Is that meta? I don’t know what meta means, but I think that’s meta. (I dropped out of being a cool internet type around the time hashtags came into being…sigh…)
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Remember ARMA2 had FADE? LOL…I never knew if that was real or not since I bought the game. Wiki says it is used in A3 too…interesting…
Yeah, the seagull or something. That’s sort of another example where it probably felt pretty good for the developers to put in, but then I remember reading about it more in the case where people that did purchase would turn into a bird and then lost game access and got pretty confused. Other sims would do stuff like invert control surfaces and stuff. It’s pretty funny, but if it annoys 99 pirates and then 1 paying customers it’s sort of a weird risk to take - the punitive stuff must be pretty tempting though.
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Codemasters (original publishers for Operation Flashpoint) had something like that for some of their Colin McRae rally titles. Cars would begin to handle impossibly or th e CPU opponents would be so fast it was clearly impossible.
I still remember the original copy protection (or…well, one of the earlier ones) - remember in Red Storm Rising you had to match the type of ship/sub from the manual page.
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There were quite a few games i remember where you had to answer a question that referenced the manual, I think the Police Quest series had something like that.
LOL…Reddit is just blowing up over this…
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So emailing them asking for my forgotten facebook password would be a bad idea? I mean, if we all used a bad serial number then it’s a form of password back-up service, right - a cheap cloud service? 
For the memes/reddit, you could power a country with the faux-outrage around things like DRM. People love waving their southern belle fans, with an indignant belief it’s ‘all about the principal of the thing, good sir!’. It’s why the other side of the highway slows down to see a car wreck - gotta get in on that action…
Hilarious!!! 
LOL. Indeed. I haven’t bought it…so I have no feeling of outrage really…more like amusement that a developer thought it was a good idea.
Honestly, at this point the value of a 100% mea-culpa, from the heart apology would go a long, long way. People would be surprised at how far an honest apology will go. Nuts that it wasn’t the first thing out of the developer’s mouth within an hour or so of that breaking.
You are going to have to include that ECAM message in your FSLabs A320 Guide if you ever do one… 
I think they probably staff their PR department like they staff their Legal department. Getting ahead of the stampede with a ‘we dun goofed’ would have helped, but it’s got a momentum all of its own now. 
Also, the early advice their support people were giving out to customers who said the installer was flagging that malware was included, and their advice was ‘turn off your AV util’.
Not really a false positive. 
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It’s tempting, I’ll give you that… I’m literally two clicks away from editing that page For accuracy… and science… and stuff…
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Dude? Two week ban, not reading own website.
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Haha…that’s funny. For some reason I thought that was an X-Plane Airbus you did…(brain fart on me)…
I don’t even pay the bills anymore. I’m like the guy in the basement with the stapler in Office Space…things just have their own momentum now… 
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@Chris Bwa ha ha ha!
@Froggie
Err… better delete that chemtrails tinfoil hat theory with dancing furries page before he notices it…
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I was wondering why my Amazon hosting costs were creeping up. That must be a popular sub-section…
We could pay for them with FSLabs adverts! 
Of course, they might just log into your paypal and transfer the money back using your userid/password, so it’s not a fool-proof plan.
I’ve turned down soooooooo many advertising requests from Nigeria. Who knew that they were so interested in our content? 