I got the game in the mail today and installed it.
There is, for certain, something wrong with the CD check. My CD runs constantly at high speed at all times as long as the Starfury CD is in the drive. Even when I'm not playing it. It is VERY loud and it cannot be good for the CD drive or the game disk to be constantly reving at high speed. This stinks. I have a rig that is less than 1 year old and have never had anything like this happen. Some of the beta testers said that there was no CD check in the beta so obviously I suspect that this wasn't really tested much.
I was dissapointed (to say the least) to see MM employ a CD check for Starfury. They cause more harm and user grief than good IMHO. I'd hoped MM would avoid this tactic unlike most of the other lemmings in the industry.
Brad Wardell, the founder and CEO of Stardock and designer of Galactic Civilizations, one of the very best 4X space strategy games around, recently wrote a very interesting article in which he argues that using CD protection on games only encourages piracy and that better solutions exist. It's an interesting, thoughful read and I agree with most of it. The link to the article is here on his personal web site and a link to it also can be found on the Galciv site:
http://www.joeuser.com/index.asp?AID=209
I encourage you to read it.
Since Stardock also distributes their games via the Internet like Shrapnel does, I'd be interested to hear what the Shrapnel folks here and Aaron think about his business model and approach regarding this?
And what does everyone else think about this subject?
In the meantime, I'm really
about the CD!
Edited to add: BTW, I'm using WinXP Pro, not ME.
-ColdSteel
[ October 09, 2003, 20:44: Message edited by: ColdSteel ]
StarFury CD check is screwed up!!
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