Anti piracy Idea

[Redmoth27]

When I heard that other games like Dev Tycoon have a thing that prevents pirates by making the game unplayable, I thought maybe EOTU could have that.

How about when the pirate pirates the game everything seems normal. He or she starts up the game and plays the first level, its a bit harder than the actual but beatable. Then when you clear the underground and you open the entrance the camera zooms to the queen. Maggots with pirate hats and swords come bursting out of the queen and spread around, the death screen comes up and says, "You Filthy Pirate!"

When you exit the game you're forced to delete it because the delete screen says, "please delete it EOTU because those pirate maggots like you might spread elsewhere."

Please comment on what you think of this post.

 

[MikeSlugDisco]

Haha.

My favourite example of this is actually Serious Sam BFE, when you run into an immortal, super-fast Arachnoid part way through the first level:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=e91q5BtlxK0

Not sure if the guys have anything like this planned but the initial release will be on Steam (but we are still going to be providing DRM free versions of the final game because of our Kickstarter rewards, so piracy is pretty much inevitable).

 

[Serafine]

How about after a while when a player is trying to fight on the surface his ants do a wheel of doom where they loose 1% of their hitpoints per second and slowly walk themselves to death. That would be hilarious ;D
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N0HoqjxfvJ4
I like the idea with the pirate maggots too though.

Another idea would be a parasitic queen entering your colony and you can't attack her because your workers think she's friendly. She will then kill and replace your queen and all your workers defect to her and grow pirate signs on their heads or thorax segments.

Or even nastier, a huge shadow appears on the screen, literally darkening the sky. Then a shiny metal tube gets rammed into the surface exit and all your ants are fumed to death with poisonous gas. Don't forget to add some "arrrrr" sounds.

Or randomly replace parts of the foods in a level with ant bait that causes 1% health loss per second until the workers die after they've eaten from it.

There's so much hilarious possibilities to make people really mad ;D

 

[Planemaster]

Perhaps, when the game is launched and the player clicks any button, this comes up https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=up863eQKGUI&feature=kp

 

[Redmoth27]

Perhaps, when the game is launched and the player clicks any button, this comes up

Yeah but how about that dancing guy is Mike instead