MT @ZoeQuinnzel GameMaker's anti piracy deletes assets and activate on paid copies too. Douchey move. [Stencyl is much better and free]
Game Maker's new anti piracy deletes your assets and will activate on paid copies sometimes too. What a douchey move.
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@DoctorMikeReddy I owe stencyl my ability to code in flash.
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@ZoeQuinnzel These recent anti-piracy methods are particularly terrible and not very well thought out. Haven't they heard of Twitter? -
@themayon apparently not. Sheesh.
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@ZoeQuinnzel Now that it's known, the pirates will disable that, too. Protip: Don't make piracy a better experience than legal ownership. -
@awa64 amen to that man.
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@ZoeQuinnzel I'd read they were patching ASAP? DRM that screws paying customers FTL. -
@ScottMacmillan still doesn't help customers whose sprites were permadestroyed though. -
@ZoeQuinnzel Yeah. Hopefully people had backups / version control. :(
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@ZoeQuinnzel Also very likely illegal. -
@edropple woah really? I am actually happy to hear that that kind of thing isn't legal. -
@ZoeQuinnzel I doubt it rises to the level of criminality but there are civil cases of malicious deletion of user data going against the dev
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@ZoeQuinnzel holy shit -
@charlesrandall@ZoeQuinnzel So the people behind Game Maker must have some sort of brain damage, right? -
@celsiusgs@charlesrandall i am hoping for temporary insanity -
@ZoeQuinnzel@charlesrandall FWIW it was apparently a really bad screw-up on their part.https://twitter.com/lordoftheyoyo/status/274653458525724672 …
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@ZoeQuinnzel Whoa, deletes your assets? Hmmm.. lawsuits in 3.. 2...Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@ZoeQuinnzel Yeah we had the software throw pirate skulls all over our sprites. Had to re-implement all of them. And we have legit copies!Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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Thanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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@ZoeQuinnzel Another reason to make your own stuffThanks. Twitter will use this to make your timeline better. UndoUndo
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