{"id":29191,"date":"2011-12-08T12:12:44","date_gmt":"2011-12-08T10:12:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/?p=29191"},"modified":"2011-12-08T12:47:45","modified_gmt":"2011-12-08T10:47:45","slug":"serious-sam-3s-drm-is-an-invincible-pink-manscorpion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/29191-serious-sam-3s-drm-is-an-invincible-pink-manscorpion","title":{"rendered":"Serious Sam 3&#8217;s DRM is&#8230; an invincible pink manscorpion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Nevermind always-online <a title=\"Term Information\" href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php\/20299-DRM-Digital-Rights-Management\">DRM<\/a>, product key DRM, even codewheel DRM &#8211; the hot new thing in digital rights management is an invincible pink anthropomorphic scorpion that relentlessly pursues the player from the very opening moments of a pirated copy of Serious Sam 3.<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s like your conscience dressed up as a giant arachnid thing, which does seem quite appropriate.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, Pinky the Anti-Piracy Scorpion (as I&#8217;ve decided to call him) will doubtless be patched out of the game shortly enough, which does seem a bit of a shame because I&#8217;d probably consider pirating the game just for one dance with him.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, I&#8217;m sure it&#8217;ll be loads of fun to watch <del>pirates<\/del> hardcore underground gamers complain on internet forums about Serious Sam 3&#8217;s invincible pink anthropomorphic scorpion, and what a huge waste of $60 that game was because it&#8217;s totally broken and how did this get through play-testing anyway.<\/p>\n<h5>Source: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dsogaming.com\/news\/serious-sam-3-bfe-drm-introduces-immortal-scorpion\/\">DSOGaming<\/a><\/h5>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/e91q5BtlxK0?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" width=\"600\" height=\"335\"><\/iframe><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>If you can&#8217;t beat them, be unbeatable too!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":159,"featured_media":29197,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_enabled":true,"_sma_x_custom_text":"","_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2,3],"tags":[1488,41,807,613],"class_list":["post-29191","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-business","category-pc","tag-awesome","tag-drm","tag-pc-gaming","tag-serious-sam-3"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29191","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/159"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29191"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29191\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29195,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29191\/revisions\/29195"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/29197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29191"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29191"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29191"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}