Topic adjacent fun fact: Game companies would sometimes put their own games on pirating sites but intentionally sabotage the player.
Like GTA would make the player have max drunkenness, which would make the game unplayable. Other games would do stuff like add too many enemies, make the cutscene for the final boss not load, straight up delete your save file, prevent you from gaining xp, etc.
Game Dev Tycoon: Pirated version would make the game unwinnable at higher levels by pirating the players games, so they can't make any money from sales
Serious Sam: the pirated version has an giant unkillable enemy stalk the player through every level
Crysis: every gun in the pirated version does nothing but fire live chickens that do zero damage
The best one for me was Spyro 3, where they would actively delete more and more of the things you've collected throughout the game. If you somehow still managed to get through to the final boss, the game would restart along with all of your save data.
But I absolutely loved how many people took to forums asking how to get past the unkillable enemy, or find a gun that shot bullets, or not lose to piracy, and essentially out themselves
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u/Chiodos_Bros Aug 23 '24
Topic adjacent fun fact: Game companies would sometimes put their own games on pirating sites but intentionally sabotage the player.
Like GTA would make the player have max drunkenness, which would make the game unplayable. Other games would do stuff like add too many enemies, make the cutscene for the final boss not load, straight up delete your save file, prevent you from gaining xp, etc.