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minus-square@shalafi@lemmy.worldlinkfedilinkEnglish0•1 year 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-squareBjörn Tantaulinkfedilink0•1 year agoThank God(ly programmer and patron saint of genius code John Carmack) it was open sourced to get rid of that shit.
minus-square@Grntrenchman@sh.itjust.workslinkfedilinkEnglish0•1 year agoThe kicker to this sort of thing, is the pirated versions usually have the checks removed… and don’t need internet.
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.
Thank God(ly programmer and patron saint of genius code John Carmack) it was open sourced to get rid of that shit.
The kicker to this sort of thing, is the pirated versions usually have the checks removed… and don’t need internet.