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A post on the Bohemia Interactive Forums asks for help with a problem causing a watery image degradation in Take On Helicopters, Bohemia's new flight simulator. As it turns out this can be the result of using a pirated edition of the game, as Bohemia explains this comes from their "unique anti-piracy countermeasures," also noting a demo for the game is in the works. Here's word: Bohemia Interactive deploys various antipiracy countermeasures in its titles and Take On Helicopters is no exception, some users have reported morphed/watery image degradation (see http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=126991 ). The original version of Take On Helicopters does not suffer from this degradation of visual quality. Piracy is a big problem for Bohemia Interactive, as an independent PC developer, and we're trying to focus our support as much as possible towards users of legitimate copies. Counterfeit copies of our games may degrade and, moral aspects aside, we certainly recommend only playing the original version. We have a free public demo version of Take On Helicopters in the development pipeline for those that prefer to test it before buying.
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I detest this concept so much. Pirates are going to think your game is buggy and neither buy any of your stuff nor recommend it. That's not a good thing. One or two pirates embarrass themselves like the guy on their forum, achieving sod all. Meanwhile, the bugs you didn't intend - and Bohemia Interactive Studios specialise in these - don't get addressed because you're too busy implementing intentional bugs, which may themselves be buggy, resulting in them being triggered incorrectly. Well done, geniuses.
(jimnms, he said he hadn't heard of BIS. That doesn't mean he hadn't heard of their games.) |
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Nov 9, 14:57 |
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Nov 9, 15:32 |
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Nov 9, 15:54 |
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