Players who downloaded the illegal version of Talos Principle, can not pass the game because of the intentional "bug"

The developers of the game The Talos Principle , the company Croteam, took a not quite standard way to protect against the illegal distribution of their offspring. Instead of swearing at launch, the game starts and goes normally, but only until one of the game moments when the character is in the elevator. Then move on the plot can not.




Many players on the forums started complaining about this “bug”, after which it turned out that this was even a “feature”. On the Neogaf forum, the secret was revealed . Game sending even includes mention of the famous pirate group SKIDROW.
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The unusual defense had the desired effect - some interested in the continuation of the "pirates" decided to buy an official version of the game to find out what will happen next. One anonymous member of a famous tracker wrote: “I ran into a broken elevator bug, and I bought a full version of the game in Steam, where I could import my saved game. It was worth the money. ”

Talos Principle is a philosophical first-person puzzle game where the player finds himself on the site of a rational robot. Developers from Croteam are not the first to come up with creative ways to protect their games from being copied. Three years ago, in a pirated copy of the game Serious Sam, you could meet with an unkillable scorpion .