why do these companies make it so ezy for u to pirate maybe they should make it harder for people to put these games on computers and servers
coltss
Believe me, if you could figure out a way stop pirating, you'd be a very rich man. Beyond rich. You'd be legendary.
I remember reading in a GameDeveloper magazine about pirating techiniques to prevent people from copying Spiro the Dragon. The technology and hoops the guy in charge of the project was intersting and amazing. For example, he had numerious 'pit falls' to fool the copyiers of copying it. One I remember was that the game would run if the hacker copied it a certain way. However, the game would leave out all gems (or whatever he had to collect). The purpose was that the hacker would think he copied it and move on, delaying people actually realizing the copied game wasn't quite right.
Anyway, the other techniques were out of my league a bit. I still have that issue I think. I should dig it up.
Also, spiro eventually did get cracked, and according to the publisher, sales did drop once a few final hacked versions were widespread.
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