash the game. I spotted the possible drm after a few failures. However, what little searching I did didn't seem to turn up anyone else running into the same issue on a pirated copy. The issue was far more severe than any crashing before or after, but I eventually got past that area. I'm still convinced that it was some elaborate anti piracy measure, but I could be wrong.

>>15632997

>Second webm

That's really fucking cute

>>15666831

Most people here also use a VPN with various servers, thus their ID can change quite a lot.

Nice try, though.

>>15669292

Not to mention clear cookies every 15 seconds . Annoying but necessary in a marketing parasite internet.

Bamham Asylum.

>>15669435

No, that anti-piracy measure made the game "unbeatable".

Day One pirates would get stuck on an early platforming puzzle, because Batman flapped his cape open and shut like a retard instead of gliding smoothly. Players who phoned the official helpline would describe the issue, and immediately get called out for using a rushed 'crack' of the game.

>>15669474

>Day One anything

They deserved it.

Imagine being a developer and wasting resources on that shit.

The pirated version of Starsector used to make it so that random encounters are nearly impossible, but I guess the game is still theoretically beatable. Not sure if mods would fix it (most likely). Good game otherwise though. Wish it wasn't written in fucking Java.

>>15673871

It doesn't at least since 0.54, though it still tries to spook you with in game messages.

>>15632942

Yeh it's really well done too.

>>15645243

GTA 4 gives you a drunk/shaking camera.

In Nioh it's way harder to improve your gear when you aren't getting spammed with legendary Warrior of the West sets from every single grave you step on,