Deus Ex: The Fall disables firing on jailbroken devices

Ugh, why had this been not enabled in the first place? o.0

If you are needing to Jail break your phone/table maybe you are buying the wrong phone/tablet.

no way am I defending Square here either.

@mrboone01 @deathstream No need to be so aggressive, especially when you're wrong.

You're confusing jailbreaking with unlocking a phone. Unlocking a phone allows you to use it on different carriers.

Jailbreaking is done for a number of reasons. But the number one reason it is done is for piracy, because it allows you to bypass Apple's App store and download pirate versions of software.

Apple contacted square enix and informed them that they do not have the jurisdiction to cease function of jail-broken devices without a disclaimer.

So they updated the appstore description with this

"THE DEUS EX EXPERIENCE IS CURRENTLY RESTRICTED ON JAILBROKEN DEVICES. DO NOT PURCHASE IF YOU HAVE VOIDED YOUR WARRANTY AND HAVE JAILBROKEN YOUR DEVICE!"

Wow what a bunch of snobby pricks! What right does square enix have saying that their product will not work if you have voided your APPLE warranty.. This is another BAD MOVE by square enix because now they are trying to make it seem like apple's terms and agreement's have something to do with this. I will be happy to see apple crush square enix!

So from what i read in this update, is that they indeed intend to continue not supporting "jailbroken devices" in the future, but will be more clear about it.

way to discourage sales.

This whole 'jailbreaking' thing is just another form of half-assery it seems. These phone makers won't make some form of piracy protection that makes sense, instead they'll turn it into one big headache.

And it's good, but simultaneously bad, that SE is fixing this problem. It'll be good for people who can't play the game because they switched service providers or something, but bad for people who pretty much abuse the company by pirating stuff.

The whole deal isn't really win-win any way you look at it. And the games still aren't as good as anything you'd find on a true gaming device.

Just another reason not to support 'smart' phones, wireless phone companies and mobile/casual gaming.

@mrboone01 @deathstream "Get a fucking clue. "Jailbreaking" a phone is not for "piracy". "Jailbreaking" a phone is so you can use the phone on a carrier other than the one that you originally got it from." actually that part is not legal. Jailbreaking it to remove other restrictions are fine but removing a carrier lock is illegal.

and in other news:

FF Tactics restrict jailbreak players by only allowing characters to move 2 directions on the field.

FF 1-4 - The only spell you can cast is fire 1.

Chaos Rings - The 2 characters in each team attack each other.

if you buy an iPhone, you probably should be DRM'd all to hell.

"DRM only effects pirates!"

said no one ever

@mrboone01

Of course it is their worry. People jailbreak to pirate software.

I was going to get this game just to support SE's defense of their IP, then they reversed course. Glad I didn't.

Look at the overwhelming amount of pirates complaining about this in the comment section below.

What the hell is a legally jailbroken device? I thought the only reason for jailbreaking was for piracy

This title is a WASTE for the Deus Ex gaming world....
Instead of creating a new PC game they created this ugly IOS crap that only the 1% of the planet population is going to play with it....Stupid move EIDOS

Why does it matter? The jail broken restriction is just silly.

Not that I would play it on a tablet or a phone. The non anti-aliasing pixels are hurting my eyes.

Square Enix really likes dropping the ball on these digital releases from the West.

You just had the Tomb Raider digital release screw up with the always online BS being false not even that long ago, now you have this douchebag move passing through QA somehow.

Someone should be getting fired or moved away from the digital distribution group since they clearly more interested in trolling their would be customers, instead of doing things to get customers by improving the digital distribution brand's image.

why do people care its some shitty mobile game

This cannot be legal, can it?!

The weirdest part of this whole thing is that jailbreaking devices is legal, it just voids whatever warranty the manufacturers put on them at the manufacturer's discretion. SE was punishing people who did something completely legal.

This makes me laugh. DRM and restrictive crap like this only ever punishes legit users. Pirates and hackers alike always find a way around these measures and they always will.

What if consumers had the power to do that to those who give us gaming content?

EA is gonna update and allow a new crappy, half finished, money-grabbing DLC to be downloaded.. Then this appears on their screen and they can't upload it to the stream. "WE ARE SORRY BUT WE DON'T WANT BULLSHIT."

My response to update: People like to be able to play the game they bought? Our bad. We just want to limit those filthy pirates because you know only pirates jail break their devices, right?

Whoops.

wow, this literally ONLY affects the paying customers (with jailbroken iphones ofc) cause the pirated version of this game will most likely have a workaround and thus square enix is basically shooting itself in both feet