10 Video Games That Knew What You Were Doing

10. Pirates Can't Perform Jumps - Mirror's Edge

There's nothing you can do to piss a video game developer off more than pirate their game. Cheat and troll all you like, but at least you've given them your hard-earned dough for the privilege, right?

But with video game piracy potentially impacting sales, developers have come up with creative ways to get their own back on the pirates and, above all else, make them aware that they know exactly what they're doing.

A great example is the original 2008 version of Mirror's Edge. The innovative action-platformer was centered around players performing parkour-like acrobatic manoeuvres to leap between rooftops and maintain their momentum.

However, those who played a pirate copy of the game would get a nasty surprise right out of the gate - any time they tried to take a running jump off a roof, the game would slow down to a halt.

If you kept trying to jump regardless, you would simply fall off the edge and die, giving you a Game Over.

Basically, it prevented you from progressing through the game, trapping you in the opening segment in the hope that you'd actually just give up and splash some cash on the real deal.