10 Video Games That Wanted You To Delete Them

10. Every Game That Knows You Stole It

I'll go out on a limb and say game developers would probably prefer you don't pirate their games. Unfortunately, there's not much devs can do to stop pirates torrenting their carefully crafted creations.

Or is there?

Developers have come up with a few quirky ways to "encourage" pirates to delete their stolen good. In Game Dev Tycoon, pirates will ironically find that the games they create in the game get pirated, making their own game companies go bust.

The Sims 4 modestly pixelates Sims in the bath and shower. For pirates, those pixels expand to the entire screen, making it look like they're squinting through the frosted plexiglass of a prison cell (where those dirty cheaters belong).

Mirror's Edge will troll pirates by slowing them down on the first jump, blocking off the rest of the game as they fall to their death. The caped crusader in the pirated Arkham Asylum shares a similar fate as his gliding bat-wings will refurl at the most inopportune moments.

The best thing about these pirated games is that these annoyed thieves will take to forums to find fixes for their glitches, only to realise they've outed themselves to the entire internet.

Don't pirate games, kids.