RE: GTR2 game to launch in summer

[Mr Whippy]

andyf said:

Get rid of Starforce and I'll actually consider buying it. I'm somewhat unhappy I never got to play GTR - it looked a lot of fun - but I won't run it because the copy protection is anti-consumer, and I don't want to have to have a CD/DVD in the drive to play a game. This is a PC, not a ruddy console.

I agree, if you get the game on the sly then you can just run it when you like, no codes, no cd in drive, can do what the heck you like.

Go out and support the developer and publisher by buying the game, and you get burdened with the assumption that you'll be copying it and lending it to all your mates, you'll have to have codes, cd in the drive, you name it, you'll have all the mashings to prove you own the game.

So it seems go legitimate and suffer, or just get a copy and have the flexibility a buying consumer should get.

This has been my gripe for years. I usually buy the games and then CD crack them so I can just store the disc safely and not have to listen to my drive spinning up and whining like mad.
Shame that these new "anti-piracy" schemes only seem to effect the buying customers, with SCSI drives you simply can't run the new breed of games as they "assume" that you are running an image mount software etc...

They are fighting a loosing game trying to protect the games imho. Someone WILL crack them in a few days, and those who want a copy WILL get a copy, so why bother ruining the game for paying customers?

Dave

[TonyToniTone]

You could buy game and mount it using Deamon tools.. not starforce installed..

[D_Mike]

The best solution is to have a game with a unique online user code... like GTL does.. so if you crack it you can't play online and so lose a big part of the appeal of the game.

[UncleDave]

Exactly...

I think they have gone too far with protection.. Starforce, CD key, Online key... Come on a bit over the top!
But it does work well! So can't see them changing. It'd be interesting to see how much legal sales of a similar new game dropped (or increased) if they removed the starforce..

Dave.

[TonyToniTone]

www.blimeygames.com/gtr2_screens.php

Looks pretty good.

[rebelstar]

I dread to think what the system requirements for this are going to be... time for another new PC?