garrys mod pirate error

ng93 · 13 Apr 2011 at 13:28

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/2011/04/13/garry-s-mod-traps-pirates-with-error/1

ahahahahahahaha

orderoftheflame · 13 Apr 2011 at 13:31

Saw this on another site. Good for them IMO.

Judgeneo · 13 Apr 2011 at 13:32

Good stuff

buchtis · 13 Apr 2011 at 13:36

This was on sale loads of times on Steam, there really is no excuse to pirate this amazing game.

cHk4 · 13 Apr 2011 at 13:40

Good on them.

paradisiac · 13 Apr 2011 at 13:41

maybe more devs should follow. but im sure the crakers/hackers will find a workaround.

Valentino · 13 Apr 2011 at 13:45

Excellent

The google search is quite funneh!

http://goo.gl/1CkT7

Valentino · 13 Apr 2011 at 13:46

paradisiac said:
maybe more devs should follow. but im sure the crakers/hackers will find a workaround.

A tweet from Garry:

I never claimed it was uncrackable - you can't stop pirates.. but you can troll them.

I can't imagine he is too fussed about it being pirated since up to version 9 it was free anyway.

thingemajib · 13 Apr 2011 at 14:29

didnt know there were ways of pirating games through steam

but still ... nice.

Tefal · 13 Apr 2011 at 14:33

these types of piracy protection have been used many times before, and iirc most of them have caused more issues for legit customers who are stuck with it forever causing problems while the pirates get it patched about about week after release.

Mattyjw · 13 Apr 2011 at 15:24

Doesn't the bit-tech article negate the point unless its already been implemented for a while. I have no interest in Garry's mod but from my perspective aren't the type of people who play it or would pirate it tech savvy enough that they would do a search and find the article/statement therefore catching the stupid pirates not the savvy buccaneers?

Vtec9k · 13 Apr 2011 at 15:32

You'd think so Mattyjw but clearly not!!

Love that twitter response

I hope there's no false positives though...

Antar Bolaeisk · 13 Apr 2011 at 16:14

Vtec9k said:
You'd think so Mattyjw but clearly not!!

Love that twitter response I hope there's no false positives though...

They can cross reference it against the data base. The error contained their steam id so all that needs to be done is check to see if they own a legit copy.

Tefal · 13 Apr 2011 at 16:15

Antar Bolaeisk said:
They can cross reference it against the data base. The error contained their steam id so all that needs to be done is check to see if they own a legit copy.

and then what?

They're still stuck with the error and an unplayable game.

Antar Bolaeisk · 13 Apr 2011 at 16:38

Tefal said:
and then what?

They're still stuck with the error and an unplayable game.

I presume it'll be un-updated though it would suck for legitimated customers to be effected by it in the mean-time.

Valentino · 13 Apr 2011 at 17:29

Tefal said:
and then what?

They're still stuck with the error and an unplayable game.

No, i'm pretty sure all it does, is cross-reference the steam id you are using, if it comes back and says you don't own it, you will get the 'error' I don't even think it is a real error. Garry has said it is impossible for it to effect a legitimate user.

thingemajib · 14 Apr 2011 at 13:59

2500 pirates ratted out in 15 hours. Ubisoft, EA and the like need to pay attention...

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/gaming/2011/04/13/garry-s-mod-error-catches-2-500-pirates-in/1

matthab · 14 Apr 2011 at 14:33

I prefer this method over the others used as it makes the game a pain to use and implemented correctly can do more harm to pirates.

TheCenturion · 14 Apr 2011 at 14:56

Amazing!! Isn't there something similar in Batman: AA ? Where you can only complete half the game?

Evilsod · 14 Apr 2011 at 14:58

Tefal said:
and then what?

They're still stuck with the error and an unplayable game.

Valentino said:
No, i'm pretty sure all it does, is cross-reference the steam id you are using, if it comes back and says you don't own it, you will get the 'error' I don't even think it is a real error. Garry has said it is impossible for it to effect a legitimate user.

http://www.facepunch.com/threads/1078239-Pirate-catching-catches-me.-I-did-not-pirate.

If the steam account linked to is indeed his it has over 4000 hours played on Garry's Mod

eek