While other companies decide to cripple their PC games with obnoxious DRM (Digital Rights Management) software to prevent piracy, developer Croteam and publisher Devolver Digital decided to add a special kind of anti-piracy method in their recent Serious Sam 3: BFE, in the form of an unbeatable giant red scorpion beast.
Serious Sam 3 was eagerly awaited by lots of shooter fans and, even if it’s cheaper than most full pledged PC games, it was still pirated by some people.
As such, in order to properly punish those bad guys while not making legal gamers struggle with clumsy DRM, the developer added a special in-game system that, when it detects that the game might not be genuine, spawns an invincible giant red scorpion that follows the player throughout the level and attacks him non stop.
Check out the video above to see the scorpion in action and let’s hope that more and more developers will choose to protect their games by using such great methods, instead of forcing clumsy always-on DRM systems.
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