Re: 'People like to hate EA, I don't know why'

On 23/03/2025 19:00, Zaghadka wrote:

Shit! You guys think Denuvo is bad? The "scene" *exists in the first
place* because C=64 CP was so gobsmackingly outrageous.

I came from Spectrum land and there, as I presume trying to stop people copying tapes was hard, they went down the route of physical things you have to have. Some examples are just typing in certain words from the manual, colour charts (colour photo copiers, not that common) and the most dreaded of all - Lenslock. The was a piece of plastic with a special lens in it that you placed over the screen and then hoped, with as many fingers crossed as you could manage, you could see what you needed to type in to start the game. It was a right PITA as if you actually bought the game then you used this awful method, get a pirate copy and it was likely to be patched out.