Dogfather
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Laguna Hills, CA | reply to SSX4life
Re: Treating customers like pirates
The thing is this stuff won't even be a speed bump for the pirates. |
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Camelot One
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| said by Dogfather  :The thing is this stuff won't even be a speed bump for the pirates. Exactly, and thats what pisses me off. It does absolutely nothing to actually stop or even slow piracy. But it will create a headache for the people who actually pay for the damn game.
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delt4
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| said by Camelot One :said by Dogfather :The thing is this stuff won't even be a speed bump for the pirates. Exactly, and thats what pisses me off. It does absolutely nothing to actually stop or even slow piracy. But it will create a headache for the people who actually pay for the damn game. Esp the 3 installs.....screw that. I actually pay for my games and if I can only install it 3 times, I'll either not get the game or look for a way around it. |
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Dogfather
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Laguna Hills, CA | Problem is it ends up in shrinkwrap licensing and you end up fighting the store to take it back plus gas at $4 a gallon. |
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AnonShawUser
join:2006-06-17
Calgary, AB
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Actually, the secondary effect will do a LOT to slow down piracy. They're removing the requirement of a CD check from both games, which means there won't be any readily accessable no-cd cracks. As I've seen, there aren't really a lot of groups out there that will actually bother with big cracks if there's no need to make a no-cd. That means that when they update the game, the users may well be left screwed if they didn't pay for it. |
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Camelot One
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| Right, because there are so many titles out there that haven't been cracked.
It will be cracked for no other reason than that it is a new challenge. And then it will be downloaded for free by both those who don't want to pay for it, and those who might have bought the game but don't want to deal with this crap.
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