SEIV Only A Nitch Game

Phoenix-D · #1 March 25th, 2004, 12:21 AM

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Originally posted by Ragnarok-X:
Keep in mind this game was not buyable in a normal shop like MoO 3 und GalCiv was. In addition this game is going warez since the release, i remember it was downloaded thousands of times through networks like sharereactor. And it didnt even had ONE copy protection.

Which matters not a whit because copy protection is easily broken. As of right now all it does is inconvience the end user, many of whom go to sites to find cracks for their legitimately bought games.

Some of them have no option; protection can render a game unplayable. And of course since these cracks are out there the games are still pirated. SE Starfury has a CD check for example, but I play it and have not had the CD in my drive since install.

Suicide Junkie · #2 March 25th, 2004, 12:44 AM

As I recall, the CD check was dropped in the latest SF patch.

Atrocities · #3 March 25th, 2004, 12:49 AM

What killed Tribes 2 was the crappy way they had there patch system designed to operate. The other thing that killed tribes 2 was that there copy protection actually worked and many hackers and pirates could not play. Ohhh to bad. By the time the hacks came out, the game had lost its novelity.

Half-life = Most pirated game ever made.

I favor copy protection, smart copy protection.

Phoenix-D · #4 March 25th, 2004, 12:49 AM

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Originally posted by Suicide Junkie:
As I recall, the CD check was dropped in the latest SF patch.

Apparently so. Doesn't change the point, though. (I was doing the same with 1.00 and 1.08)

Paul1980au · #5 March 25th, 2004, 12:57 AM

Copy protection should be a component to any game - nullifies pirate activity. In terms of SE5 adn SE4 i do my best to promote it on different forums i visit - hoping it sells a few games.

Phoenix-D · #6 March 25th, 2004, 02:03 AM

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Originally posted by Paul1980au:
Copy protection should be a component to any game - nullifies pirate activity.

As I just got through pointing out..no, it doesn't. There is not a game on my hard drive or in my collection that hasn't been cracked.

Fyron · #7 March 25th, 2004, 04:22 AM

Copy protection actually increases piracy to some degree, as it creates an artificial challenge to break the protection...

Every copy protection scheme ever devised has been broken. Only with company-owned multiplayer servers can CD keys actually have any chance of keeping pirates off of the servers. But the game can still be pirated, and will be. Just not for use on official servers.

[ March 25, 2004, 02:23: Message edited by: Imperator Fyron ]