That lasted what? One week?

Damn... I sank two trawlers last night. Looks like a missed one.

:D :p

I wouldn't take any notice of them dude.

After all the guff about starforce being such a step forward in copy protection, and after thousands of people saying it's messing up their machines and numerous simmers not touching the game because of it.

Without wanting to keep a flame going, i say ... find an alternative.

You can't out do 15 year olds with brains and coffee who simply won't stop cracking protection - Why?
Because they can.

..and bless their little ADD hearts... because of them i'll be able to support the devs (indirectly) by purchasing a product i would not have if things had been left to the publisher.

unfortunately still V1.0

Can i say 'little scumbags' -there i just did!

To all the dysfunctionals out there that don't buy *anything* and think that stealing is ok.

Your a complete waste of DNA

Those crackers are good folks deep down inside. Heck, they always say "If you like it, buy it" in their nfo files . . . or so I've heard. By the way, what's an nfo file? I once heard some old ladies talking about it in line at the supermarket.

What amaze me the most is seeing game developers or publishers still spending money on copy protection...
They could just throw that money out the window, anything is cracked within days of its release nowadays...

I don't understand it either. Who exactly are they trying to prevent from copying their stuff? Casual copiers? Seriously how big of a loss do you think casual copying is?

Like it's that hard to take the cd to a friends house, isntall it and then put a No CD crack on. Anyone smart enough to hit a discussion board on a forum probably easily has enough brains to find a torrent site nowdays or knows where to get no cd cracks. These copy protections, i'll argue time and time again do NOTHING but hurt legit customers. Not just from incompatibilities but also from increased cost of software.

The problem is these starforce buttwipes are in business and in essence are parasites on their own. They use made up figures and statistics to sell a product that doesn't work as advertised and generates tons of support calls and excess costs.

I mean seriously, starforce isn't cheap to implement, not only do they ahve to pay for the "technology" itself, but they also have to pay for the increased support volume caused by all the issues.

I cannot fathom how this makes good business sense to anyone, or is it something else. Are the suits at the game companies that choose to implement this stuff so incredibly out of touch with the modern gamer that they don't realize how easy and widespread no CD cracks and torrent sites are? Maybe they seriously think this stuff works.