Most Crazy, Creative And Insane Piracy Punishments In Video Games

This is why you should always buy original games.

Posted By | On 18th, Jan. 2015

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Developers are always looking at new ways to protect the games they make, and also make sure that they don’t lose money while pirates and hackers steal their game and much of their hard work. As gaming has evolved over the years, so has the DRM methods to try and make the pirates’ lives difficult.

Developers from the smaller to the big companies have come up with some of the most innovative and amusing methods to really deter pirates from cracking their games. From the crazy to the inventive, to the outright insane, here are some of the most creative ways developers tried to stop people from stealing their games.

And it goes without saying, Always Buy Original Games.

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Note: List is in random order 

Dirt Showdown

The developers of Dirt Showdown made sure that if the player has pirated their game, they would know about it outright. For example, the game substitutes random in-game words with “pirate”. Gamers who wanted to pirate the Showdown debated whether it was worth getting humiliated on the track by a computer player named “Yarrr Avast.”


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