Arkham Asylum Pirates Get a Gimpy Batman
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I want to destroy their confidence. The game was horrible! If I could, I'd demand my precious bandwidth back, as compensation for the game's utter lack of quality.KarumaK said:
It would be immoral to charge full price for that game.
Either they were lazy and wanted to produce another mediocre-at-best game (Because those sell as well as amazing games), or they completely lack any talent in the game design field.
My bet is a combination of the two: Lazy and incompetent.
Do you ever stop making awesome news reports? You are sort of raising the bar here for other people here.CantFaketheFunk said:Arkham Asylum Pirates Get a Gimpy Batman
Did you illegally download a cracked version of Arkham Asylum for the PC? Hope you enjoy playing with a Batman who has conveniently forgotten some of his moveset, rendering the game unbeatable.
Do you know what I love? Creative DRM. Any developer can throw in a mandated online check, or give you a limited number of installs, or something boring like that, but then you have developers with a cruel sense of humor who make it so that pirates have their genitals attacked by ill-tempered ferrets, and the ferrets are on fire. That's going above the call of duty right there.
Apparently, one of said developers is Rocksteady Studios, creators of critical darling Batman: Arkham Asylum. Pirates who have illegally acquired the PC version of the game will find themselves playing the game with a Batman who has apparently forgotten how to use his moves, notably the glide-jump. In an amusing little thread on the Eidos forums [http://forums.eidosgames.com/showthread.php?t=95030], one pirate came to innocently report a bug, claiming that instead of gliding when the appropriate input was given, the Dark Knight would instead just spread his wings and fall to his death in poison gas.
Quoth an Eidos admin in response:
[blockquote]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.[/blockquote]
Since its acquisition of Rocksteady parent Eidos, Square-Enix has announced plans to use similar DRM in its upcoming Final Fantasy XIII, where any attempt to use magic will always result in summoning a rampaging horde of Chocobos to crush the party, the player, and anyone they've ever loved.
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Awesome post. Although i would like to note that I hate Batman, but still, awesome post.
Exactly Irony at its best for piratesChromeAlchemist said:
Why can't more devs do this?
I do agree with this unfortunately, however it does waste your average pirates time, so all is well for now.Terramax said:
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Hilarious. Though wait, what does this mean? DRM for console titles? Because there's no PC version...right?CantFaketheFunk said:
Rockstar did this with GTA IV, if your game was detected as pirated, any car you hopped into was instantly nearly completely wrecked, could not brake, and would continuously accelerate, on top of that you also were given the drunk camera instead of the regular one.
Their work was slightly undermined that pirates almost immediately had a fix for it, but still they also did it.
Their work was slightly undermined that pirates almost immediately had a fix for it, but still they also did it.
I love this idea and the comment written by the admin so much ^__^ It just seems like poetic justice to me, perfect and hilarious justice
Then make sure you do what really helped and make excellent games.williebaz said:
Fixing this sort of issue is childsplay. But I wouldn't pirate Arkham Asylum, it is just too damn good.
Just like I didn't pirate World of Goo or Evil Genius. They have a quality to them that just draws me in and makes me feel like the worlds biggest asshole if I don't buy them (which I end up doing pretty swiftly).
A buddy of mine in the US just bought the PC game(it doesn't release in Europe until friday), and guess what? Physx, the thing they delayed the game for, the thing that was in the demo, the thing that could be enabled via ini editing in the gimped version.. it's not in the full game. It will be released as a patch tomorrow. Also editing the ini to enable it in the full original retail causes a big fat crash.
I'm all for treating people who pirate games like crap, but treating people who buy the game the same way, that's just acting like a jerk, something publishers will always do. Keep in mind, if the game won't sell didly on the PC, it will be because of this stunt, and God knows what they did with it.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have some timbers to shiver.
I'm all for treating people who pirate games like crap, but treating people who buy the game the same way, that's just acting like a jerk, something publishers will always do. Keep in mind, if the game won't sell didly on the PC, it will be because of this stunt, and God knows what they did with it.
Now if you'll excuse me, I have some timbers to shiver.
To be honest, I'd LOVE to actually see that happen xD A horde of Chocobo's...BWEH! X3ChromeAlchemist said:
Why can't more devs do this?
I do agree with this unfortunately, however it does waste your average pirates time, so all is well for now.Terramax said:
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Hilarious. Though wait, what does this mean? DRM for console titles? Because there's no PC version...right?CantFaketheFunk said:
So here's a new joke.
What do DRM and Bane have in common?
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They both cripple Batman.