Publishers have tried many ways to combat piracy but Ubisoft have found a new and unique way to annoy game-thieves. Anyone who tries to play a dodgy version of Michael Jackson: The Experience on the Nintendo DS will find the King of Pop has some additional backing instruments.
The YouTube clip below shows how the game is rendered pretty much unplayable thanks to an unending chorus of Vuvuzelas. The on-screen prompts required to play the game have also been removed.
Reports that a pirated copy of Assassin’s Creed: Brotherhood features X-Factor’s Wagner Carriho ‘singing’ a medley of Elvis hits have yet to be confirmed.
Source: TinyCartidge / YouTube
DrNate86
Genius idea! I don’t get how it works though, how do they know if you are playing a dodgy copy and alter your game, or did they release a tampered ROM into the wild to be downloaded?
Grey_Ghost13
That’s what I was thinking, and surely the hackers will find away around it eventually?
Samiro05
I really want to know how they would do it n all. However I think if that information was divulged then it would go a long way with the hackers’ efforts to get around it.
gaffers101
More companies should do that. People would soon get fed and hopefully buy it leagally.
scavenga
Are people actually buying that Michael Jackson game..?
ProjectJAY
That is literally the best idea ever.
Tuffcub
If I dont win the “Best Sub-headline Award” this year I’m leaving TSA :)
jayjay119
I liked it, but I dunno if it award worthy!
Tuffcub
*cries*
carson321
now look what you’ve done, he’s going to go and eat all the biscuits now!
Boomshanks
Sorry but Bulletstorm’s “Son of a dick” has to take that one :P
Pedromr
Pirates Got Rick Rolled!
Dany2Step
heres a vid of the hacked version running, look how CRAZY mad the guy gets.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oHg5SJYRHA0
Andrew Wright
Darn….. I hate you !
iAvernus
Dam you!
jcor
Well its definitely the funniest anti-piracy measure I’ve ever seen.
Charmed_Fanatic
LOL funny
Samiro05
I imagine that this would make the game that much more hilarious when playing it at a party. I like Ubisoft and their madness (sometimes), as seen at E3 this year n all [maybe not as crazy as the ones in the smaller conferences which were just ultimately bizarre, yeah, you know which ones I’m on about]
3shirts
Remember when you could click a button to play vuvuzelas over any YouTube clip. That was annoying
colossalblue
If I remember correctly, Rocksteady did something similar with Arkham Asylum last year. If you pirated a copy then Batman didn’t have a cape.
That might not sound like much but it made the gliding control impossible… you just fell.
Tuffcub
Get you and your snowy gravatar!
carson321
that is a bit on the posh side isn’t it!
gazzagb
Legendary!