VIDEO: Well, that’s one way to stop people from stealing your game

Matt Hawkins Contributing Writer, Video Games

Since wacky DRM schemes don’t seem to work, what’s the best way to fight video game piracy? Why, with a super powerful, super quick, and in the shade of pink scorpion.

Those who don’t pay their fair share for Serious Sam 3 will encounter the following in the first level. Try as you might, the Immortal Scorpion lives up to his namesake. Did I mention that he also has guns?

Thus we have yet another reason to love Serious Sam‘s developer’s creators, Croteam. As noted previously, their basic response to the piracy dilemma is to just make kick ass games that folks can’t help but want to support. Though it doesn’t help to have a back-up plan.

And there honestly hasn’t been an anti-piracy scheme that’s as effective, let alone as interesting, in ages. And hopefully others will take note and try something similar in their offerings, instead of requiring perpetual online connections and the like.

Or better yet, folks like EA and Ubi could do much to mend their damaged reputations by simply licensing out Immortal Scorpion in their games. Imagine trying to play a pirated copy of Driver: San Francisco and during the tutorial, that thing shows up, in the middle of the road!

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