{"id":4402,"date":"2009-09-08T10:13:00","date_gmt":"2009-09-08T08:13:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"batman-arkham-asylum-designed-to-inconvenience-pirates","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/4402-batman-arkham-asylum-designed-to-inconvenience-pirates","title":{"rendered":"Batman: Arkham Asylum designed to inconvenience pirates"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Eidos, developers of recently released Batman: Arkham Asylum, appear to have laid a trap for gaming pirates within the game&rsquo;s structure.<\/p>\n<p>According to one user on the <a href=\"http:\/\/gamerlimit.com\/2009\/09\/eidos-puts-pirates-in-the-asylum\/\">Gamer Limit<\/a> forum, the vital glide function is disabled when a player is not running a legitimate version of the game:<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;I&rsquo;ve got a problem when it&rsquo;s time to use Batman&rsquo;s glide in the game. When I hold , like it&rsquo;s said to jump from one platform to another, Batman tries to open his wings again and again instead of gliding. So he fels down in a poisoning gas. If somebody could tell me, what should I do there.&rdquo; said the forum user.<\/p>\n<p>Shortly thereafter an Eidos representative responded to the query.<\/p>\n<p>&ldquo;The problem you have encountered is a hook in the copy protection, to catch out people who try and download cracked versions of the game for free. It&rsquo;s not a bug in the game&rsquo;s code; it&rsquo;s a bug in your moral code.&rdquo;<\/p>\n<p>Arkham Asylum was released to Xbox 360 and PS3 in late August and has since gathered favourable reviews. It will be released on PC in mid September.<\/p>\n<p>Discuss <a href=\"http:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php?t=2546\">Batman: Arkham Asylum anti piracy measures<\/a> in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Pirated versions will not allow players to use the &#039;glide&#039; function<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":143,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4402","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4402","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\/143"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4402"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4402\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4402"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4402"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4402"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}