Bug: Blank Map

Mindi · #1 April 10th, 2007, 10:03 AM

Goodbye Locus, we do not support pirates.

Sombre · #2 April 10th, 2007, 11:03 AM

Is he necessarily a pirate? I mean if your friend gives you a CD key and you use it rather than him it's ok, no?

Incidentally, how would his friend's CD key be revoked? It's not like the game knows who is using it.

thejeff · #3 April 10th, 2007, 11:25 AM

Especially since there have been reports of legitimate keys triggering the problem.

Reverend Zombie · #4 April 10th, 2007, 11:30 AM

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Sombre said:

Incidentally, how would his friend's CD key be revoked? It's not like the game knows who is using it.

Didn't DOMII check with a Shrapnel server over the Internet for "bad" keys?

The question then might be how is "bad" key determined.

Same key from different IPs? That might cause trouble for those with dynamic IPs, no?

Gandalf Parker · #5 April 10th, 2007, 11:56 AM

We will not be discussing in public the mechanics of how keys get busted. I will say that it is a seperate issue than the in-game key errors happening to hosts at the moment.

Reverend Zombie · #6 April 10th, 2007, 12:24 PM

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Gandalf Parker said:
We will not be discussing in public the mechanics of how keys get busted. I will say that it is a seperate issue than the in-game key errors happening to hosts at the moment.

Okay.

Mindi · #7 April 10th, 2007, 01:22 PM

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Sombre said:
Is he necessarily a pirate?

If he had his own key, he wouldn't be using his friend's key to bypass the copy protection. Since you can't have the game on computers owned by different people at the same time (it's not a one computer license, but it IS a one owner at a time license), then the game would have had to have been given to him and therefore the game would be HIS not his friends, which he readily admits. Look, he's brand new to the board and these are his ownly two posts and he gave as minimal info as he had to in signing up for the board. Look, if it looks like a duck, quacks like a duck and walks like a duck; than it's a duck.

As I posted earlier, if someone is having a problem and has a legitimate key, then they should contact customer support. Otherwise, I have to assume that when you say you use your friend's key to bypass copy protection that you are pirating the game.

Case closed.