How the talos principle punishes pirates

[Dohc-WP]

The Talos Principle users who obtain an illegal copy of the PC game are in for a surprising punishment. Users are reporting the game is trapping them in an elevator with no way out, according to the game’s Steam forum.

It turns out it isn’t a bug, but rather developer Croteam’s anti-piracy measure that also reportedly includes missing voice-overs and subtitles. The Talos Principle publisher Devolver Digital tweeted about the Steam discussion, acknowledging Croteam's ploy.

Croteam is no stranger to employing anti-piracy tactics. Pirated copies of Serious Sam 3: BFE included an immortal red scorpion that would kill players repeatedly.

Most recently, players of Ubisoft Montreal's Far Cry 4 accidentally revealed they pirated copies of the game when the title's director Alex Hutchinson revealed missing features of the game were anti-piracy measures. For other examples of clever DRM tactics, check out IGN’s eight most hilarious anti-piracy measures in video games.

The Talos Principle released on December 11 on Steam, and is coming to PlayStation 4 sometime in 2015. IGN's review for The Talos Principle praises the game for its "strong puzzle elements" and "heady philosophy."

Source: IGN

[B1nary]

I love this kind of thing, My favorite is still the giant immortal scorpion from serious sam

[Ser_Bunnylot]

A good way to combat piracy. Legitimate users aren't affected at all. Developers just need to keep putting stuff in, and not leaving it at one piracy-bug. It's easy to fix with a patch, but if you need to get 10 of them per game it's going to get too bothersome to pirate

[AlphaJohn]

A good way to combat piracy. Legitimate users aren't affected at all.

Agreed, I would pick this over useless DRM any day, even when I use to pirate games. Hell DRM use to force me to pirate as some (Read all) normally did not play nice with Wine/Linux. I had to download cracks just so I could play my legitimate games.

[XBearer_ZA]

I recently pirated a game to see "if it is truly worth buying"
After playing a few hours, the game went on special on Origin and I bought it promptly.
Won't look back, pity most games don't offer a fully fledged "Trial Version" anymore