Will they Go Over the Top With Antipiracy?

[Strahlemann]

Just imagine if Civ was free to "buy" and free to play, but unit promotions each cost one cent...

I hope that will never happen!!

 

[bonafide11]

As a consumer, you can choose which games you want to buy. If it uses Starforce, which has caused my computer enormous amounts of problems before, don't buy it. Buy games that are not Anti-piracy Nazis (no sorry this isn't a call to debate Hitler!) like Galactic Civ II, which I personally don't enjoy but I have respect for how the company operates and places the consumer first.

 

[Mesousa]

There was a game out once (can't remember the name) that I seriously considered buying until I learned it used Starforce. I'd heard so many bad things about it and the problems it caused on computers, that I didn't buy the game. So yes, you are correct in saying that game sales are affected by the copy protection, at least in my experience.

Starforce ...

http://www.glop.org/starforce/

Here's what Greg Vederman, PC Gamer editor-in-chief, experienced:
[...] StarForce, is notorious for not only making it difficult for a small percentage of legitimate users to load up StarForce-protected games, but also for leaving potentially problem-causing StarForce software behind on your PC, even after you've deleted the game it was protecting. And this isn't just some story that I've read about online or in emails from readers. No, it happened to me.

They have a Starforce removal tool at that site too.

 

[uppi]

My (insert swear word here) Windows and my DVD drive don't like each other and the DVD drive only works very rarely (maybe when there is a full moon? I haven't figured it out yet...). So I have to hold of buying BTS until I am sure I can get it to work without the DVD in the drive