Instead of adding in punishing features, Ubisoft protected Far Cry 4 by removing certain camera control options from the game that were then patched in to legitimate copies in a day one update.Ĭlever, in-game ways to actively punish pirates are an appealing alternative to restrictive, universal digital rights management policies, such as requiring a constant internet connection to play. Croteam’s solutions are reminiscent of what Kairosoft did with Game Dev Story, a game development simulator wherein illegal copies featured in-game pirates that would steal the player studio’s games until it went bankrupt. Punishing piracy in-game has become an increasingly popular solution to the age-old problem of illegally-copied digital games.
The fleet-footed, invincible nightmare relentlessly pursued the player from the opening moments of the game, making it nearly impossible to play. In 2011, Serious Sam 3: BFEfeatured an immortal pink scorpion that would only appear in pirated copies of the game. This is not the first foray into gameplay-linked piracy protection from the Croatian developer Croteam. Although the original post appears to have been taken down, it was recorded by a NeoGAF user and shared on publisher Devolver Digital’s Twitter for shaming. One such thief fell for the honeypot and outed themselves on the game’s Steam forum. The Talos Principle, a philosophically-inclined first-person puzzler from Serious Sam developer Croteam, punishes pirates that steal the game by trapping them in a particular elevator at a key point of progression.
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