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minus-squareshalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoDoom 3 did that, first time I had seen it. They want to check if your shit is pirated. For Doom you could drop your local IP and login, no longer.
minus-squareGrntrenchman@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglisharrow-up0·3 months agoThe kicker to this sort of thing, is the pirated versions usually have the checks removed… and don’t need internet.
minus-squareBjörn Tantau@swg-empire.decakelinkfedilinkarrow-up0·3 months agoThank God(ly programmer and patron saint of genius code John Carmack) it was open sourced to get rid of that shit.
Doom 3 did that, first time I had seen it. They want to check if your shit is pirated. For Doom you could drop your local IP and login, no longer.
The kicker to this sort of thing, is the pirated versions usually have the checks removed… and don’t need internet.
Thank God(ly programmer and patron saint of genius code John Carmack) it was open sourced to get rid of that shit.