When Japanese fans were outraged, Baba made multiple contradictory statements trying to explain why it made sense, some of which were perceived as blaming the fans themselves for not understanding the game. Infamously, the character of Alisha Diphda had been very prominently featured in pre-release marketing as the game's Deuteragonist and female lead, but ended up only being a Guest-Star Party Member who left early in the game.

Hideo Baba was the brand manager and series producer of the Tales Series from Tales of Innocence (2007) to Tales of Zestiria (2015), but he's most well-known among franchise fans for mishandling Zestiria and eventually quitting Bandai Namco Entertainment a year after the game's release.

Please do your best to avoid any type of download of the game. I do not want to let you be the next person to experience this. To make sure others do not fall victim to this trojan, People who found out this have been spreading around the web to let those know what can happen once you download the game. These two links will provide what will be executed during the DRM activation: Other links that provide information on the situation: There are many types of videos on youtube talking about the same situation. Here is what his post was.īetter details given by LJSTAR on Discord:Ī video demonstrating this DRM ingame is given by Sina: The maker of the game (claims not to be) has not really shown any type of care for this situation people have fallen victim to even though this would be counted as Illegal.ĮDIT: He took down his post to prevent anyone from seeing what he said. It will also block you from playing the game. The info may also be placed on the cloud afterwards. The game will possibly send the developer personal info, IP address, Internet History, File Info, and PC Info. I do not want others to fall in the same place. I have accidentally experienced this before for myself.

If you use AVG, it will not detect the virus.

Once activated, the virus will be undetectable by some Antivirus software. If you try to stop the DRM while the game is running, it will be impossible and your game will be locked out. The DRM will mostly trigger if the game has caught a player searching for 'cheats', 'hacks', or 'mod' to the game on the internet explorer used or the program called or related to ' Cheat Engine'.

It can possibly be triggered at any given command. However, there is a DRM inside of the game. This fan game is called ' Sonic Gather Battle'. By this I mean that you should not play a certain fan game until it is safe to. The title is saying 'Do not play this game'.

Sonic gather battle without virus