I HAVE BOUGHT IT- you want me to give you the picture of myself with the game ?

it is my right not to have to plug my DVD in each time i want to play-

This kind of protection only bother honest people that buy the game, and want to play freely, without having to use DVD or hardware check each time they play..

Crack junkie will never be bothered by any kind of protection.. because on their version it has no such thing.

Grow up mate.. when 10 people work on a prtection to bother honest people, 10000 people try to crack it-

Number of illegal downloads can be tracked. This number is used to justify increasing copy protection invasiveness. Number of illegal downloads that later become sales cannot be tracked. So go ahead and download it, you'll just be pushing us one step closer to something even worse the Starforce.

I didnt download my game. I bought it-

You guys are confusing illegal downloads of the game with applications of the nodvd crack patched to a legally gained copy of the game.

Two different things.

I don't have much of a stance on the issue either way. Other than wishing i didn't have to deal with annoying copyright protection.

The fact remains, i have no ill-begotten games on my hard-drive, but EVERY game on my hard-drive has a nocd crack if it requires a cd... I just don't have the ability to easily swap cd's... some are gone forever and without the cracks i couldn't play the games i paid for.

Looks around >>>>>> Hmmmmm Is this the Flame board,,,,,,, Nope. I detect allot of hot tempers here. Let us not turn this form into anouther SimHQ form I can think about.

I can stand a certain amount of hassle with copy protection.. but this one is very nasty...

Sometimes if I don't get a good connect to the internet my computer just hangs for about five minutes.. even CTL ALT DEL doesn't work...

If man made it, it can be broken. Puts

I haven't had any problems with SH3 and Starforce. Come to think of it, I didn't have any problems with Steam and HL2.

I must be an enigma. Maybe I should sell my computer to NSA so they can figure out what makes it tick.

Strangely, I do not feel that my virtue is being violated when I see the "Checking DVD" message that flashes on my screen for 3 or 4 seconds out of the two minutes it takes to load the program and a saved campaign.

Serious compatibility issues between Starforce and computer systems is one thing, but if you just can't be bothered with putting a DVD in the tray... how do you watch movies?

I emailed Merlin the link to the no DVD crack and not the full game. There is nothing wrong with using nocd/ncodvd cracks. And just to go on record: I don't even have SHIII on my machine as I haven't been able to find it in my local store yet. But when I do I will be playing it with no DVD in the drive too as I do many of my games. I started this thread as a public service announcement and to just show how futile Starforce really is. All Starforce has done is cause grievance to the legit consumer. End of story.

Well now that theres a way around this Starforce thing, I will buy it. So much for the piracy arguement.

J