How Candy Japan got credit card fraud somewhat under control

Re:How Candy Japan got credit card fraud somewhat under control by viggity on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @04:37PM (#11434153)

reminds me of "Game Dev Tycoon", where if it detected it was cracked, the player had a hard time progressing because their virtual company kept getting ripped off by crackers.

http://gameological.com/2013/05/inventory-9-games-with-creat... (it is the first one)

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Re:How Candy Japan got credit card fraud somewhat under control by hellbanner on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @05:55PM (#11434863)

More specifically, the player's simualated video game company goes bankrupt, "due to piracy", according to the game.

More details & discussion from Game Dev Tycoon's developer blog: http://www.greenheartgames.com/2013/04/29/what-happens-when-...

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Re:How Candy Japan got credit card fraud somewhat under control by Symbiote on Tuesday April 05, 2016 @06:43PM (#11435180)

For a much older example, Sim City gave continual disasters after about 10 minutes if the version was detected as pirated. This was 1990 or so.

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