The Sims 4 has a curious anti-piracy system. The series has always ‘pixelated’ Sims when they are naked, but if you play a pirated version of The Sims 4, the censored pixelated characters will stay pixelated once they put their clothes back on.
The pixelation will then spread across the game until the whole screen is blurred, making it unplayable. Players started reporting this as a bug, but actually it only appears in pirated copies of the game, so anyone who complains is revealing themselves as a pirate!
As you can see in the header image, the pixelated version of the Sims 4 is actually quite pretty, but you’ll miss out on all the emotional expression that the new Sims can display.
The Sims 4 is not the first game to implement unusual anti-piracy measures. In 1993’s Strike Commander, if you played a pirated copy, your allies in the game would start treating you like the enemy. Another EA game, Mirror’s Edge, would slow down the action just as you were about to make a jump, ruining a game where timing is everything. Rockstar’s GTA IV took an alternative approach, making the in-game camera wobble around as if you were drunk.
Our full review of The Sims 4 will be live after the weekend.
Source: PlayerAttack
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