Garry's Mod developer exposes pirates with fake error

[fimbles]

Charging for a mod?

Cant blame the pirates tbh.

 

[edison5do]

Guest said:
For PC games, anti pirate code should be:

if (pirate) {
string shd = detect system hard drive;
format shd;
}

Nice one There!

 

[Red87]

fimbles said:
Charging for a mod?

Cant blame the pirates tbh.

Have you ever played Garry's Mod? Its essentially a whole new game. Its quite a lot more than your standard 'mod' and there is no reason not to charge for it.

 

[Guest]

"Charging for a mod?"

Red87, yes, you are correct, how dare Garry get paid for software he wrote? I mean, hes charging a whole $5, how dare he ask pirates to pay that exorbitant fee!

Os

 

[Lurker101]

If I recall ages ago if you pirated "Red Alert 2" all your units would blow up within a few minutes or something like that... Still all great ways of tackling piracy as it only annoys the pirates.

You recall slightly wrong. Playing a pirated version of Red Alert 2 or Yuris Revenge was possible. The units blowing up thing would happen if you tried to play a mod with a pirated game, and considering the high quality of most mods for RA2/YR, this really was a sufficient punishment for pirates.

 

[isamuelson]

treetops said:
lol why would someone ask for advice about a pirated game on the steam forum

Kind of like how people will post on various legit sites on getting game keys. One word: stupidity.

 

[Lurker101]

Kind of like how people will post on various legit sites on getting game keys. One word: stupidity.

For the greater good, can we sterilize these people?

 

[Guest]

nice.. one just needs to start posting messages with legite non pirate steamids to get them banned

 

[Siavash]

Nice trick xD

 

[freythman]

Well played. Well played, indeed.

 

[yowanvista]

Pirates FTW

 

[gingerbill]

tip my hat to him . Was trying to remember some other games that caught out pirates in a unique way , struggling to remember what they were. Definetly been a few but my puny memory cant recall. Didnt black & white do something?

 

[Guest]

Very well done.

 

[anguis]

What about a pseudo-random error message being generated rather than a single line reused error message? Would be more useful.

 

[T77]

I like that......