EA's anti-piracy efforts douse Sims 4 in thick pixel coating


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EA's anti-piracy efforts douse Sims 4 in thick pixel coating

 

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Thanks to hidden anti-piracy measures, those who pirate The Sims 4 will find themselves staring at a pixelated mess instead of the colorful, virtual life simulation, reports Player Attack.

 

The blurring appears harmless enough at first. When a Sim steps into the shower or otherwise disrobes, the game censors the virtual nudity by applying a blob of thick pixels. Normally this would vanish once the Sim is dressed, but EA's anti-piracy measures ensure that any illicitly obtained copies of the game instead cause the censorship blur to expand, eventually covering the entire screen. The end result is the messy swirl of pixelated colors that you can see above.

 

The discovery of EA's clever anti-piracy strategies has not gone unnoticed by pirates, many of whom have taken to the game's official forums (link may not work as EA's forums have been displaying errors all morning) to complain about their "broken" copy of the game. Despite the complaints, EA tells Joystiq that it has no plans to aid those players unable to enjoy their pirated copies of The Sims 4. Instead, the publisher urges affected players to purchase their own copy of the game which should lack the telltale pixelation.

 

Source: joystiq

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How stupid can people be, getting a pirated copy then complaining about it on the official site.

Puts hand up 'Yes, I have a pirated copy of your game, now help me fix it, without paying for it!' Duh!

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Old news.

Current news is pirates have already fixed this problem by renaming some par file which was part of the crack.

I played upto Sims 3. I don't plan on playing V4.

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I knew a fix for this issue was going to get released, what did EA expect from pirated games?.. they're called cracks for a reason.

 

I'm still skeptical about buying this game, also i'm not a fan of loading times and this game is filled with that crap.

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lol quote from another website.

Funny things is that the entire article is based on a incorrect assumption to. It's blurred because the par file (TS4.par) is trying to interact with ts4.exe, but that's not running due to the crack. Changing the name of the .par file to the name of the new exe fixes the issue!! TS4.par needs to be renamed to whatever the crack is named...that's all folks :)
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This shouldn't be much of a problem for anyone who watches enough Japanese porn.

 

Hahaha! That's the funniest thing I've read in a good while. :D 

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This shouldn't be much of a problem for anyone who watches enough Japanese porn.

lol  - Luckily I don't buy or like EA, so they can play their little consumer games all they want :D

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Love this, shame it has been patched. Although it's time for developers to stop going after pirates and rewarding gamers for buying their game.

 

Kinda like Adobe Creative Cloud, yes we can pirate their software but paying for it brings so many benefits, i know it's not a game but still, they must be able to implement things that make people want to buy their game... i guess with PCs the lack of multiplayer will force some people to buy it but there is still a huge group who quite happily play games in single player, and games that are single player only don't have that safety net.

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Love this, shame it has been patched. Although it's time for developers to stop going after pirates and rewarding gamers for buying their game.

 

This all over. And not just for games either.

RIAA & MPAA, i'm looking at you.

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This is good and all for a quick laugh, but the sad reality is this probably took more time to add to the game than it did to be removed from the game via a fixed crack.

 

Not really, since it wasn't an intentional anti piracy solution, read the thread. 

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This has already been cracked by the pirates. 
The game can be played as intended, but I aint going to provide any links.

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Must be nice at least for the tech support, not having to troubleshoot all these issues due to piracy. Decrease the unnecessary workload, allowing you to focus on your paying customers.

 

It's only too bad that things like this can be easily patched. If only there was a better way to make it just not worthwhile to patch.

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I'm surprised people are actually playing this game; what with the extremely neutered gameplay compared to previous games in the series.

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I'm still skeptical about buying this game, also i'm not a fan of loading times and this game is filled with that crap.

 

LGR's review of Sims 4.  When it comes to anything Sims, hes the only reviewer really worth listening to.

 

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Any reviews for the pixelated version?

 

No.  He may not know of it yet.  I'm sure he'll bring it up eventually though, if not just out of amusement. ;)

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