Starforce Activation Blight

[subjugator]

I will start by saying that I am a huge fan of the remade King's Bounty series, owning King's Bounty Legend, King's Bounty Armored Princess and King's Bounty Crosswords GOTY (just got it today, imported it into Canada from the US)

The games are amazing, but the online Starforce activation is not. Come on guys, you should know better than to penalize legitimate users with limited number of activation/deactivations, whereas pirated versions are free from any such hassles. Having installed the legitimate copy of the game I had to resort to downloading SKIDROW no-cd patch and copying it over my "legitimate" executable as I will not stand for limited number of install/uninstalls attempt in a product I have legitimately purchased.

1C/Katauri - being from Russia (as I originally am) you guys should know that these stupid Starforce schemes do squat all to protect your game from being pirated but upset and penalize legitimate users who actually paid for it. Take a good look at Heroes of Might and Magic Tribes of the East release that came with no copy protection AT ALL! Did it fail to sell? - No! Did most of the fans not buy it and pirate it instead (myself included) - No ! So what gives?

I really wanted to support the company and its wonderful games and I made a point of buying all the boxed originals, but these shitfaced activation schemes will make me think twice in the future.

Please - rethink your strategy going forward.