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#1 2009-09-14 5:50 pm
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Pirate foiled by bug
Pirate posts help request for "glitch" in official Eidos forums ahead of game's launch
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Eidos, the publisher behind the PC version of Batman: Arkham Asylum, has introduced a deliberate glitch into the game to catch and foil pirates who try and crack the game to play without paying. One person who pirated the game, and was brazen enough to post a help request on the official Eidos forums, ahead of the game's actual launch mind you, has brought the glitch to the surface.
A poster going by the handle Cheshirec_the_cat posted in a thread requesting help with a problem in the game. The poster wrote, "I've got a problem when it's time to use Batman's glide in the game. When I hold, like it's said to jump from one platform to another, Batman tries to open his wings again and again instead of gliding. So he fels down in a poisoning gas. If somebody could tel me, what should I do there."
An Eidos admin going by Keir responded to the thread before it was closed writing, "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. It's not a bug in the game's code, it's a bug in your moral code."
This could become a trend. 'Pre-bugged' games?
http://www.dailytech.com/Pirates+Foiled … e16224.htm
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#2 2009-09-14 6:44 pm
Re: Pirate foiled by bug
Pw0ned!
But, seriously, don't pirate and all that. Hey! help me with the game you haven't released yet! What an idiot.
Or, Eidos is trying to save face. The game got pirated and it was buggy. That makes them look bad, so they come up with this story of "we did it on purpose", making would be pirates paranoid.
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#3 2009-09-14 7:17 pm
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Re: Pirate foiled by bug
So it seems like they've created a new copy protection with a built-in fault tolerance. So that the app will appear to "work" even if the crack isn't 100% successful. That would be very interesting... Or it is as uki says, and it's just Eidos trying to save face.
Either way, it's not smart to ask for help on the official forum in broken english.
So he fels down in a poisoning gas.
priceless.
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#4 2009-09-14 11:34 pm
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Remember: if it's documented, it's not a bug. 
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#5 2009-09-15 1:35 am
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Re: Pirate foiled by bug
...it's a feature!
My current guess is that activation involves a few packets coming back that patch the bug. Sharp.
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#7 2009-09-15 7:36 am
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Re: Pirate foiled by bug
Mr. T wrote:
So it seems like they've created a new copy protection with a built-in fault tolerance. So that the app will appear to "work" even if the crack isn't 100% successful. That would be very interesting... Or it is as uki says, and it's just Eidos trying to save face.
Either way, it's not smart to ask for help on the official forum in broken english.So he fels down in a poisoning gas.
priceless.
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"So he fels down in a poisoning gas."
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#8 2009-09-15 2:34 pm
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Re: Pirate foiled by bug
Hell, that happens inadvertently all the time. Most cracked games can't be patched, most cracked games are of initial releases (CD/DVD images), and nearly all of them have some bugs.
Being a game pirate is really underwhelming.
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#9 2009-09-17 5:26 am
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Re: Pirate foiled by bug
dv wrote:
Hell, that happens inadvertently all the time. Most cracked games can't be patched, most cracked games are of initial releases (CD/DVD images), and nearly all of them have some bugs.
Being a game pirate is really underwhelming.
You know and I know, but Congrefs doesn't so don't tell 'em and get in the way of the industry/lobbyist claims about their billions and billions in losses from...
...OK, tell 'em.
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