Biggest threat to the SOW series

brando · #1 03-04-2008, 10:45 PM

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Originally Posted by BadAim

Bollox. A thief is a thief.

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Spinnetti · #2 03-05-2008, 01:31 AM

I bought the original IL2 and every expansion and version including 1946. I also use the DVD crack, because I play the game a lot and HATE having to have the CD in. When you can pirate a game easier than run in legitimately, you are asking for trouble. When I bought the original Unreal Tournament, the copy protection wouldn't let the cd drive read the disk, and the store wouldn't take it back. My only recourse? - a "pirate" version, but since I bought it it wasn't really pirated - just a countermeasure for a stupid protection attempt. No matter what the method, there is always a crack practically the second a game comes out. If you deliver enough value, people will buy it, just like I bought all the IL2 stuff! BTW, Theatre of War is cracked, though not like I would use or condone that.

nearmiss · #3 03-05-2008, 02:05 AM

Starforce and that kinda stuff is bad. I'm not a security expert, so I wouldn't know where to start to protect software.

I do know I didn't buy PE-2 because of Starforce, and I've never bought anything LockON after the first release.

I don't have alot of time for IL2 or anything else for that matter anymore. So I want no problems with a software I buy. So, if any possibilities for problems exist... I don't go there.

352nd Persecutor · #4 03-05-2008, 03:44 AM

I voted in that poll. I'm an honest citizen. I own FOUR copies of IL2, from the very first version to the latest 1946 DVD. And I have always used a no-CD crack. On every game and every piece of software I own. And I've got a lot of software (including both Titan Quest and Immortal Throne).

I resent the implication of software houses that purchasers of their software are "dishonest" and must be "disciplined" by copy protection schemes. I'll go out of my way to defeat every one of them on software I've purchased, as a matter of principle, self-defense, and independence. I've felt that way from the first copy of dBase I ever bought to the present time, and that opinion is not likely to change.

I don't fly Lock-On, although I own a copy of it. Secure-ROM will never be on my system (it's MY system and I get to make the rules!). Likewise several shooters I have purchased that I will not play.

So be it.

Bring on SOW. I'll purchase and fly it too, and I'll search out and find a No-CD crack and use it. Unless it is protected by Secure-ROM or a clone. If so, it's "bye-bye", regardless of how much fun it might be.