maybe game companies will now wise up on copy protection...

Post by **Freakaloin** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 4:10 pm

its not needed...only a moron thinks so...

http://www.shacknews.com/docs/press/041006_tes4_sales.x

Post by **plained** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 4:12 pm

i could not believe q4 had that" disk in drive all the time to play"

i stupidly paid for it.

Post by **Grudge** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 4:56 pm

you warezed it geoff, why do you care

Post by **losCHUNK** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 5:00 pm

its true tho

all this copy protection shite lately with the game being on torrent hrs after release

just puts off legitimate buyers

Post by **Pext** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 5:06 pm

there are two possibilities when launching a game:

- starforce
- no copy protection

and even starforce fails on non-laptop systems.

oh... and there is the HL2 method. does anysone know wether it has allready been cracked?

Post by **dzjepp** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 5:08 pm

SF4 will be out soon, and the haxors will be going back to the drawin board.

Post by **Pext** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 5:09 pm

i think the success of oblivion is to a great deal caused by the brilliant internet marketing they had. remember how everyone drooled over the AI while in reality, the AI is far from being spectacular?

Post by **YourGrandpa** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 5:22 pm

Every game will be cracked, there's no way to stop it. The only ways to get people to buy games is,

1. Make a great game that people want to play.
2. Give it a reasonably secure Multiplay interface, like Steam or Punkbuster.
3. Make sure the game is properly supported. ie. patches, updates and expansions.

All this sofware security is a waste of time and money. With the internet the way it is today, hackers and people who use hacked .exe's, ect. have a vast network to share information very quickly. This ultimately results in games being copied and cracked within days of their release.

Post by **PhoeniX** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 5:57 pm

Pext wrote:oh... and there is the HL2 method. does anysone know wether it has allready been cracked?

Yeah, you can simplly copy the decrypted files (which is what steam does) off another PC, or just use a friends steam account to play the game on your computer.

Post by **Tormentius** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 6:18 pm

Pext wrote:i think the success of oblivion is to a great deal caused by the brilliant internet marketing they had. remember how everyone drooled over the AI while in reality, the AI is far from being spectacular?

Its not perfect but its far better than most RPG's AI.

Post by **YourGrandpa** » Mon Apr 10, 2006 6:26 pm

riddla wrote:captain obvious to the rescue

If it's so obvious, explain the resources wasted on shit copy protection every year. Beacuse it's not so obivous to some people if software keeps coming with this crap. Today's internet has made it so easy to steal software, that most types of security are pointless. When all someone has to do is download a hacked .exe to replace the original, the excuse that hacking a game is to complex for the average person is about as vaild as your captain obvious comment.