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Default  Square Enix Battle Game Pirates
03.13.08, 19:27:16
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Taken from front page: http://www.ffrepublic.com/news/squar...me-Pirates-565

Pirated copies of the new Final Fantasy Crystal Chronicles game, Ring of Fates, have a special message contained within the flashcart version that somehow found their way online:

"Thank you for playing!"

However, when the message appears (at random) it would not allow any furthur play. It seems to be a detection system that have left people wondering why other companies havent implented the system.

Square Enix seem to be giving people a chance to play the game first, then cutting short the gaming experience in order to get people to buy the product.

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Default  03.13.08, 20:55:01
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That'll prolly get hacked within the next month or two.
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Default  03.13.08, 21:53:51
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You are quite right.

Plus if they did something like this- why give the chance to play? Do they think someone will have a change of heart and go out and buy the game?

Its like a slap from SE, but very softly.
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Default  03.13.08, 22:10:12
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That'll prolly get hacked within the next month or two.
The first month of a game's release is probably the most important.

If you haven't caught the customers by then, you likely never will.

Knock off effect being they'll get more sales. For a while, at least.
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Default  03.14.08, 07:43:36
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It's like piracy doing them a faavour for marketing... like when the beginning FMV for FFX and FFVII were released before the game, or even crisis cores one.

That really whetted gaming appetite.
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