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Re:Old-School PC Copy Protection Schemes (2006) by detaro on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @02:30AM (#12120176)
Settlers III broke the game similarly. You could start playing, but once you got to manufacturing weapons for your soldiers the iron smelters produced pigs instead of iron bars and you were stuck. (and few other, similar "bugs")
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Re:Old-School PC Copy Protection Schemes (2006) by ascagnel_ on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @09:52AM (#12121740)
Newer games do some similar things. Serious Sam 3 had an invulnerable enemy follow you around and attack you, while Batman Arkham Asylum took away the ability to glide with the cape.
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Re:Old-School PC Copy Protection Schemes (2006) by danbolt on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @04:34AM (#12120574)
They get points for the pun, too!
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Re:Old-School PC Copy Protection Schemes (2006) by sgift on Tuesday July 19, 2016 @09:11AM (#12121498)
And minus points for their copy protection scheme sometimes stopping originals from working. I buyed Settler III and it didn't work correctly (trees wouldn't grow back), so I phoned their support and they told me that that was the copy protection scheme in action. Great work ... thanks. At least they fixed it in an update.
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