Garry's Mod Pirates Get Stung

[Fasckira]

Great idea! It wont be long before those banned in this figure out a work-around but for now its a small victory for the devs without angering the whole community - a very rare thing!

 

[JDKJ]

I, on the other hand, find it all terribly amusing, and the pained squalling of those who got busted while seeking technical support for a game they illegally downloaded is just sweet, sugary icing on the cake of hilarity.

Damn, Mr. Chalk. That's quite the artful sentence. And, coming at the very end your article as it does, quite artfully placed. Kinda like its own sugary icing on the cake. Bravo!

 

[brodie21]

guess what other devs are going to start doing?

 

[JDKJ]

"Ol' pirates, yes, they rob I . . . ." -- Bob Marley

 

[UltraXan]

AHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

Serves those suckers right! Garry, you just won the game! Holy shit, this just made my day.

 

[putowtin]

(Ban)Hammer Time!
http://raptures-delight.air-nifty.com/photos/uncategorized/mc_hammer.gif

thank you for making me laugh so hard!
OT: ha ha!

 

[subtlefuge]

I like this, but I don't.

It just seems so close to phishing that it's hard to say it's right.

Busting pirates:cool
Posing as support to gain user information: not so much

 

[mrdude2010]

pirating a $10 game? really? then going on legitimate forums to get support for it? LOL


although i have to say caring about someone pirating your $10 game this long after its been released is a little silly too

 

[ionveau]

The people: OMG WE GOT THEM! LIFE IS GOOD!!!

The pirates: That sucks "looks up new games on torrent"

 

[K_Dub]

Fantastic! Personally, I think pirates are pretty big douchebags. And it always puts a smile on my face when they get screwed over!

Great work Mr. Garry's Mod sir!

 

[RelexCryo]

I am worried about innocent gamers getting hit by this. I doubt only pirates got hit by this.

 

[Doclector]

This...is just gorram beautiful. This is the single funniest thing since the arkham asylum jumping glitch.

 

[Tsaba]

That is fantastic. Whose pathetic enough to pirate a $10 game anyway?

The same people who would pirate a 1 cent game.

http://www.escapistmagazine.com/news/view/100576-Who-Would-Pirate-the-One-Cent-Humble-Indie-Bundle

*presses button* Kill them....

 

[Anton P. Nym]

There are people defending the piracy of a $10 copy of Gary's Mod because they personally didn't find it worth the price.

Well, I didn't think it was worth $10 either*, so I didn't get it. That's the ethical way to do it. In this case piracy just says you're a cheapass.

-- Steve

* in my case, it's because I'm hopeless with modding tools. Heck, I can't even be bothered to do much in Forge in the Halo games and that comes free with the title...

 

[2012 Wont Happen]

This is DRM done well. The sort that does not effect legitimate consumers, only worsening pirates' experiences.

 

[MASTACHIEFPWN]

Not completely nice, but funnah.

Very funnah...

But who uses twitter anywayz?

 

[Lancer873]

And boom goes the dynamite. =3
Love it. Nice to see someone taking the battle to those folks.

 

[Bobbity]

Haha, this is pretty sweet. I wish more devs would work like this, instead of using enormous amounts of crappy and excessive DRM.

 

[Rewdalf]

Huge corperations are launching massive DRMs on games and ultimately ruining them for the users that actually paid for 'em...

This just proves that it's not worth all of the headaches, nor is it too hard to create a system that doesn't screw people out of their money with unfair restrictions and still keeps the game secure...