Rocksteady Thwarts Pirates with Gimped Version of Arkham Asylum
Rocksteady Thwarts Pirates with Gimped Version of Arkham Asylum
Posted 09/15/2009 at 8:14pm
| by Nathan Grayson
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Getting your sticky fingers on a pirated copy of Batman: Arkham Asylum may not land you in its titular super-powered jailhouse, but make no mistake, thieves and ne’er do wells, there will be consequences. See, one pirate – who apparently forgot to steal himself a brain -- tried to contact developer Rocksteady with a game-related query. Problem: he posed his question roughly a week before the game’s PC launch date.
“When I…jump from one platform to another, Batman tries to open his wings again and again instead of gliding,” the user wrote, detailing Batman’s repeated plunges into Arkham’s poisonous underbelly.
“The problem you have encountered is a hook in the copy protection, to catch out people who try and download cracked versions of the game for free,” replied Rocksteady’s community manager. “It’s not a bug in the game’s code, it’s a bug in your moral code.”
We’re not saying anything. We’ll just let that sink in.
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StonedMagician99
September 17, 2009 at 8:49am
This is easily the best anti-piracy strategy I've seen so far.
kiaghi7
September 16, 2009 at 1:47pm
First let's lay the ground rules:
Nobody gets to lie, particularly when all the evidence demonstrates otherwise.
Rocksteady hasn't thwarted anyone, they've only pretended to "purposely" bug a number of game features as copy protection, the catch is that those with LEGITIMATE COPIES had identical maladies to those without.
Next, "the scene" patched the game -BEFORE- rocksteady did... Let's make sure the class read that...
THE PIRATES FIXED THE GAME BEFORE THE DEVELOPER COULD!
Absolutely there are imbeciles that post on the message boards asking for support to a game that isn't even out yet, however there are people who got copies of the game off the shelf perfectly legit because the store stocked them early, even though technically they weren't supposed to.
Now, this isn't to say that piracy is good, but at the same time I'm not going to sit here and have a developer pee on my leg and insist it's raining. MaxPC, you have my support as always, but the whole story is just as important as getting it in before the deadline, a half truth is only worth a whole lie.
I Jedi
September 16, 2009 at 10:17am
Honestly, how retarded do you have to be to call in to tech support before the game is released? Honestly...
Mr_Gone
September 16, 2009 at 8:16am
Someone else on another board said it the best.....
hes not a pirate.. hes an idiot.... you dont pirate a game, before its release date, then contact the company
Ravenhurst
September 16, 2009 at 7:43am
You don't edit the text when you quote someone else.
On a side note... it sunk in alright. Kudos to Rocksteady.
Axeion
September 15, 2009 at 10:48pm
preorded the pc version sunday. an if thats true realy like how they handled it.
"Civilized men are more discourteous than savages because they know they can be impolite without having their skulls split, as a general thing." — Robert E. Howard, The Tower of the Elephant (1933)
snapple00
September 16, 2009 at 5:09am
What?
Does anyone ever read what they type before they post here?
(Hmm, this is riddled with spelling errors and doesn't make sense. POST)
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