Give it a few years, this is what will happen when people buy used.

I don't get it. What's the point of playing then?

This is actually a brilliant idea. Ubisoft should take notes from Croteam and actually hinder the pirates experience and not the consumer that actually bought their games.

I preferred Take On Helicopters anti-piracy system that made the graphics in the game melt over time causing people to report it to the support forums

Edit: The next step for PC anti-piracy will probably be developers layering in anti-piracy systems and putting them up on the web, as in having melty graphics and invincible mobs after a few hours of play. Surely other creative things, perhaps constantly jamming ammo for shooters and such. Basically I can see a dev putting up 10 different versions of their own game on torrent sites that all have purposely placed faults to *** with pirates.

That is AWESOME!  If only more games utilized DRM like this, instead of servers that crash every time too many people try to log on...

This is the most ingenious way to get rid of pirates.

I support this and the Dark Souls Black Phantom approach 110%. :P

I like this way of messing with pirates. Though, I think it would be much better if there were swarms of the scorpions. XD

I think it would be great if devs did more of this.  Basically make it a chore for pirates to find the correct copy of the game.  Sure they will fix it eventually, but when its a part of the actual game code, its harder to detect.

Its going to be funny to see all the people who pirated go on forums and ask how do they kill the big pink scorpion.  Everyone else is going to be like "what big pink scorpion?"

I'm sure pirates could just put in a God Mode and not worry about him. But this is a much better solution than persistent connections.

Best anti-piracy method ever.

***, was actually planning to pirate this crap game. That's one good drm...still not gonna buy it tho, lol

"FEEL MY STING!"

If only more developers would take this approach to piracy. Just imagine an RPG where pirates could not progress past the first boss. Oh the lolz that would ensue...

This is stupid, if anything, people will crack their game to see what's like playing the game with that red scorpion and pirates will fix that in no time.

ha

I would make an NPC constantly t-bag you in the face. Man I hate pirates.

hilarious solution to a major problem affecting game companies everywhere

Dead Space 3 DRM: Twenty Ubermorphs in Chapter 1.

Please EA?

This is 1000x better than Online Passes and Ubisoft DRM! Much more effective!