One in all my favorite issues to put in writing about on this web site are the inventive methods builders have realized to fuck with folks pirating their video video games, so it’s with nice pleasure I get to share one other instance right now.
Ross Symons, the CEO of Large Ant Studios, has been speaking on Twitter right now about a number of the measures his firm have used to cope with pirates, that are much more inventive then simply denying them entry to the sport.
Talking particularly about sports activities recreation Cricket 22, the studios’ newest launch, he says Large Ant simply turned on their very own concept of piracy safety for the sport, which entails making the entire display flash white between matches. Like these type of anti-piracy measures usually do, it’s drawn plenty of oblivious pirates to the sport’s help boards, asking for assist in fixing their downside:
The white display is simply the beginning of Large Ant’s plans, although. Responding to former Kotaku AU Editor Alex Walker’s questions on Twitter, Symons says the corporate “has different issues in retailer”, a few of them favorite measures from older video games like ensuring pirates lose 100% of coin tosses, displaying controller connection error messages and, most irritating of all, ensuring they need to discipline first (whereas the AI bats), then when it’s the participant’s flip to attain some runs making it “rain eternally” till the sport is cancelled (which is one thing that occurs in cricket).
I requested Symons about these measures and the way Large Ant implement them, and he instructed me “We even have a management panel for it right here”, the place on a whim they will “choose what occurs to pirates”, with another choices being a black display as an alternative of a white one, and telling customers that the batteries of their controller want changing.
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“I determine if persons are going to steal the sport”, Symons says, “we’d as properly have some enjoyable at their expense”. He additionally says that since turning the anti-pirate measures on that gross sales of Cricket 22 “are up 300%”, thanking those that have “transformed” to a authentic copy, whereas attractive any present pirates nonetheless clinging onto their free variations with a promise that “if you buy now then you’ll mechanically get to maintain your progress.”
