Ubisoft, who have a reputation for implementing extremely intrusive and annoying DRM into their games, have played a nice trick on people which has revealed who has pirated Far Cry 4.
Ubisoft, who have a reputation for implementing extremely intrusive and annoying DRM into their games, have played a nice trick on people which has revealed who has pirated Far Cry 4.
DRM has become increasingly popular as a method to stop people playing a game without paying for it. Unfortunately some DRM is intrusive while others, such as this method is just plain funny.
If you have pirated Far Cry 4 on PC you may find that there is no Field Of View options and that the game is locked at a narrow FOV. Narrow FOVs in games can make some gamers experience motion sickness and a locked FOV is becoming increasingly unpopular amongst the PC gaming community. So, if you took to a forum to complain about the lack of FOV options then we would advise you remove those posts (if you can) because you have outed yourself as a pirate.
This is confirmed by Ubisoft Montreal’s creative director Alex Hutchinson who said this on twitter
PC players! If you’re online complaining about the lack of FOV control … You pirated the game.
— Alex Hutchinson (@BangBangClick) November 18, 2014It may still be possible that you have bought the game and don’t have an FOV slider because the option was introduced in a patch for the retail release. If this does apply then go online, update your game and enjoy. If this doesn’t apply and you did pirate it… well… shame on you!
