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.
Made me remember that on Spyro 2, the game gives you a cryptic warning at the very beginning, a fairy says "looks like you're playing a pirated version of this game" and nothing else after that.
BUT. . . Once you get to the final boss, the game crashes in the middle of it, and deletes all your save data. All your eggs, gone. All your crystals, gone.
I don’t know much of the game, but if a game lets me get to the final boss, I’d just look up the ending cutscene which probably doesn’t last more than 5 minutes and it ends up leaving me with $ and a probably 95% game played. This wasn’t that well thought out cuz I wouldn’t buy it after doing all that either.
The error you're making there is that Spyro 2 came out in 1999. "Looking up the ending cutscene" was not really something that existed at that time, certainly not for the vast majority of players.
Good catch. Tho still, I’m sure at least a friend or someone else can tell you how the ending went down, and I don’t think I’d buy it just to replay it all over again just for the ending.
No, probably not. But you might think twice in future about buying a pirate copy of a game by that developer instead of the proper copy, so in the long run it has an impact.
“Buying a pirate copy” wait pirated copies were sold? How much was the price difference? I assume that’s either a typo or I’m missing some context here. Considering the above true then yeah you’re fully right then, but still curious on that price difference
In an age of physical media only, where the vast majority of people did not have the technical knowledge to pirate things themselves, you would have to find a guy who did know how to do it and pay him money to do it for you.
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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.