EA does this all the time with their games.

why is Rocksteady gettin this credit?

"ARMA 2 is protected by FADE DRM system developed by Macrovision. Unlike most other protections, FADE won’t throw and error message upon detecting a pirated copy. It will let you play the game normally and you’ll be overjoyed at first thinking that your hack or crack to bypass the protection actually worked. However FADE will disable game features one by one, eventually making it unplayable for the pirates (remember the drunk camera in GTA4?).

This is exactly what’s happening with ARMA2. For the few pirates who actually managed to get the game running (using the leaked image or using a non English copy) FADE is proving to be a tough nut to crack. According to posts on various gaming forums, pirates are experiencing problems with aiming (inaccurate aim/unable to aim left and right), camera issues such as locked or wobbly camera, useless bullets, weak AI, difficulty issues, control issues and so on (well some of these might be actual bugs with the game – there is no way to know).

Currently there is no crack that properly disables the FADE protection. Whatever fixes that are circulating on file sharing networks are either partially working solutions or fakes. Given the time consuming task of identifying and removing FADE triggers one by one, a working crack might not surface for a while anyway."

yep it's not new ... but unlike what the majority seems to think here , it isnt that smart of a move .

I mean in batman it's fun ... but many pirated copy users arent that knowledgable or involved enough to be aware of such things ...

What do you think can happen when a noobs pirate say batman here , experience what he thinks are bugs , and then gossip about it to friends . Said friends that could actually have been potential legit buyers .

Again if not aware or Arma and such means , you'll just assume the game is horribly buggy , and wont think it's because of piracy , but because the game itself is crap , and spread the bad word .

Hey panda, no beef but it's not too long before you get to play Batman: AA huh?

rofl

Yep, a real HD resolution, higher quality textures, higher poly counts in the models and hardcore PhysX physics.

Not to mention it's $10 cheaper.

A three week delay is fine with me.

word PC version FTW!

Hell Yeah

WOuld have been cool if they just disabled Batman's attacks. That way the pirate walks up to a thug and keeps getting punched in the face:)