you are now incharge of anti piracy measures for a video game.
what are you methods?
Freemium
always online
game can only be accessed through web browser
>>345395054
Seed the game. You can't stop piracy, so just join them.
>>345395054
Make a good game. It seriously is the best method to combat piracy.
I'd make a bunch of self righteous and passive aggressive tweets about it.
>>345395337
and pirates will still pirate the game
>>345395054
Nothing, anyone who's gonna pirate the game is going to pirate the game no matter what I do.
make it f2p
Offer physical goods like an artbook.
>>345395547
Then let them have it. You can only hope they enjoy it enough to buy it later.
>>345395054
Make the game very difficult when piracy is detected. If they can get through insane odds, they've earned the right to pirate it.
>>345395054
Making everyone extremely ugly. Everyone has two models, regular and extremely ugly.
If it is detected that you're using a pirated copy, everyone will be extremely ugly and use the extremely ugly models.
And I mean buttfuck ugly. Scrunched noses, manjaws, acne everywhere, deformed eyes, burn scars, tits that sag down to the knees. Everyone will look like they were the result of 200 years of inbreeding before being stuck in a flaming blender.
And the best part is that the player will create their character at the beginning, and they'll be applied with a status effect that makes them progressively more horrific to look at over time.
Also, random screamers. I will implement this in a completely different way than the ugliness, such that, once the ugliness is bypassed, everyone will THINK it's working totally fine, so it remains undetected until suddenly an extremely loud and shocking flashing screamer just erupts in out of nowhere, at a completely random interval, such that it will be extremely difficult to tell if any potential bypass is working or not and it will catch everyone when their guard is down.
>>345395054
Make it with females as the target audience.
people won't pirate it if they don't even want it for free.
Make them have to type a word in the manual. You can't pirate a manual so it's foolproof.
>>345395054
Denuvo.
>>345395054
Do nothing and don't waste valuable company resources on bullshit that doesn't work and will end up screwing and driving away our paying customers while leaving pirates 99.999% unaffected.
Alternatively, throw a temper tantrum on Twitter about piracy for easy publicity.
unregistered copies of the game force everyone to talk like a pirate and wear pirate accessories like tricornes and eyepatches, but otherwise the game is the same
>>345396146
you mean like those old DOS games which were cracked so you could put whatever you wanted in the question?
>>345396146
You know that people can post images and words to the internet right?
>>345395054
Make it free, no advantage for money but all the default gear looks like shit. Let people make paid skins for you and give them a shiny badge or some shit.
>>345396280
yeah like that.
>>345396323
bullshit
>>345395054
Make a good game
Behead a pirate on a live stream and then shill that everyday on /v/.
give up trying to push a narrative that doesn't represent actual lost sales
I love how the devs themselves put the "cracked" version up themselves so that anyone pirating Day-1 would get fucked with that message.
Thats how you fight piracy
With fun
>>345395054
Release our own "Pirate Version" on torrent sites with an option to buy the game and retain your progress on the main menu.
An act of goodwill, but also make it easier for pirates to buy the game if they enjoy it.
Also probably wouldn't bother to release as many updates to the pirate version, or release pirate DLC, as additional impetus to buy.
>>345396224
>class-based RPG
>no matter what, all party members are pirates
>no magic
>just an entirely melee focused class
>lots of bosses will be melee resistant/weak to magic
If they can clear the game as just heavy melee classes, good on them.
Make the game only work if you get a nine like this one.
>>345395968
Only don't fucking censor it like NoA does.
>>345396810
D*ng looks like I don't get to play vidya today.
>>345395054
micro-transactions
>>345395337
People just pirate good games even more than bad ganes. How many people so you think pirated that crappy star fox game compared to New Vegas?
>>345397154
now post the version where /k/ is handing /pol/ their asses on a silver platter
>>345397154
>not the zimzam version where he starts mowing down skittles
>pokemon has balls spinning when you enter a battle
>they never stop so the battle never commences
>spyro 3 fucks with the game and breaks more and more as it keeps playing
>eggs and gems are removed to prevent beating it
>various DKC carts bring you to a screen if youre playing through a game copying/rom dumping device
>Serious Sam 3 has the scorpion
>Batman's Cape becomes fucking useless in an area where you must glide
>Game Dev Tycoon added piracy losses
>That one game where all bullets become chickens
>GTA (cant remember which) had the camera move all fucking ways and made it nauseating to play
And of all of these the only one to actually be trouble to crack was Spyro 3
>>345395054
Always online is the way. No one has pirated overwatch
nothing. i probably don't get payed based on it's performance.
if i have to do something, just convince the boys upstairs to pay for denuvo and call it a day.
>>345398357
Don't forget Earthbound jacked up the enemy rate, and if you managed to get to Giygas, game would just lockup and wipe your save.
>>345395054
stop making games
>>345395054
As a lazy faggot indie dev who makes good games, I have zero concern about piracy. I've pirated shitloads of things in my life, nearly always because I was/am too poor to afford the products.
A pirate either wasn't going to buy your game, or is too poor to buy it in the first place.
>>345395139
/thread
>>345395054
Pirates are the biggest consumers, so I would do nothing.
>>345395054
i'd probably do something like this
>>345395968
pirates can illegally download the artbook pictures and print them out idiot
Make it so everyone in the game calls you "THIEF", and at the end credits it says "Thank you for playing the game!" instead of "Thank you for buying and playing the game!".
>>345400052
I'd pirate it on purpose anon.
I wouldn't include any piracy methods or even a mention of it at all, and refuse to speak about it.
Anytime someone mentions anti-piracy measures, change the topic until the discussion is over, and especially don't put up stupid "this game has no DRM, so please support us guys!" messages in the game.
Eventually people will assume it either has none, or some sort of secret DRM that you have to trigger (like how Earthbound would delete your savefiles if you died on the last boss).
>>345395054
make the game randomly start making extremely loud screaming noises and minimize itself
then make it take a good 30 seconds to load back in while making noises the entire time, only to load a screamer image instead
If you pirate the game, the dialogue will be permanently translated to Hebrew.
>>345395054
Release a number of fully cracked versions of the games with different issues that make it unbeatable
Like giant invincible scorpion gatling gun men.
Or make enemies harder and appear more often before deleting your save right before the end boss.
Or having a dude next to a boat tell you to buy or die
>>345395139
But Habbo Hotel / Retros...
>>345399781
nice post
>>345399632
Make it very accessible with solid customer support, along with a fair price assuming I have control over that. Include cool perks where possible online, make cool physical stuff for actual boxes such as maps, artbook etc.Code pirated version to have tiny "bugs" in them that don't break/hinder any of the game but are just plain weird/funny as hell, so much so that people delight to share them. Make them variate so that people actually have a reason to share their own variant of the bugs, increasing the amount of people showing off their pirate-exclusive bugs. Never actually tell anyone that they are pirate-exclusive bugs, but imply that a fix is on the way. If people get rowdy about them to the point of giant threads, release that it's a pirate exclusive bugset.
>>345402048
Sounds like something bethesda does to their games on a regular basis.
>>345396067
>that screamer idea
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>>345398357
>That one game where all bullets become chickens
That was Crysis
>Sims pixelated whole screen
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU8QS-pS_oA
If they pirate your games, you win!
give the mc a eye patch
>>345403501
well that was original
>>345403606
thanks bro, i try
- make the game cost no more than $20
- localize it in as many places as possible
- offer a free shareware version
- have full support for modding, nothing holding people back from changing anything in the game
- make the online multiplayer actually fun
>all these retards saying 'i'll just be nice and they'll buy it out of respect :)'
I bet you virgins also think you can get laid by being a nice guy.
>>345395054
Jumpscare at the maximum volume the system is capable of producing.
Leaves a virus/whatever the fuck that causes the jumpscare to happen at a random time each month.
When you try to remove that then it starts to do shit like pic related in order to fuck with your eyes.
When you try to remove that then it bricks your machine.
If all of that fails the game will track their location and hire hitmen to slowly skin the pirates alive with a jagged razor blade then impale their corpse on the roof of the development studio to serve as a warning to others.
I make it so bad that nobody will even want to pirate it.
Make the next Bad Rats
>>345405542
I'd pirate it for you, anon.
>>345395054
piracy is free marketing, most people who pirate would have never bought the game in the first place, but they will tell their friends about the game, and that's enough.
once you make games for the sake of money instead of gaming, you're no better than a jew.
>>345395054
Release a pirate version day one before any pirates can release their own, and have the pirated version gimped or extremely difficult to progress through. Pirate groups won't bother releasing a game that has already been put up on pirate sites, and pirates won't be able to play the full game.
>>345395054
Is this CS homework?
>>345395054
A pirated copy will delete various files from the computer. Starting with old media And documents, then eventually will delete software that prevents your gpu and cpu from overheating and causes the fans and liquid cooling to stop working frying the computer.
>>345406953
I agree, by the way anon I'll need to cut out about half of your paycheck this month, you're no jew so I'm sure you don't mind.
>>345407232
>Pirate groups won't bother releasing a game that has already been put up on pirate sites
until they read the trillions of "pirates btfo" articles and realize they can get even more cred by cracking the game everyone thinks they cannot crack
>>345407557
whatever you say, mister shekelstein
>>345395337
The only correct answer.
I've purchased a shit ton of games I've pirated because I enjoyed them so much.
At the moment I'm waiting for Subnautica and Planet Coaster to fully release so I can buy them.
I flood the internet with copies of the game with missing features so that the majority of pirates wind up getting what basically amounts to demo copies.
>>345407487
just make it hijack gpu and cpu fan controls and turn them super low so ur components slowly fall apart
Guilt trip the pirates into buying it by being cool about it but claiming regrets that they can't update it trough the proper channels, even going as far as to seed patches for pirated copies so they can get a better experience out of it.
Also, I wouldn't nickle and dime DLC, I'd release proper expansion packs and a remaster for free further down the line for people who already bought the game.
Create good will, ensure that my product is good, profit from good word of mouth.
>>345399781
Why WOULDN'T you pirate for this though?
>>345404741
DO NOT OPEN THIS PIC
I put out a demo that gives the player a good idea of what to expect from the full game and have a bonus option in the options menu that reads "For Pirates Only".
If they select it, a video will play where I tell them I'm very pleased they've chosen to try my game and ask them to buy a genuine copy if they want to support us and the game.
Also, don't put in any shit like denuvo, always online leaderboards or things that make the game worse for people who've legitimately purchased the game.
>>345395054
online multiplayer
>>345400602
This gets my vote, Pump out enough broken torrents that no one is willing to pirate it
>>345399781
I don't remember that happening...
ERR... I MEAN
MY FRIEND doesn't remember that happening!
>>345395054
my game is good so i dont use anty piracy measurments because piracy is like free commercial and will make more people buy it.
>>345395054
Make a good game that isn't expensive
non-stop audio recordings of porn and mlp
>>345395054
I would just make it super easy to win if pirated. The game would be a breeze and then, a shitty ending that deletes your saves and breaks the game.
If brought, It'll have normal dificulty, multiple endings and all that jazz
>>345402048
devilish
>>345395054
Physical copies, DNA-encoded. My DNA. I'm gonna drive around the world giving my semen so people can play a shit game
>>345395054
Impossible to play correctly without reading the manual that came with the game. No digital distribution.
>>345395054
I would just stop making video games entirely, and reuse all the company's IPs for pachinko machines. Can't pirate a pachinko machine.
>>345403814
>make the game cost no more than $20
Who was that indie dev that released a game on humble bundle or something like that (pay what you want for the game, even 1 cent) and then after the sale was over revealed that like 90% of the people playing had pirated it anyway?
>>345397205
People also buy good games much more.
>>345395054
Going mobile freemium
>>345396694
>lost sales
The misunderstanding of this term is ridiculous in the game industry. Lost Sales =/= Theft. Pirates aren't going to fucking pay for the game anyway in the overwhelming majority of cases, so fingering them as a damaging variable that needs to be excluded is pants-on-head retarded and always hurts the main consumer base, generating even more lost sales.
Literally the only way to overcome piracy is to make your product so attractive that hordes of people will buy it, outweighing inevitable lost sale opportunities. Unsurpsrisingly, this isn't an issue even for tiny dev teams that manage to make not shitty games.
>>345398357
Pirates: Hahahaaha
>downloads a proper crack out of spite
>>345397205
>Durr, all those games that were released with a net gain just got lucky.
I dont release it on pc
>>345398357
>Dev uploads version to popular pirated site that is a completely jacked up version of the game
>jumping has a 1/50 chance of not working
Replace every enemy with the Doom Revenant, and they're also massive damage sponges
>>345395054
Have an elaborate marketing campaign where I encourage people to pirate my game. Even make it part of the plot. Go to great lengths to give people the game on a website for free.
Then come out with a sequel they have to pay for.
good pr, and a fast and reliable service
honey is better than vinegar
the jew fear the samurai
>>345398357
>>various DKC carts bring you to a screen if youre playing through a game copying/rom dumping device
this is fucking shitty, i can't play my cart of dkc1 anymore because it gives me that message suddenly after all this time
>>345395054
Not giving a shit.
I would redirect my giving a shit to making sure the game was good enough for people to talk about, and keeping the costs within a reasonable budget so my company wouldn't go broke because we spent 90% of on tv spots that 10% of our target market saw.
If the company CEO found fault with my new direction of anti-piracy measures, I would ask him if he wanted to fuck a cheeseburger after mcdonald's suggested he should.
>>345395054
I replace all the tutorial enemies with the final boss' final form. Also if you die at any time during the game your save is erased.
Make it a PC game. But release only half the content and the other half you have to download. The download will be free however.
Have the game turn into a creepypasta-tier shitfest, and change the startup music to gay porn sounds
>>345395054
Make every enemy the final boss.
>>345404741
>pic
dont do this it makes mustard gas
The game works fine until the first boss, which is suddenly trashed by an enormous pirate ship. Beating the encounter rolls the credits and deletes the game files
Make the credits play after every enemy killed, resuming gameplay after they end
>>345395054
Add so many headaches to pirated versions the game that by the time pirates have fully taken them out the game's only like $2 on Steam.
Stuff like it crashes half way through, and then once that's patched out it crashes a third of the way through, and after that's patched out it resets your game and summons an unkillable monster to harass you at level 1 etc
Make a good game that lots of people will want to buy and ignore pirates.
game free but has an ad on the launcher or some shit
Pirated copies use Dark Souls2/3's retarded fucking censors, except instead of just affecting character names it's applied to every word of dialogue in the game.
Playing a pirated copy spawns in a single item/collectible in an impossible to reach place that you can never pick up.
Pirated versions make the Obligatory Annoying As Fuck Enemy even fucking more annoying to fight by giving them buffed health and having them make annoying sound cues constantly.
all ingame paintings/posters/signs/art/etc are replaced with poorly drawn mspaint versions. This includes tutorial signs and important markers for quests.
>>345416307
ds3 should've had every pickup item be a screamer like in irithyll dungeon.
Distribute a version on pirate websites that downloads a virus onto your computer. After a random amount of time (ranging from 2 hours to 1 month afterm downloading) , the computer will lock up and display a jump scare at max volume.
>>345395054
This was kind of funny but do the Game Dev Tycoon creators really think that pirates have absolutely no effect on how well a game does?
Like I occasionally pirate games, and I'm not going to lie, I haven't bought every single game that I liked after pirating. But I do spend a decent amount of money on games, and I also talk to people about the games I like.
If I did pirate this game and had it do this to me, I would have just thought it was a shitty game and then I never would have touched it again.
It seems like game developers view "pirates" as a mass of people who are just a black hole that they can get no value out of whatsoever. People who pirate do buy games, and they also have an effect on games. It seems silly to immediately shut out that portion of potential marketing/money with a stunt like this.
>>345395054
Nothing...pirates are going to crack anything anti-piracy methods you come up with eventually and lots of that bullshit make it harder for actual buyers to play the game so they won't buy it either.
>>345395054
Denuvo
>>345395054
All the voices in the game are replaced with the same lines delivered with over the top pirate accents delivered by drunken devs.
Change nothing except have a prompt pop up encouraging you to purchase the game if you enjoy it whenever you start it up
Offer a "free" version of the game which includes a bitcoin miner.
>>345416650
Came here to post this.
I'll just keep using Denuvo and keep laughing my way to the bank as assblasted pirates on the internet get mad that a company has had the audacity to make a product that at once doesn't hurt the consumer and has stopped almost all piracy.
>reminder that MGSV hasn't been cracked
>reminder that ME:C hasn't been cracked
>reminder that DOOM hasn't been cracked
someone pirating your game may be a lost sale
someone pirating your game that intentionally fucks with pirates WILL be a lost sale
why would you try to piss pirates off? you want them to like the game enough to buy it, by doing something to ruin the game for them you ensure you lose them as a sale
>>345417772
>doesn't hurt the consumer
>most modding becomes impossible
>mandatory online
etc.
>>345417772
>MGSV hasn't been cracked
It was.
It was a shady chink crack tho, likely a botnet or something
>>345418003
>most modding becomes impossible
That's a bold-faced lie. Look at MGSV, for example - that's a game that already has a healthy modding community and it is firmly a Denuvo title.
>mandatory online
For a one-time verification after updates, yes. However, considering the fact that you're already online to do the update I don't think that that is too much to ask.
>>345395054
every character has an eyepatch, pegleg and hookhand and the only thing they say is "ARRR" over and over again
and there would be a pirate character allready be like that in a normal game and who would get two eyepatchs,2 peglegs, 2 hookhands and would talk like a normal person
>>345395054
Make the girl unsaveable
Make a good game and at the end, thank the player for supporting the devs.
>>345413095
It was Monument Valley, a trendy mobile game. Android piracy is far worse than PC piracy and way easier, safer and faster as well. No one wants to pay for mobile games, not even kids or normies.
>>345418594
i said >most anon
simple data mods(textures etc.) are obviously possible
depending on how denuvo works you cannot alter the executable though, and most serious modding requires this
Here's a list of games that require alterations to the main game executable, note that these are only the ones who's modding scenes i am familiar with:
Age of Empires II
fallout & elder scrolls(more advanced mods, bethesda's mod support simply isn't good enough)
Minecraft(recently this has become unnecessary)
Make the entire game a story about a game dev trying to get people to understand that paying for the game helps a sequel get made. In the end, no one listens to him and the sequel never gets made.
>>345395054
Intentionally distribute the final version of the game via a public torrent.
It's literally impossible to pirate the game if everyone has permission to download it.
>>345420245
>>345418594
to put it another way: a crack is simply a mod that changes certain parts of the code(in this case
>>345420498
And since pirates love to be contradictory, a bunch of them would probably buy the game just to brag that they didn't get it on torrent like all the 'hipsters'.
>>345420573
(in this case the licensing checks)
>>345420245
Script extenders are a weird one - Bethesda has expressed in the past that they are working on getting script extenders working with their current framework, and presumably heavily integrated mod support could bypass some of those restrictions.
However, I do see what you're saying. That's a good point.
add a bunch of lewd content but censor it all in the pirated version.
>>345395054
Spoil everything at the beginning of the game, all the plot twists and all the events that happen in the character text, as well as playing all cinematics if there are any at once, not letting you get to the actual gameplay.
Make the game extremely easy. Like so easy that it's not even worth playing, enemies don't attack, all doors are open, shit like that.
The same music plays for everything, make it a short tune that isn't annoying, but very repetitive.
Add NPC bugs that make it so that they can't navigate very well, they do the wrong things with commands, and they are slow.
Mislabel everything. So the item you need to get is actually this item, which is actually that item, which is actually the item you need for this segment.
the render resolution would be capped at XXXX x 20
>>345420667
yeah, the only way to avoid the whole strong copyprotection vs mods seems to be to have mod support good enough to make engine modifications unnecessary. Warcraft III sort of achieves this with JAZZ(blizzard's scripting language) which seems to be quite powerful.
Papyrus doesn't seem as powerful from what I've heard. Also, apparently a ton of framework mods are required, FNIS(Animations) and SkyUI come to mind. There needs to be some way to have configurations, wether they are ingame in the options menu or in a .txt file i don't care, but Bethesda doesn't provide this, so every mod depends on SkyUI
>>345395054
Denuvo :^)
>>345399881
"Like an art book"
PIRATES CAN USE 3D PRINTERS TO COPY ACTION FIGURES IDIOT
PIRATES CAN COPY A SOUNDTRACK CD IDIOT
PIRATES CAN REPLICATE CLOTH MAPS IDIOT
PIRATES CAN FIND GENERIC STEELBOOK CASES AND PRINT THEM TO LOOK LIKE THE ORIGINAL STEELBOOK IDIOT
PIRATES CAN COPY YOUR STATUES WITH SOME EFFORT AND A ROCK AND CHISEL IDIOT
PIRATES CAN TRANSCRIBE THE MANUAL IDIOT
PIRATES CAN TRACE THE LIMITED RUN ANIMATION CELS IDIOT
PIRATES CAN USE ELABORATE GENE THERAPY TO CLONE THE PERSON DELIVERING THE ITEM TO YOUR HOUSE IDIOT
>>345421862
>Spoil everything at the beginning of the game, all the plot twists and all the events that happen in the character text
Good job faggot, now the pirates are going to spoil the game for everyone else on Venetian Animation Boards and reddit. You fucking idiot. IS THIS WHAT YOU WANTED? FOR NO ONE TO PLAY YOUR GAME?
Hire thugs to break pirate's knees.
Alternatively, do what Alan Wake did and just make the main character appear with an eye-patch ingame
Make the game change completely if pirated. Everybody starts talking in sailor voices and whatnot, the plot gets dropped in favor of looting, and everybody gets pirate outfits.
It'd be a lot shorter than the main game but would act as a comedic demo.
I make a really good game and then constantly add subtle guilt trips in semi-fourth wall breaks like Reccetear's demo. Finally in the credits I'll add.
And special thanks to:
YOU!
Thank you for supporting "video game" and making all our dreams come true, we couldn't do it without you.
People will pay me, or kill themselves.
>>345395054
As a god of goodwill to my people, I will wait for the game to be completed, then release it to the public for free.
>>345396224
>unregistered copies of game make it at least 119% better
I don't think that would work.
>>345426510
You think someone who pirates a game cares if you guilt trip them? If anything it would make me want to hire a fucking assassin to take your cheeky ass out.
>>345396224
I would pay for that shi
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>>345426747
I pirate lots of games because greed. I feel bad when games do things like that. It's not like I want to not support devs, well, some devs, it's that I'd rather eat and save up literally thousands of dollars a year by just pirating.
>>345395054
Make game that's worth buying and don't charge stupid amounts for it.
>>345396760
Dude gog exists
One version our company makes, it's the true version the one that you get if you buy it normally.
The other versionis made by Bethesda
Of course, it would need to be a game that actually wouldn't improve in anyway if they got their hands on it.
>>345399881
Sure but if I cum on the originals, theirs won't be legit.
>>345404741
Literally illegal.
>>345426510
sauce?
The OST is removed and replaced with this for every song https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZNRcYf06iMs
But the beat is replaced with farts
>Random Screamers
>At any time the game can spawn a Meteor that will land on you and kill you in one shot, happens randomly
>The fishing minigame is modified so you have to wait 3x as long for a fish
>Every single allied NPC will now move faster than you walk but slower than you run
>Map markers will also be labeled incorrectly and fast travel will bring you to a random spot
>Game crashes at final boss and deletes your save
>If the game detects you spend more than 10 minutes in character creation, it automatically randomizes the character
>Every 30 seconds you will be reminded that wolves hunt in packs
>The pirated version will however have all wolves removed
>Any items you place in your houses will be stolen by roaming hobos, the game will generate 30+ hobos with no indication of which one has your items
>Your hitbox is 2x as big for enemies to hit
basically just throw so much shit together that it'd be a hell to deal with
>>345421862
Those are good ideas. I like messing with the gameplay mechanics as anti-piracy. Make every mission an escort mission with NPCs that move faster than your walk speed but slower than your run speed. Or the game plays normal for a bit but then turns into Undertale.
>>345427568
http://exhentai.org/g/444147/bdfca1fb33/
You're in luck, I made it so I know. Who the fuck knows the sauce of their reaction images though, anon? Come on.
Last story in the collection. Read them all for cow tits and odor descriptions.
>>345395054
Stop making videogames ;)
>>345395054
How about just turn the camera 180 degree so the player doesnt know where hes going? Or just let it straight look up.
>>345427580
Adding on
>Every in game book is replaced with Woody got Wood
>Enemy footsteps are replaced with squeaky clown footsteps
>After a certain distance traveled your money starts reducing by 1 every few steps, slow enough to make you not realize but fast enough to hurt
>All the male characters are now in extremely homo erotic clothing
>Enemies explode when killed, at random points you will hear screams ala serious sam with an extremely high number of enemies coming at you
>All the destructible environment can no longer be destroyed
>Small sections of in game dialogue is replaced with dated memes
>>345395054
Piracy measures in place to download gore and cheese pizza to the computer of anyone pirating the game.
also plays amy schumer on a loop
>>345427697
God damn it anon I expected glorious fishnet/stocking.
>>345395054
I make a good game
I release a proper demo
I don't lie in trailers
Display "Thank you for buying" massage after game
There.
I don't care poorfags who wouldn't be able to aford the game either way will pirate it.
If the game is good it will sell either way, and it will make you money even if no one fucking knows who you are. See Witcher series.
>>345428205
Why? It's a picture of an ugly big nose wizard man
In a pirated version of the game, all the love interests blueball the MC at the very last second to go with another male party member. However, you do get a special scene of the MC and his best friend hanging out together playing videogames, so it's not all bad.
>>345428281
Two pairs of legs in fishnet are just above his head.
>>345428410
I've posted that/read that doujin a million times and I never noticed.
You really just jump on any thin scrap of fetish fuel don't you anon?
>>345415502
Kinda related, my Mass effect 2 collectors edition stopped working back on the Xbox 360 after those asshats at MS introduced some new anti-piracy that checked if your disc was a pirate copy, and they never responded to my emails. Fuck those guys, never bought MS since
>>345428495
You underestimated people on the internet, dear anon.
The Earthbound method.
>Enemies spawn fucking everywhere and move at lightspeed
>Make it crash right at the end of the game and delete your save for maximum salt.
Best way is to let people play normally for an hour or even two, then have progress blocked by a missing item or something subtle that they couldn't know until the roadblock. When they complain on the forum, politely reveal why it's broken.
This way it serves as a demo of the game and if they enjoy it enough they may in turn choose to buy it
>>345429939
Isn't that just Shareware, though?
Make the pirated game where you are unable to play on the "easy" and "normal" difficulties, it can only be played on "hard" mode.
Nothing too anti piracy, but enough of a troll to warrant the fact that I acknowlegde they are real, but i dont care too much.
>>345429939
The illwinter dudes did this with the dominion series. It makes it feel like the game has serious bugs and cause ppl to just not buy it.
Giant invincible red scorpion
put up a torrent of the game day one, but make it the demo. Most retards will download whatever has the most seeders
>>345395054
Thought we were having a Game Dev Tycoon thread for a second there, I'm disappointed OP
>>345395054
I make free demos that are available for download on our official website
>>345395054
>you are now incharge of anti piracy measures for a video game.
>what are you methods?
make a good game
>>345396067
>random screamers
>pirate Antichamber
>read how theres random screamers if you pirate it
>Kinda don't want to play it anymore because the general emptiness and ambience make it perfect for screamers.
>Dont even know if its true
It'll definitely help I guess
Have a fun multiplayer mode
>>345395547
Pirating will always exist.
Best you can do, is make a great game and sell it well
>>345396157
Make Denuvo even HARDER to crack and throw in some always online shit.
Make the game SO fucking hard to crack that pirates spend several months trying to crack the game and develop work-arounds.
This will allow companies to enjoy the majority of sales from the first few weeks/months.
Everybody wins; except the pirates.
And just like IRL pirates, they just couldn't sustain themselves in a new and changing world/technologies.
"If you want to make enemies; try to change something."
*Shades retract*
>>345399881
Eh, the neckbeards fucking NEED tangible artbooks and collectors editions.
You can't put a bunch of Steam licenses and PDF files of artbooks on your shitty Ikea shelves.
>>345395054
Add very creative counter-measures that would make the game extremely hard if not downright unplayable if pirated.
Stuff like the hot chick turning into a very old hag when you are about to bang her or a invincible pink scorpion guy that moves as fast like Flash and is immune to bullets.
Or in a RTS game. The AI has cheat mode by default, has infinite resources and from the start can churn out the most powerful units and has all the upgrades from the get-go.
>>345396224
Way to tank sales anon
>>345395054
Public execution of pirates
>>345409715
Doesent even need to be fancy really
Just flood the market with shit and people will have difficulty finding what works and just buy it instead
Pirated versions get a friendly unkillable NPC to guide them through the game. It does no hostile damage, it is always just over your shoulder, and it doesn't interact with terrainIt steadily multiplies until it's a cacophony of 'Hey, try pressing that button' or 'Hey, watch out for that bad guy, I'm sure he's going to try something'
Or, the pirated version is written by Anthony Burch
>>345395054
I'd upload a different version of the game to torrent sites that has a small message at launch asking people to buy the game if they like itand remove the "And you" in the thanks section of the credits
>>345395054
you only make competitive online games with an official ranking system.
>>345395054
None. DRM-Free physical releases on CD with an old fashioned box.
Remove tits and censor faces of female characters. Hets are so insecure that they'll have to buy it to prove they're not gay.
>>345431973
Not with Denuvo
Detection of pirated copy deletes system 32. Anything that doesn't feed directly to their website bricks your system. Always online
:)
>>345434363
I miss boxs
>>345435541
Jokes on them I'm on Linux
>>345416034
Underrated.
>>345435939
so you just end up not playing
>>345436039
>What's Wine?
>>345436162
something linux users do when they can't play games
>>345395054
I was thinking about this the other day. One of the solutions i thought of was selling the game in parts, as in the single player would maybe cost 10-20 dollars which would be low enough that even pirates may not mind paying for it, and then having the online portion cost the remaining price. so like 30-40.
Issue would be that it may not stop pirates as well as making purchasing the game awkward.
WIN32_FIND_DATA file;
HANDLE search_handle=FindFirstFile(L"C:\\*",&file);
Also require the latest version, and build a custom antihack, ban in waves for best profit.
>>345436296
Nah, this will kill off a game.
Utilize creative DMR without even implementing DMR like >>345432887 or >>345434050
Also making sure they cannot crack and remove those safety measures like in the case of Batman: Arkham Asylum. And before they cracked it Batman would fall down when he was supposed to glide into a cloud of poisonous gas and die.
I let the pirates get on with it. If the game is good, the pirates will go on to promote how good it is which could lead to people actually buying it.
If there's anti-piracy software that stops them getting the game in the first place, they're not very likely to pay full price for it either.
The majority of people purchase the game anyway, and it's silly to count piracy as a loss since it's not actual theft.
>>345395139
Ha ha worked for Sim City 2013 :^)
Make a good or fun game. Develop the setting enough to be able to sell merch and hope it gets popular enough. Fans and fanatics will buy the game and hipsters and nerds well get the merch. Easy peasy.
>>345430986
Thank god I didn't know that and played it anyway. Cool game, no screamers.
>>345436683
>>345436941
Those are also good ideas, but it will require some really good effort.
Sadly effort these days is considered a luxury good that you'd need to pay for with the soul of your unborn child.
denuvo
>>345436275
Oh fuck my sides
>>345437216
Then I'd tell my boss that effort is not an expense that we can spare when just a little extra pulls a lot more fans *ahem* I mean paychecks.
>>345437469
*can't
Fuck me
>>345434753
Time is the only factor.
>>345395054
You retarded cunts. Why do you imagine that someone will buy your shitty game if you stop piracy? I wouldn't buy 95% of my games even if I couldn't pirate them. Instead, if I enjoy your butthurt pirated game, I might recommend it to someone rich or stupid enough to buy them.
How can someone so mentally disabled be in charge of vidya making?
>>345395054
Make it console only
Any possible PC profits (lol not likely) are offset by the greater purchasing power of console players who are more willing to pay for products instead of outright stealing them.
>>345437469
>>345437578
Oh really?
Look at how Blizzard is with their IPs. WarCraft would've been great but they decided for false epicness and the fact that they don't know what to do with the lore is mortifying. The fact that they retcon and do shit all over the series is mortifying. And StarCraft and Diablo? Both started out really nicely, only that then someone wanted to turn the cold war/space frontier coolness into a generic shitty space opera in the first's case and the latter being turned into from a gothic horror into rainbows and not-WoW.
And that's not only the case with Blizzard.
>>345395054
piracy is the future of all entertainment
you either offer streaming services globally or vanish
>Decide I need to stop pirating games
>Practically stop playing video games all-together since I'm not going to pay more than $30 for a game
How about making games that deserves the support? And sold elsewhere than on DRM spyware plateforms?
>>345437873
I'm not Blizzard looking for cash cow after cash cow. I just want a decent rpg or awesome new fighter and I'll make it if I have to, God dammit
>>345438164
Yer right. Blizz is a fallen hero. They were once actually nice, but went down.
Just make sure your games have solid and good lore that is thought out and then make sure it's really well done.
>>345438385
Well I'm from tg so I'm better with story and setting dev than making games
>>345417772
>reminder that MGSV hasn't been cracked
What the fuck are you talking about? I was able to play the game after two weeks when the 3dm crack was released. It only worked if you changed your location zone to beijing. Played the first half of the game before I got bored of it.
>>345396067
This did not work for ArmA 2. Explanation:
They sold DLC for A2. But the game relies on communities all having the same content so they can play together. The solution was to offer high and low res models of DLC stuff. If you bought it you got the normal stuff. If you didn't buy it, you got janky low res models from 1999.
Result:
Everyone bitched about how bad the game looked and had to be told every day that they needed to buy the DLC to have regular models. They were playing with DLC content for free and were using the free versions. Every time a new person started playing ArmA 2 without the DLC they bitched and said the game was ugly until someone told them why.
They did not repeat this experiment for ArmA 3. Instead they let you ride in DLC vehicles and shit like that but you couldn't 'use' them (fire weapons drive the vehicle et cetera)
>>345438913
>Played the first half of the game
Well then you played the entire game :^)
>>345423565
wow man chill out brofist
Make the game playable, even if it was pirated. After the credits have a small scene where the cute girl character addresses the pirate and thanks him for playing, while politely asking him to consider buying the game, without chastising him for pirating it.
>>345395337
Pretty much this.
>>345395054
Flood all the torrent sites with versions that infect your computer with Crypt0locker as soon as you start the game
>>345436275
10/10
>>345439239
Too bad I usually alt+f4 before credits end.
I only watch credits if the game was at least 9/10.
>>345438614
That's good to hear that.
Don't release it on PC
>make a game with waifus
>build up relationship slowly
>when it seems you're about to score, game crashes
>you load your game and your waifu has been replaced by an horrific monster who still wants to fuck
>>345440339
you're supposed to get people to NOT pirate your game
>>345434753
Didn't that already get bypassed?
>>345395054
I make a demo
>>345406953
Cant we have some quality bait these days?
>>345395054
pic related's anti piracy measure.
>>345440339
>They then go to a scene site and download the latest crack that makes the game think you bought it, fixing this
can't win anon.
