DRM totally only affects pirates, guys (for about 48 hours tops).Johnson McGee said:
On the bright side, those who do jailbrake their devices probably already know how to download patches and fixes to circumvent something like this.
Deus Ex: The Fall Disables Weapons on Jailbroken Devices
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On the bright side, those who do jailbrake their devices probably already know how to download patches and fixes to circumvent something like this.
Douchey move, Sqeenix. Douchey move. Not all jail breakers are automatically going to be pirates. No doubt there's a money trail from Apple somewhere in this story.
It's a good thing they thought this through and disabled weapons for people who modified their Ios device. It's not like they have the ability to hack their modified device to remove an annoying feature they don't want. Crisis averted, ladies and gentlemen, Square has solved the problem of players hacking into their own property.
So if I customise my PC to run more effectively and to my liking, I shouldn't be allowed to play games and other media on it?Saviordd1 said:
Because that's effectively what you've said, that anyone who custom builds their PC then runs Linux/Ubuntu on it shouldn't be allowed media... regardless of if they've paid for it or not?
I'd be really pissed off if they started doing something similar for Android, my tablet is rooted, but every single game I have installed, I bought with my hard earned cash (or not if it's a F2P game).
Square-Enix is getting shadier and shadier with each passing day.
Square-Enix is getting shadier and shadier with each passing day.
You know what? i think you might just have answered a question ive been asking myself for a while; Why is FFT:War of the Lions worldwide on IoS but Japan only on Android? maybe Squeenix are afraid of teh dreaded android pirates!PoolCleaningRobot said:
THIS! Oh HELL THIS!!L34dP1LL said:
OT: yeah all that is going to do is tell people who want full access to their electronics that Square wants them to pirate their games. Because if you pay for it FUCK YOUR UNLOCKED DEVICE! If you bootleg it then it plays..........
Since I think piracy is a terrible thing I will just not play the damn game and they can sell their shit to someone else.
NOT A RECOMMENDATION FOR PIRACY IT WILL GIVE YOU THE CANCER/AIDS!!AND KILL YOUR DOG/CAT
It's rather funny, cracking teams often do things like this because it's like a race, who can get the crack out faster than anyone else. Try to find a small title with no DRM, it's hard as hell. Remember The Witcher 2? Had no drm on the GoG version, and that version barely made it to the Pirate Bay, while the DRM version did, and was cracked of course.AWAR said:
A lot of the time it's not even about getting to play games for free (For the warrez teams), but just getting the prestige. Hell, a lot of torrents lately say "Like the game? Buy it!" at the bottom.
(From what I understand, I might just be wildly miss-informed)
And here we see Square Enix succumbing to the same pressures EA and Acti-Blizzard have been feeling. Lower earnings and lost money make companies panic and push for greater control over what they sell, even after the point where they sell it to you.
How long are they going to continue to put crap restrictions into their games that accomplish NOTHING but to screw over paying customers? Granted almost no one cares about this as compared to Diablo 3 or SimCity, but that publishers think they can get away with this on any level is bullshit.
How long are they going to continue to put crap restrictions into their games that accomplish NOTHING but to screw over paying customers? Granted almost no one cares about this as compared to Diablo 3 or SimCity, but that publishers think they can get away with this on any level is bullshit.
As well as this being implemented in a game where you will likely spend large chunks of your time hacking virtual systems would be a perfectly logical game to push a DRM system that would condemn you for "hacking"L34dP1LL said:
SE: Please feel free to spend countless hours hacking tedious locks and apple-esque neutered "computers".... But so help us if you even think of doing this on a hacked apple device we are going to shove a chocobo so far up your SCSI port you will be choking on feathers till we actually release Final Fantasy XIII Versus.