Anyone familiar with PC gaming knows that the ease of piracy on the platform has skyrocketed the past decade or so, which is a damn shame for both consumers and hard working developers alike.  Although it does warm my cold, black heart to see developers sticking it to piracy enthusiasts in creative ways.  It so happens that Batman: Arkham Asylum uses one of these creative ways.

On a thread in the Eidos forums, a poster named Cheshirec_the_cat made a seemingly normal, shitty grammar laden internet post about some difficulties he was having with his copy of Batman:

Hi!
I’ve got a problem when it’s time to use Batman’s glide in the game. When I hold <Space> , like it’s said to jump from one platform to another, Batman tries to open his wings again and again instead of gliding. So he fels down in a poisoning gas. If somebody could tel me, what should I do there.

To which an Eidos admin responded:

The problem you have encountered is a hook in the copy protection, to catch out people who try and download cracked versions of the game for free.

It’s not a bug in the game’s code, it’s a bug in your moral code.

Never mind that the game isn’t out on PC for another four days!  I feel I must applaud Rocksteady and Eidos on this creative use of copy protection, and while this type of thing is certainly circumvented as we speak, I’m sure it will provide a few laughs at the expense of this douche who had the balls to pirate a game and ask for support for it as well.  Better luck next time!