5 Anti-Piracy Strategies That Screwed Over Regular Gamers

[InsaneNutter]

This is a pretty good read: 5 Anti-Piracy Strategies That Screwed Over Regular Gamers, some of the early measures are pretty extreme.

I remember number 1 happening quite well!

 

[MonsterMMORPG]

well the only way of preventing a piracy is making a completely online game

and making it free to play but in game purchase items

man when i was kid there were so many quality single player games. i don't know if any comes out recently

 

[InsaneNutter]

Even on-line only games can be pirated, i know people have made private servers for World of Warcraft. Not sure how good the experience would be though.

 

[DRAGG]

The experience isn't good, it's the same as with the emulated diablo 3 server, it's buggy, drop rates are toootaly unexpected and worst of all, sometimes you wonder into an empty are, just because.
The server reverse engineering takes a crapload of time thus the quality of early releases is "lacking", and a minor update can flip the table even on the already stable versions of emulators.