10 Anti-Piracy Measures In Video Games That Were Total Genius

10. SkullGirls Encore - A Fishy Error Message

Skull Girls, aka Waifu Fist-Fight Simulator, is full of particularly crazy fighters, from the cartoon-centric Peacock to Cerebella, the lass with two gigantic arms for hair. It's a pretty barmy fighting game, and a beloved one at that.

Should a naughty player decide to pirate the game, nothing much will happen until they complete it with any character. No matter who it is, or how many times you do it, a cryptic message will pop up which says:

“What is the square root of a fish? Now I'm sad.”

What could this bizarre statement possibly mean? Is it perhaps a post-modern statement that was deliberately written to perhaps provoke thought?

Actually, no. It's a fake error message, meant to catch out clueless pirates into exposing themselves as the shameless thieves that they are.

One player even asked the developers over Twitter about this oddball message. The response was priceless: “Oh that? It means you should probably buy the game instead of pirate it.”

Whoops. To rub vinegar into the wound, it became newsworthy stuff on various gaming websites. The embarrassed fan decided to purchase the game as his way of apologizing.

And all the developers needed to do was to write a silly message regarding seafood.