Will not buy due to StarForce

[MARIAN]

a patch will remove all protections from XIII Century

[Wellington]

That is good news! Will I then be able to install the game WITHOUT any components of Starforce also being installed to my system? That is the most critical aspect.

[Joker]

That's actually a great question, seeing as Ive bought it online, once installed, it will have to install StarForce, will the patch then deinstall EVERYTHING related towards StarForce ?

[MARIAN]

As far as I know in the games where protection is the game is normally instal on a hard disk, and then that starting game is necessary install libraries of protection. Here probably you simply install the game, you renounce install of libraries of protection but install patch which allows you to play without a disk.

[Wellington]

So you are saying that when you install the game

(1) you are asked if you want to install Starforce separately and optionally from the game itself (that is, the game can be installed without also installing Starforce)

and

(2) if you decline to install Starforce no components at all of it will be installed?


Let's be extremely clear about this because it is very important.

[Wellington]

I take the lack of replies to indicate that regardless of patches etc Starforce will be installed along with the initial install of the game. Thus, I will not purchase this game, much less install it, and I will advice vocally against purchasing it, as I do against any game with intrusive DRM like Starforce or SecuROM.

You should have learnt a lesson from Spore and Amazon.

[mitra]

You are free to no purchase the game, but avoid to make the moral lesson. For starforce exist external removal tools, so it is not necessary to have confirm for the patch. If you want to be sure then purchase and download the game from gamersgate which not use starforce protection.