Nice try (email & asking for cd-key)

J Stanley · #1 January 5th, 2004, 08:23 AM

True about the advertising. Thats why I left out his name/email. I thought it was funny. I was thinking maybe it was someone starting a MP game, but no. Just more spam.

Gandalf Parker · #2 January 5th, 2004, 04:22 PM

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an email received by J Stanley:

Send a copy to the Moderators or Richard (with full headers please). We have had a couple of people post here trying basically the same line but the Posts were quickly moved off the public board. It would be nice to know if someone is trying this after being told NO by those in charge.

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Hiya, I was wondering if I could ask a favor. I got this game a while back, and despite its lack of any sort of graphical
candy, I've been having some fun with it.

Sounds familiar so far. Werent we all surprised by this?

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My problem is this, I have friends that come over, and we like to play games over my lan together, the thing is - this game turns out to be a cd-key nazi.

Wow Nazi mentioned in the first post of a thread. Godwin's Law says this is dead already.
http://en2.wikipedia.org/wiki/Godwin's_Law

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Besides that I have a
feeling we will likely only play a few games, and get it out of our system,
and go about normal gaming business

heehee. Anyone want to make bets on this? If you can get past the learning curve I can pretty much gaurantee this game will outlive at least your next 6 purchases IMHO

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We would do hotseat, but that pretty much would double the length of an
already fairly long game.

Oh well. That makes a difference doesnt it? He would use the method provided but doesnt want to.

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If you could do me a favor and just throw me your cd-key it would save us a bit of trouble, and cut our game length in half.

And of course he, and none of his friends, and none of the friends of his friends, would zip it up and load it to some warez site. Your CD key would never end up excluded by the CD check so that all dominions servers refuse to let you play .

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Thanks in advance

Such a polite little pirate. Of course most of them are. Its the second letter that shows their true colors.

To the original email sender. Im sorry, but we LIKE this game. If that statement confuses you then you dont understand what the CD-key is for.

[ January 05, 2004, 14:23: Message edited by: Gandalf Parker ]

Lord Hammer · #3 January 5th, 2004, 11:00 PM

@Gandalf...
It's stuff like this that keeps me from allowing private Messages

. The Atari forums:Temple of Elemental Evil for example:been there lately? Lord Hammer out, a.k.a. Ben Dover!

Dekent · #4 January 6th, 2004, 01:01 AM

Dom2 is a regular find around the warez Groups...

Course it's awful that people are pirating it but....

Hey, that means the general public thinks the game is WORTH pirating, sales on a dominions 3 might be high enough to *gasp* acculy have local stores carry it ;p

Lord Hammer · #5 January 6th, 2004, 01:34 AM

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Originally posted by Dekent:
Hey, that means the general public thinks the game is WORTH pirating

No, it means they don't have lives and are ignorant to the point that it takes talent to make great games such as Dominions 2 and that the people that make such games need money to finance their endeavor, not to mention support themselves and their families!

Gandalf Parker · #6 January 6th, 2004, 02:23 AM

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Originally posted by Dekent:
Dom2 is a regular find around the warez Groups...

Please download it if you find it and let the devs know what the Cd-key is in it.

Dekent · #7 January 6th, 2004, 06:44 AM

I don't think theres anything they COULD do even with the cd keys, companies like blizzard know of 100s of warez cd keys and can't anything other then diable then from working on bnet.

I didn't mean to irritate anyone, I just find it interesting that you NEVER see niche games like dom2 around those places. It just shows that dom2 is that good =)