SEV: What am I REALY getting for my money?

frightlever · #1 August 15th, 2006, 09:54 AM

To quote myself "I think people willing to pay will pay and those who can't, or won't, won't pay no matter what." which just agrees with you that copy protection or lack therof hasn't got a bearing on whether a game will sell. If you're going to buy it you'll buy it. If you're not then there are plenty of excuses to make to yourself why not.

I'm amazed at the way forums have been taken over by anti-Starforce sentiment in the last year or so. There are plenty of good reasons why I may not buy Space Empires 5 but copy protection definitely isn't one of them. I'll likely pre-order a physical copy and then crack on release day and buy the download too. I ended up buying 3 copies of Silent Storm because I liked it so much I just wanted to spread the word.

As for Steam, which I never really touched on, if you want to play a MP game you need to validate through Steam but if you're playing a MP game you're probably either already on the Internet or on a LAN and if you're on a LAN in the 21st century I can't believe there are too many times you won't have some Internet access.

Again I want to stress I'd prefer it wasn't the case but OTOH I'm not that worried about it. Your life must be pretty sweet if you consider this a hardship. Running a house and holding down a job (to spend on food and games) give me more than enough grief for me to worry about copy-protection.

Phoenix-D · #2 August 15th, 2006, 11:37 AM

You have to validate SP games as well frightlever. And I'm not keen on spending money on a game only to have it turn into a coaster a few years down the road. Starforce is unlikely to work when you upgrade your OS, for example.

And that's not even counting its tendancy to kill CD drives, the scummy tactics of the people that make it, etc.

Fyron · #3 August 15th, 2006, 02:37 PM

I'm amazed at the way forums have been taken over by anti-Starforce sentiment in the last year or so.

Its not just these forums, it is the entire Internet and gaming community in general. Starforce is horrible, horrible malware that does nothing but harm. It is only natural for the hate to show here too.