CD key violation?!

[thejeff]

I've got no idea how CD-keys get added to the list of bad keys that trigger the piracy protection. But I doubt it's as easy or as automated as "trigger the CD key violation in a mp game and your key gets revoked."

That stops those orders from being used and has been reported here several times but never followed by "and now I can't play at all"

So I wouldn't worry about transferring the game to a different computer, or even installing on another computer for your own use. (The license allows that right? I was using another machine as a server for Dom2 for awhile and playing from my main desktop. I don't think there's a problem with that. Or even having a copy on a laptop, so you can play turns while away from home.)

Now if you give your CD-key away to all your friends and post it on warez sites, that'll get it on the bad list, I'm sure.

[Mindi]

I'm not going to debate copy protection and piracy here. All I will say, is for those of you who think Dom's copy protection is so much more intrusive or strict than other games, you obviously haven't played many games. We actually have a better policy than a lot of games out there (for ex. in general our games are a one player at a time license, not a one computer at a time license), but yes, if you and another person (no matter who it is, spouse or not) want to play simultaneously, then you need to buy two copies.

This is not a new phenomenon folks, Richard got me into playing Diablo 2: Lord of Destruction years ago and when he convinced me to play we bought me a second copy. For those of you unfamiliar, that meant buying two games..Diablo 2 and the add on Lord of Destruction...for each of us. At the time that was about $60-$70 for each of us, which is a large expense but we got hours and hours of enjoyment playing so it was definitely worth it (the ratio of the cost of a movie to the hours of enjoyment compared to the same ration for the game makes the game very very cheap when you think about it). Since then one of our copies of D2 is worthless as we didn't make a back up and a CD got cracked (our fault)....because the online site checks both sets of serials upon installation and compares them to the CDs inserted, we can't use the good copy of D2, even with the valid keycode for the broken CD and then install the second copy of LOD on top of it, so we will be buying a new copy of D2 in order to play again.

Sorry guys, our copy protection is really not over the top at all.