Anti-Piracy Measures in Video Games - Did You Know Gaming extra Feat. Greg (Pokemon + more)

[@mdudegamer]

I remember hearing about Black and White's anti-piracy features, and not long after my best friend was complaining to me about how he couldn't level his Pokemon up. I found it hilarious.

[@camthesaxman3387]

Sounds like a challenge for SmallAnt.

[@nachovyofficial]

@@camthesaxman3387 nah Mandjtv, pm7 and plurplecliff

[@pokemonweeaboopikachuninja8745]

@@nachovyofficial point crow

[@wimpy_wolf6157]

maybe emulators have evolved since then but i pirated black and was still able to level pokemon anyway

[@MetalDeeds]

Anti-Piracy is one of my favorite things to research. No clue why.

[@4eversupersonicgirl]

looking at this video now, i want to see more, lol.

[@komasangamer7746]

Yeah, I’m actually kinda into fan made anti piracy screens too.

[@tibethatguy]

@@komasangamer7746 s a m e

[@Portalcrafter]

Komasan Gamer same here

[@birukb273]

maybe because you like seeing how developers punish the pirates? that’s how it is for me

[@RavenWitchShade]

Surprised you didn't mention Game Dev Tycoon, where it's impossible to succeed in it if you're playing a pirated copy, cause everyone in-game pirates the game you make.

[@ori.g4mi]

Meta

[@DerpySnake]

The only way this would happen is if you were one of the people who downloaded the fake crack that was uploaded by the dev himself.

[@RavenWitchShade]

@@DerpySnake That's true, was just the second thing that came to mind after Pokemon myself.

[@shadou1234567]

i am pretty sure they allready commented on it on another piracy video. It is a commom topic for this channel they touch at least once a year

[@RavenWitchShade]

@@shadou1234567 That's true as well. Least they don't do it in abundance like WatchMojo in that regard (like the ANOTHER Top Ten X or Top Ten X Redux)

[@sninctbur3726]

Pokemon: "Can you please actually buy our game? Pretty please? Will you do it if we let your Pokemon level?" Cross Days: "We'll fucking dox you"

[@berdstep]

This is a good comment

[@HanamaruAnimeGame]

Rosa: fine I will never trust cross days from this Pokemon your the best sure I’ll buy the game!

[@shareosu7048]

School days knock off

[@tammytheranger7645]

This is 4K! *HOW DID THEY CATCH YOU IN 4K?!*

[@SDiDuro]

Main developer of Freedom Planet here! Thanks for the mentioning our game! I just want to add a couple of points of clarification: First, the piracy conversation actually isn't used at all in the game, since we weren't sure how to detect if the player was using a pirated copy, but we decided to leave it in the game's audio files anyway as a neat little easter egg for curious players (and there are other unused bloopers in the files as well, such as one where the main villain sings). Second, the artwork you used of Lilac is actually very early concept art of the character; This design looked far too similar to characters in the Sonic franchise, so her appearance was changed to resemble a dragon more closely.

[@zxcvb_bvcxz]

Just bought the game due to this comment :D

[@carlbloke8797]

SpacemanStrife just curious. Do you post videos anymore?

[@TankEngine75]

Nice

[@tibethatguy]

@Jordan Tillman It was inspired by Sonic.

[@dapperfan44]

I've been meaning to get around to getting it on PS4.

[@Chaos89P]

I actually preferred the whole "It looks like you're running a pirated game. Mind showing your support by either donating or actually purchasing the game?" anti-piracy measure, along with those that do something silly like have your avatar wear an unremovable pirate hat.

[@avriil6446]

Well at least they are not revealing your personal information just because you pirated an erotic novel.

[@Rubyshedinja33]

@@avriil6446 what

[@avriil6446]

@@Rubyshedinja33 what

[@tisthecat]

@@avriil6446 or at least they're not deleting your save files completely

[@xTwilightWolvesx]

@@Rubyshedinja33 2:10

[@GreyWolfLeaderTW]

The best anti-piracy measures are those which are hidden and cause the pirates to out themselves without realizing it, such as some RPGs where enemies become extremely powerful after a few levels through the game, and the pirates then go online asking for help beating these overpowered foes.

[@matiasrivas1692]

Another one was Skull Girls. If it was pirated, you wouldn't get so much as the credits but a text box reading "What is the square root of a fish? Now I am sad." after beating arcade mode and before going back to the menus. Pirates would go online asking for the answer to such a riddle only to unknowingly out themselves in the process.

[@omarmartinez8031]

That's some good pixel art tbh

[@philosoaper]

if that happened to me, i'd go looking for a trainer/cheat long before I would ever bother asking for help.. weird people..

[@chigoziea.991]

that's pretty funny

[@BuzzedtheTower]

Or like one of the Arkham games. The glide feature on Batman's cape wouldn't work so people would get stuck in the poison room or whatever and die. The ones that posted about the "glitch" they encountered told everyone they were pirates

[@zucchini_zucchini]

Imagine you are a pokemon trainer then you go fight someone only for the world around you to suddenly freeze as you come to the conclusion that your reality is fake and was in fact just a pirated DS game.

[@Ospyro3em]

.....Deep, man

[@iwuvmonika5559]

What is this, Doki Doki Literature Club Pokemon version?

[@hellointernet4467]

@@iwuvmonika5559 Hahaha... NO.

[@FriskDrinksBrisk]

I'd be like:" I've been living a lie a metamorphical scheme Detective undercover brotherhood Objective Obscene o no no o yea

[@mrgingles4340]

I was playing pokemon heart gold through deSmuME emulator, all was good, but the screen in the game suddenly glitched and played a sound. (sorry for my bad english)

[@Calvin_Coolage]

Serious Sam 3's anti-piracy measure is my personal favorite. It just spawns an unkillable, incredibly fast scropion that hounds you throughout the whole game. You can beat the game with the Scorpion chasing you, and there's even a speedrunning category for it.

[@Probably_Daniel]

Well, crime does, (not sorry) *HAVE A STING IN IT'S TAIL!* Oh my god, I watch too many anti piracy videos on KZbin.

[@AnimeFanFTW25]

As an Australian, it's nice that the devs for Hotline Miami 2 are fine with australians pirating the game. I would have bought the game otherwise, but the australian government treats its people like children.

[@TalkingTurtle97]

AnimeFanFTW ain’t that the truth

[@AnimeFanFTW25]

@Hesusio I mean, a friend from overseas gifted a steam key for the game to me, so I do have it. Just the fact I need a friend from overseas to get me the game is just sad tho.

[@zxcvb_bvcxz]

GOG store, clear cookies, VPN, go. Support the devs without supporting Valve.

[@carlbloke8797]

AnimeFanFTW how about support the devs that make good games instead of taking their stuff and mooching off it

[@AnimeFanFTW25]

@@carlbloke8797 Did you not read a single thing I've said in this thread?

[@tealopalstreamarchives6894]

"Creators of the erotic visual novel Cross Days" Well that escalated quickly.

[@Kenshiro3rd]

Opal no kidding... they flat out hacked and doxxed their asses.

[@TheAshholeBoy]

Instead of fucking leaking the personal data of people, would be better to just destroy the O.S or display a joke video in a infinite loop? :V

[@latenight7528]

😂😂😂

[@gameboy3d943]

TheAshholeBoy They deserve it anyways.

[@darknes4150]

pretty sure what they did is illegal as well

[@JUSTKOZ]

That cross days one is extreme

[@lotus-prince]

Earthbound really ruined your day. It made leveling up excruciatingly difficult, as enemies are way harder than normal, and just before the final boss, the game would delete your save data.

[@Matanumi]

Wow really!? The first one?

[@Valancet]

@@Matanumi I guess kind of.... Earthbound, but originally known as Mother 2. So technically the second one. There is only one Earthbound since the sequel is known as Mother 3.

[@brycevo]

Antipiracy can be a real pain in the ass, especially if it's an old PC game, as some had to connect to dead sites. But some Devs have fun with pirates

[@Dracomut]

Agreed, but I have to admit that it is an understandable pain in the ass. Whenever I get shafted by mediocre DRM, I can't help but think game devs are going through the same feeling when their games get pirated.

[@Twintania]

i have a copy of ghostbusters that won't work anymore because of securom and the sites dead so it thinks I have hit the activation limit, oh well.. just got the 360 version which seems just as good

[@Compucles]

..or there are the ones that use physical inserts that can be easily lost or destroyed.

[@GameZard]

DRM are anticonsumer and is cancer for gaming.

[@demilung]

​@@Dracomut Maybe, but the problems the developers have with some other people don't have anything to do with the fact that you're not getting the service you've paid money for. Pirates will just shrug and go play any of the other thousands of pirated games, while you get to pay for it in both meanings of the word.

[@gamer39985]

Isn't the Cross Days one pretty much illegal? Getting some major "Sonic Gather Battle" flashbacks...

[@solarissect6649]

i'm out of the loop, what the peck is Sonic Gather Battle?

[@hypno18s]

@@solarissect6649 A sonic fan fighting game that would block looking at sonic stuff if it thought you ripped it's sprite's which were actually sonic teams.

[@solarissect6649]

@@hypno18sHow would it block you from looking at sonic stuff? some secret virus in a download?

[@solarissect6649]

@@cubemation2379 Jesus, that's.....strong for anti-piracy that's for sure.

[@hypno18s]

@@solarissect6649 It was a virus it was a Trojan. Here's more info you want to know just how bad it was. malware.wikia.com/wiki/Sonic_Gather_Battle

[@lastlife0726]

Telling pirates to just donate directly to the devs is such a baller move. Feels like an agreement to screw over the middle man and I can dig that.

[@OpiupAlmaManiac]

2:03 This is the most brutalist anti-piracy I've ever heard of

[@Ninjukken]

imagine doxing someone because they copied ur game

[@BigClaudia]

is still illegal, so the user and creator are making something of illegal: BIG BRAIN!

[@yuuhemi]

@@BigClaudia doxxing is much worse than piracy

[@Ninjukken]

@@yuuhemi facts, that shit could get someone killed lol

[@billy5642]

@@BigClaudia Apparently if the user read the EULA, it straight up states that they will do this if the user runs a pirated copy. If they actually read it they would have known. Doxing is bad but I think that is how the company covered there ass when doing it.

[@AyakaruJuuhachi]

One big issue with calculating the ‘damages’ is the assumption that all pirated copies equal a missed sale. For example, a game cost 15 euros. 10 pirated copies aren’t 150 euros in damages. Most likely, 8 of the 10 ‘pirates’ chose to pirate it because they found the game too expensive, or didn’t have the money at all. Hence there is no missed sale, since the game would never have been bought. In retrospect, it is also believed that people who got to play 1 pirated game in a series, would then buy the restof the series. Something they would’ve never done if they hadn’t played a pirated game first. I’m not defending piracy here, but the damage calculations are often very shortsightef.

[@LucisLou]

GabeN also had a good point when he said piracy is a result of a service problem or not being able to buy the game in the first place. People living in a lot of African and certain poor countries cannot buy games legitimately without paying a ton for importing and thus have to pirate games and play with emulators. People that want to and can buy games will do so. Those that cannot will pirate. And those that are lazy and don't want to do some work and get the tools to dump their own ROMs for emulators will download ROMs online instead.

[@Buglin_Burger7878]

Here is another fun thing. Emulating games often gives you some unique and cool features. As a kid I use to play tactical games or deal with RNG... as an adult I can now use said pirated copies of games I own to better understand them and even use Save States to learn which events are scripted, RNG based, or see things otherwise impossible. Yes, your experience can actually be ENHANCED because of the features.

[@CiromBreeze]

Also some emulators have extra features too, which often makes playing on them superior to original hardware. Full HD 1080p Kirby Air Ride, anyone? Sonic Colours at 60fps? Smash Bros Melee with *online multiplayer?*

[@FlameRat_YehLon]

@@LucisLou That's whjy Steam games would be way cheaper in China, and supports popular payment methods in China as well.

[@周生生-f1f]

The only reason people are buying games is because anti piracy especially in consoles are a pain in the ass and is less routine (think NDS and R4 cards that is absolutely everywhere; nowadays trying to jailbreak even a 3DS and Switch could require physically resoldering the console with aggressive maneuvers from Nintendo to patch up known weaknesses, and games require internet collection to even function or be connected to others). In my days it's not just NDS games where people quit Pokemon altogether since the transition to 3DS, people who played Minecraft ended up never buying the game at all and is content with playing the pirated version until they grew bored of it. And even then some people still adamantly has to find a way to pirate games off the internet. Believing in people will buy a game down the road is silly.

[@Shenaniganizer620]

2:00 ok I get that piracy is bad and maybe it should just make the game unplayable but that is completely overkill and a dick move

[@DefinitiveDubs]

2:27 Or sue them for illegally doxxing you. But hey. You also failed to mention Bowser's Inside Story, which stumped DS hackers for years.

[@PokeMario-pk4ot]

What did Bowser's Inside Story do?

[@theluckygamer10]

Seriously. What'd it do?

[@mouthlesshater]

WHAT DID BIS DO?

[@loifester]

2 years late, but since slack-o wont tell you, I will! Bowsers Inside Story will softlock the game in such a weird way, that it stumped the hackers for the simplest anti pirate method

[@ChristopherMoom]

Earthbound has great anti piracy measures

[@landonaustin1168]

What does it do?

[@somecallmejah1104]

@@landonaustin1168 can't play at first. If you bypass that, the game will have way more enemies and will be generally harder. Then at giygas, it'll crash and delete your saves

[@sandeia]

It's extremely clever: when Ness shuts off the Devil's Machine (near the end of the game) the game crashes and deletes the saves. This means that it destroys all the things pirated, as pirates are like hell for Nintendo. Real clever once you think about it.

[@Coaster42]

@@sandeia In what way does deleting the players saves "destroy all things pirated"?

[@sandeia]

@@Coaster42 By shutting down the Devil's Machine, Giygas lost all of his power, and what he was building up to. In the same way, so does the player.

[@Sean-D78]

Did you know that Piracy has nothing to do with pirates?

[@cactus4764]

My disappointment is unmeasureable

[@melchior6427]

YOU ARE A PIRATE!!!

[@GreyWolfLeaderTW]

*Scratches head Maybe not Naval 17th century pirates, but the definition of a Pirate is merely someone who illegally steals/confiscates property from someone else.

[@padacuw4722]

And my day is ruined

[@KatherineFtw]

Technically, Digital Pirates do neither. It's more like if somebody bought a car and then cloned it from nothing.

[@Wolfkaosaun]

I remember when one of my old childhood friends told me he had a problem where his Pokemon wouldn't gain EXP for some reason in Pokemon Black. Dude ended up having to go to court for selling counterfeit merchandise years later. True story

[@2810Mad]

Source: Dude trust me

[@philatio1744]

Oh shit, really?

[@doraeguyakaneddie6586]

Wolfkaosaun *China wants to know your location*

[@prismaux5168]

"true story"

[@Chaos89P]

@Edwin Cheesecake The disturbing thing - for me, at least - is I believe that there are people like in your story that actually exist. "No wonder you dumped her."

[@_sktc_]

I get why they did it, but the cross days anti-piracy measure was a bit fucked up, not to mention basically illegal. Surely the developers could have thought of a better way to prevent piracy than exposing people on the internet?

[@penguinmaster7]

precisely. they were basically doxxing people. even in japan, that's not cool.

[@ZunarSR]

Honestly if you're dumb enough to put your information on something like that, that's on you. It's like putting your credit card number into an insecure website and then getting mad when someone steals your money. No one to blame but yourself really.

[@_sktc_]

@@ZunarSR Yeah, but still. Posting stuff like that can ruin people's lives. Obviously I don't condone piracy, but I don't think it's right to reveal private information of people, especially not when that can literally ruin people's entire lives.

[@HaohmaruHL]

that's a thing in japan. No one gaves a fuck about personal information itself. It's that japanese people are scared shitless about losing face since japanese society is all about status and hierarchy, so public shaming is their worst nightmare.

[@leonmouse27]

Funny thing is that everyone who's stuff ended up online had actually agreed to it as it was in the terms of service for the fake installer of the game. Better yet, the whole scheme is revealed in the fake installer's terms of service agreement, something no one reads.

[@Norinia]

3:41 that’s not the worse idea, considering a usual reason for pirating games is because that person can’t find the game anymore. So here, rather than punish the pirates, it’s appealing to their morals (which granted, not all have) and asking, instead of blowing the computer up like most, if you can contribute for being able to play the game. That’s a nice way of handling it for once.

[@FloridusMan]

"Both this screenshot and the user's personal information would then be posted online for the whole world to see" So basically pirated Cross Days copies are Sonic Gather Battle hmm?

[@michaeldesroches6671]

Said Fayad which is ilegal drm

[@VantasticK]

There's a difference. Sonic Gather Battle simply just went overboard in preventing cheating (i.e. Breaking the game if you use cheat engine or look up cheats), while Cross Days straight up just posted your personal info online.

[@toblerone1729]

And comes with blackmail, too

[@classonbread5757]

I know a person who fucked them in the pussy.... He had no issues with the trojan virus and then bought a legal copy and contacted the devs saying it has a problem so it was mailed to them and it had the same virus in it and it fucked their servers up.

[@nitronikolai]

That's just down right wrong and illegal it doesn't matter if they pirated the game two wrongs *_DOES NOT_* make a right

[@hoobidibahbidibah8119]

It's always cool to see clever ways devs combat piracy, but Cross Days is "cross"ing the line.

[@Chaos89P]

I think it got crossed about three times.

[@L33PL4Y]

I don't think so. You deserve pretty much whatever's coming to you if you're going to pirate games.

[@terrariafanthefloran]

Yeah that's harsh,I mean who comes up with that idea must be mental I MEAN VERY MENTAL Note: I don't hate mental people

[@funkyenby5794]

Chillin' Like a Villain Killin' Krillin i don’t think you deserve to be potentially doxxed

[@donaldbaird7849]

@@L33PL4Y Pirating isn't so black and white dude, grow up

[@Sparseley]

Pokemon Black & White: you can’t defeat me Pirates: I know but he can *Looks at Smallant1*

[@lyn4739]

The Cross Days scenario is just a lawsuit waiting to happen

[@jayfolk]

Gabe Newell said the route to stopping piracy isnt so.much the price but accessibility.

[@Rokabur]

That's why I have almost 230 games in my Steam library (mostly indies and older games).

[@Salesman9001]

My 300 steam games say that he was right. Games were very expensive (think 120€+) and had low accessibility for me during 90's and early 2000's so I had literally all of the games in my bookshelf for the cost of the disks, 90% of that was hot garbage tho and not worth even the shelf space used. My steam library is 300 excellent games that I no longer have time to play, but at least I can get more whenever I want. GabeN just take my moneys pls

[@solarrrrrrrr]

The Cross Days one is too cruel

[@douglas4934]

I don't consider a "loss in sales" to the developers, simply because if I couldn't pirate a game, I wouldn't buy it anyway, so it's not a loss.

[@lastlife0726]

It also assumes people who pirated haven't also legally acquired the game. I can't tell you how many times I've watched a movie online because it wasn't accessible via streaming and I didn't want to deal with hooking up my Blu-ray player.

[@Radditz770]

Fun fact: the EU had a study made to analyse the results from piracy. The study concluded that piracy did not harm any media directly, and the gaming market had even benefitted from piracy. At this point, they hid the study away cuz they didn't want that result getting out.

[@SilentLegion96]

Radditz770 Please link this supposed study.

[@Radditz770]

@@SilentLegion96 publications.europa.eu/en/publication-detail/-/publication/59ea4ec1-a19b-11e7-b92d-01aa75ed71a1/language-en

[@Porygonal64]

The EU also wants to ban memes, so...

[@jeneralgod]

Piracy is more like a try before you buy the legit game. Illegal copies of games do have their limits if they have online features included

[@KokoroKatsura]

piracy is still piracy

[@Bedinsis]

In the PC game Starflight before taking off from your central hub planet you must enter three key words corresponding to an on screen number. If you enter correctly nothing happens, but if you enter incorrectly, next time you take off from a planet you will be surrounded by a swarm of hostile spaceships which upon inspection reveals themselves to be police cars. Using the in game communication system you are given a second chance to enter a correct password, otherwise you're mincemeat.

[@yugix_1]

1:55 i live in a 3rd world country, and this is the reason why as a kid i was never able to beat pokemon black. i had a mod (that i didnt know how to remove) that allowed me to have a lot of cheats, so the xp wasnt an issue, but i could never get past the cold storage section after the 4th badge

[@johndmgs]

I can remember Heart Gold and Soul Silver having another anti-piracy measure where if you were playing a downloaded copy, the game would freeze once the step counter reached a certain number.

[@Tomsonic41]

Puggsy on the Sega Genesis had a very simple copy protection system. The cartridge contained no battery save system, but the game was programmed to be able to write data to it. Thing is, many of the illegal copier devices DO emulate the battery save for copied games - so if the game can write to the SRAM, it knows you're playing it on a copier - and locks you out after the first few levels! "Right! That's all the levels of Puggsy you're allowed to play. Now go buy a cartridge version of the game instead of this silly copy"

[@thegamingpromaster]

It should honestly be legal to pirate games that are at least 3 generations older, the developers at that point wouldn't get anything from it, and paying $200 dollars for a gamecube game probably isn't worth it

[@chigoziea.991]

I agree :P

[@Rokabur]

I say any game/console that is no longer supported should be free game. How much money is Nintendo 'losing' from people 'pirating' N64, Gamecube, Wii and Wii U games?

[@Aarosh123playz]

@@Rokabur well they are literally emulating their classics onto new systems to have a valid reason not to pirate. Which is very scummy in my personal opinion.

[@Ark_Strike]

The main issues isn't that "they are still selling them" its that the original creators aren't getting anything out of those sales. Like Deus Ex or any PS1 game, they might still be sold online but the original developers are either not around anymore or haven't touched the IP in a decade at least. Also, most "classic" titles aren't making a profit to anybody but the current IP owners, which is kinda shitty.

[@keplen3073]

I don't know where you live but gamecubes in my area cost like 30 - 15 € (without controllers/games tho)

[@Shivery]

And I thought the "Nice Boat" was controversy enough for School Days.

[@ItsNep]

I firmly believe Piracy is okay so long as the game isn't produced or available from a first party anymore. I mean, buying a repro cart of a game, for example, isn't netting the actual developers any money, nor is downloading a ROM of a game that isn't for sale other than people on Ebay and the like providing it for absurd prices causing a loss of money for the company/developers.

[@UtopieKid]

That is the only scenario where I can see piracy being somewhat okay. But that's about it.

[@boshwa20]

Gamers just love breaking laws

[@ItsNep]

@@boshwa20 lmao okay

[@boshwa20]

@@Hirrei Like I said, very casual law breaking

[@AstralPhnx]

Yeah this is pretty much my stance on it

[@omarrrio930223]

>loses billions of dollars to piracy every year Que J.J Jameson laugh track from spider man

[@ThatNormalBunny]

bit.ly/1RCMdfr

[@PhirePhlame]

Not only do pirated copies not necessarily replace sales, but when I was younger I actually pirated on occasion when there was no demo to help me make a purchasing decision. At least a couple of sales that may not have otherwise happened.

[@Rukathesoldier]

Pokemon not gaining exp sounds like a fun challenge. You have to catch new stronger pokemon often and use TMs to get new moves.

[@TaliesinMyrddin]

Did you know? A great way to reduce the effects of piracy is to improve availability, affordability and accessibility.

[@carlrygwelski586]

I always had a problem playing SoulSilver on my R4, the game would freeze at random times and if I wasn't constantly saving I was screwed. But I never had that battle freeze with just my pokeballs spinning. It was always at random times and complete freeze

[@stygiann]

Why is the algorithm showing me nothing but antipiracy videos?

[@BobbyMiller64]

That Freedom Planet message was adorable! I love that game.

[@Ralphiriusgr8]

Another thing that happened in HGSS`s pirated copies were frequent crashes which, if I recall, were due to garbage memory piling up in the area allocated for the gym badges. After getting like 5 badges, the game would become unplayable

[@octapusxft]

How did the Cross Days company survived after such privacy breach? I could understand them sending messages to the pirates they catch for warning them to stop, but doxxing is a clear cut crime with the clear intention to harm others.

[@Sam-Cain]

4:27 - And that is why Devolver Digital will always be the best video game publisher! Just standing up and saying proudly "You can't buy our game? Then fuck it, you have our blessing to go and find it for free!" It only makes sense. I mean, if there's no legal way to obtain a game, then why the hell shouldn't pirating be encouraged in that case? There's no accounting for lost sales when sales are impossible in the first place.

[@BlumiTheGhost]

Back in early 2013 I pirated No Time to Explain. It was pretty normal for me, a broke 15 year old, to pirate games back then, but that humorous message actually made me realize what I was doing, so I created a steam account, purchased the game with my lunch money and never pirated again.

[@therealtrue842]

You forgot about Spyro: Year of the Dragon. The game would randomly change languages, the game would remove pausing and some gems would be missing.

[@louiepikmin3184]

That's by far my favorite anti-piracy measure in any game. It would do everything in its power to just annoy the player as much as it could. It would remove gems, remove eggs, crash randomly, and cause tons of glitchy effects. At the end, if you somehow managed to get through all of that torture, the game would crash and when it loaded back up, it would COMPLETELY erase your save file.

[@ShinigamiKristak]

And now more than 2 million people realised how dumb they were to illegally download a pirated copy of Pokémon Platinum instead of buying it for around 40$ of the time as for now copies of the game goes around 70$ online.

[@chirrupu]

My jaw dropped when I heard the anti piracy measure for Cross Days. In what fucking world is that a legal anti piracy measure wtf

[@PixelBug91]

What about Game Dev Tycoon? The developers actually released the pirated version online with the infamous pirate mode that made it's way to the latest update and mobile versions of the game.

[@HanamaruAnimeGame]

Anti Piracy: PKMN HGSS: Unable to play via hacked or emulation before After it was fixed it was able to play it. PKMN B&W and B2&W2: Infrared if no infrared pirate game and limit your experience even more. However cheat codes and more were able to kill that. Jet Set Willy: Had the 1st ever anti-piracy protection however it was exploited and killed after a UK Magazine published it. Cross Days: Gets Your Personal Info and you had to admit your crime to the devs ( the most painful anti piracy that the game had in the history of video games from the arcades to today )

[@HanamaruAnimeGame]

Freedom Planet: Well the best greatest ever game to support you from piracy by donating from their official website. No need to explain: welp created a game from the devs and pirate hat can’t be removed and it was a joke and tells you to buy the game after that. ( hahahahahahahaha! Funniest joke in the history of video games ever! ) Hotline Miami 2: welp banned in AUSTRALIA 🇦🇺 devs devolved digital and coder Jonathan make them pirate the game for users from Australia for those who did not get the game.

[@juiceala]

Being friends with one of the beta testers of Freedom Planet, he gave me access to a download link to the game, which technically isn't piracy per say, seeing how it wasn't cracked or anything, just an official download of the game meant only for the staff and testers to get a hold on, long story short, I played the game for free, I loved it, I bought two copies one on Wii U and one on Switch, and then promoted it to several of my friends eho bought it as well. Moral of the story is, sometimes "piracy" isn't the reight choice of word and by providing a free sample or being cool with gamers who may be low on cash or uncertain of a purchase, you'd be surprised they might end up supporting the product even more. One instant I'm never to forget is the anti-piracy in Spyro 3, untill this day it bothers me how Inever beat the game because of it, though I bought the Reignited Trilogy and hopefully I'll get around playing it someday and finally check this game off my list.

[@AlphaPHK]

Me:Oh cool! Freedom Planet is in the vide- *Lilac's old design pops in the screen at 3:26 Me: *...nooooooooo... DDD:*

[@aarongoddard2642]

I don't give a rat's ass what the reasoning was, doxing people is wrong. It should be illegal

[@doraeguyakaneddie6586]

Aaron Goddard Isn’t it already illegal?

[@claudesigma3784]

It is already illegal in the US actually.

[@zucchini_zucchini]

@@doraeguyakaneddie6586 surprisingly doxxing can be actually be legal at times. There are some situations where it isnt legal as well though. EDIT: It isnt illegal if the person's info is already online. For example if they reveal their location on Facebook and you dox them to get their location, it apparently isnt illegal. However if you use the information to blackmail them, its illegal. www.google.com/amp/s/metro.co.uk/2017/07/05/what-is-doxing-and-is-it-illegal-heres-how-people-dox-and-what-you-can-do-to-avoid-it-6757123/amp/

[@HiddenGemsReviews]

As illegal as it is to dox people, taking screenshots of the desktop and posting them to their website was completely legal if it was in the Terms and Service for the game. And should you have illegally downloaded it and went against those Terms, well, they have no one to blame but themselves at that point.

[@TheTundraTerror]

@@HiddenGemsReviews Last I checked, ToS' don't circumvent the law.

[@DjPyro2010]

The song that plays in the background at 3:46 is Hollywood Heights by Mitch Murder. It was not recorded in the 80s.

[@unitredacted9051]

I can say that encouraging pirates to buy the game works. I personally wanted to get a game when I didn’t have money. It had a message that said thanks for buying and talked about how much their fans meant and it just broke me, I had to buy it.

[@snbeast9545]

In Minecraft's very early days Notch would give away keys, and he said that he doesn't care if you pirate the game if you couldn't pay.

[@13EqualsB]

How to get views on DYKG videos. Add Pokemon in the thumbnail

[@NathanRHimself]

Lol thank you forever for coolrom supplying us playing heartgold everyday in school before going home

[@carlbloke8797]

Rauchthecouch kinda miss coolrom

[@Gotmilk0112]

Similar to Jet Set Willy, there was a C64 game "Monty On The Run" which had a similar anti-piracy measures. At the start of the game, you are prompted to select a bunch of different equipment, and if you don't select the proper combination, the game will create an impassable barrier about halfway through. The correct equipment combination was listed in the game's manual.

[@AwesomeMooseSmile]

I find it funny that the games that try to stop you from pirating the most are the big name companies like nintendo, square enix, or Sony, whereas with indie games which are concerned to be the only type of games that are immoral to pirate, the anti piracy is usually either very minor "Hey I know you're pirating our games, that's fine, but can you still support us by sharing our game or donating please"

[@Jakob_Herzog]

4:44 Now there's a game I haven't played in a while. That game was awesome on game boy.

[@Sanjixoxo]

*YOHOYOHO A PIRATES LIFE FOR ME!*

[@ducksareurlords3782]

Really...

[@youngmichaelog]

i remember once b&w came out that the first roms had (no xp) in the name

[@Tisson8891]

Merry Christmas DYK Gaming Team

[@ivantheturtle3701]

Didn't the Witcher 3 replace hot women with grannies if you pirate the game?

[@DekuKira_3]

Ya

[@albertzinger7132]

No, it had no anti-piracy measures whatsoever.

[@melvin8d671]

I mean, isn't that also a reason for some people to pirate it?

[@kgobl1n]

That's somebody's fetish you know.

[@nikuzair]

pretty sure that was witcher 2

[@1Hol1Tiger]

Yeah that Cross Days one is a crime

[@Secretforest100]

"Gaming industry loses billions of dollars to piracy each year." I call bullshit.

[@zacharymogel9500]

He’s not talking about one company

[@cephalosphericcreations7748]

Aw the Freedom Planet one is so cute though. I want to buy it multiple times just to support it

[@tjofcarolina1776]

The cross days one actually sounds very unethical, even towards a pirate

[@tiacat11]

Especially when you think about how serious Japan is about propriety. If someone found out you were downloading what's essentially porn in your free time, even though it IS your personal free time, there could be serious repercussions.

[@jadeamulet2339]

It’s also literally illegal

[@FLYNN_TAGGART]

I love how some video footage of the Pokemon games is from high resolution emulators

[@mavrickindigo]

Were they really lost sales if the people were never going to buy the games in the first place?

[@redwidow1358]

Honestly, that's my question. The only reason I pirated as much as I did on the 3DS was because Nintendo made it easy to browse through all the game I could have. I would have only pirated the Zelda games, Mario Kart, and a few others.

[@noukan42]

If you care about a game so much that you pirate it, then you care enought to eventually buy it when you have enought money to do so. Games don't stay full price very long this days, and usually go on sale multiple times an year.

[@4eversupersonicgirl]

@@noukan42 pirates DON'T care about the game so they DO pirate it....

[@jadeamulet2339]

@@4eversupersonicgirl nah they DO care about the game enough to pirate it. They might not have the money or ability to get the game otherwise

[@92nicu17]

I love the way you show off your patron names.

[@HoaxManTheOne]

gotta admit, i pirated so many pokemon games but ultimately this made me buy a 3ds xl for the newest pokemon games. and now they come out on switch. see this is a big factor why piracy is even a thing. if they would be available for purchase on pc id buy them without thinking twice

[@HoaxManTheOne]

@Natester_is_the_ultimate_gangster i own legal copies of any given generation minus Sw/Sh because i dislike it. Nintendo and Gamefreak defo made their money on me. just saying its a great way for broke teens that cant afford 60+ euro copies of 10 y/o games.

[@heggy_69]

2:04 that kinda banks in you actually giving your personal details though lmao

[@numbmind120]

Lost sales, only if those people was ever gonna buy your game, 99.9% won't, or never would.

[@Valancet]

Plus, some end up buying it afterwards because they were able to test it. Studies show that the losses from pirating are marginal and it actually increases profits in some cases.

[@AstralPhnx]

Ahhhh the cross days anti piracy measure. An over the top anti piracy measure bordering on illegal for an incredibly sub par visual novel. Absolutely unbelievable

[@MoisesCharles]

"bordering on"?

[@ArcRogerr]

"Heart Gold and Soul Silver run flawlessly via emulation" Not in my experience

[@ExtremeAce]

Yeah, they did glitch out quite a few times, and sometimes the screen goes completely black. But just save it and restart and then it runs normal again.

[@NoTraceOfSense]

Hotline Miami 2 devs: ǝɯ ɥʇᴉʍ ʇɥƃᴉɹlɐ sᴉ ǝʇɐɹᴉd ɐ ƃuᴉǝq ǝǝp ǝǝp ǝlppᴉɟ ɹɹɐɥ ɹɹɐʎ Freedom Planet devs: donate pls tinybuild: pirate hats Game Freak with HGSS: s🅱️innala Game Freak with BW: no exp for you 0verflow: _get fucking doxxed lol_

[@DarknessViper99]

What about Earthbound and how the battles become more difficult on pirated copies?

[@Wiifanbro]

Didn’t realize Freedom Planet had anti-piracy messages, can’t wait to see what the sequel has for us.

[@cheese0_4]

Piracy is no party

[@TheMillennialGamer]

You missed the awesome spin wheel decoder that came with the original Monkey Island for the PC. You had to line up certain parts of the wheel to get a keyword to put in during the install or it wouldn't work. "Functional, and stylish."

[@darth_hylian]

They should just play a never ending rick roll video instead

[@LiEnby]

JHJ282 that'd be copyright infringement lol

[@yuuhemi]

Imagine someone makes a game about Rick Astley and if you pirate you only get to play Never Gonna Give You Up lol

[@WyattBlankenship1234]

Little did he know that this will be super popular in two years

[@tuney7319]

3:37 now this, this is what anti piracy should be. Don’t fucking try to gatekeep your game, not everyone can afford any videogame, but the fact that they just said “it’s ok if you pirated this just please donate however you want to the creators” is exactly how it should be, not only is it inclusive to non privileged gamers but it actually gives a sensible option to supporting the creators;

[@Seinsmelled]

if they can't afford an indie game I don't think they gonna be donating lol

[@tuney7319]

@@Seinsmelled not all indie games are 5 dollars, besides games cost a specific price, you can donate as much as you want

[@C0metm]

Just like a wise man said. If you can’t afford the game just pirate it. Don’t forget to feel bad -Markus

[@huntergman8338]

"MetaFortress RESPONSE" - smurf's dance party.

[@edibleauto2341]

PIRACY IS NO PARTY!

[@zoroearc2582]

You forgot to mention what would happen if you pirated a copy of Pokémon Sun and Moon. The game would crash if you saved in a Pokémon Centre. Anyone who illegally downloaded the game before release also had the online functionality of all consoles connected to their accountant permanently disabled.

[@thischannelisajoke6810]

thanks for that.

[@TheKeitaNobodyAskedFor]

make a DYKG video on WarioWare!

[@melchior6427]

Yeah, that would be awesome!

[@philatio1744]

Agreed!

[@rouletteyourlocalkitkat]

HELL YEAH!

[@lightbluesquid]

Wa ha ha haaaa!!! Let that be a thing!! WarioWare needs love!

[@tristanneal9552]

I have a copy of SoulSilver that I bought on eBay as a teenager. It ran fine and I thought it was a totally legitimate copy, but now it won’t run on my 3DS so I’m basically permanently locked out of playing it, which sucks because it is my favorite game in the franchise.

[@JGJonny]

*Can I get an F for Freeshop?*

[@redwidow1358]

R.I.P. TheCruel

[@nunyabisness1979]

buu's fury also had an anti piracy message that would only appear after the tutorial telling players that the game was on unofficial hardware and would block the player from proceeding to the main story