It's really fucking sad when PAYING CUSTOMERS have to crack these games in order to play them.
I had to pirate a game that 'I purchased' in order for it to even work reliably.
Copyright protection on games is just going to alienate paying customers, eventually everyone will say screw it and just flat out pirate games, because its the only way they will work.
/rant
Gabe > Yuo.
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Delphi Aegis probably says this to all the girls:
www.penny-arcade.comGabe > Yuo.
As he said, its happened to a lot of people 
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We were all impressed when Reynar wrote:
Copyright protection on games is just going to alienate paying customers, eventually everyone will say screw it and just flat out pirate games, because its the only way they will work.
Apparently BF1942's long load times are caused by the copy protection.
The ones where it dumps you back to server select and then fucking reconnects to the server.
*returns BF1942*...
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We were all impressed when D wrote:
Apparently BF1942's long load times are caused by the copy protection.The ones where it dumps you back to server select and then fucking reconnects to the server.
My GOD I hate that
I really have to agree with Tycho on the whole copy protection issue
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JooJooFlop had this to say about Jimmy Carter:
If they figured out a hack that would prevent the "boot to server and reconnect" thing in BF1942 and I owned a legit copy, would it be wrong for me to use it?
Legally? Si.
Morally?
I'm playing UT2003 right now. I had to apply an "unofficial patch" because without it, it wouldn't run. Now it does.
I paid my $60. I don't feel bad about wanting the game to work.
-carl.
I dunno. It's not a cheat, it's not tipping the scales of the game in your favor, you paid for it and have evidence thereof--in my opinion, as long as it doesn't go past the point of simply making the game run better, there's nothing wrong with it.
However, once again, I presume their lawyers would disagree. Such is life.
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JooJooFlop had this to say about Punky Brewster:
If they figured out a hack that would prevent the "boot to server and reconnect" thing in BF1942 and I owned a legit copy, would it be wrong for me to use it?
In a word; who gives a shit?
It's not like the software police are going to break down your door.
I prefer Red Alert 2's Copyright Violation procedure...
It flags it on boot up, and lets you move around the game menus normally, but when you actually load a mission, or a map, all your units exploded instantaneously.
It weren't any real false positives, but we did trigger it sometimes when tinkering with stuff while modmaking we shouldn't have, .
