mmfaria Posted November 15, 2008 Share Posted November 15, 2008 First off, I'd like to say this is not my case. You can see several posts from me saying I have the STEAM copy of the game. Pre ordered it a month ago. But to the point now: People are applying the patch released in the strawberry demo version and getting it to work (I hear it's full of bugs, like you can't go on vacation), but it's something that should be looked at. This year's DRM prevented the game to be on the internet before the release, what is a great spet, but unfortunatelly the patch tha came out "ruinned" everything... Advice for SI/SEGA: hire some people just to try to crack the game. Surelly these people will find ways to crack it before it goes retail and you'll be able to fix those security's breach. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
SI Staff Marc Duffy Posted November 15, 2008 SI Staff Share Posted November 15, 2008 Believe me, we're monitoring all of this! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
rednwhites Posted November 15, 2008 Share Posted November 15, 2008 So all of this stupid activation ***** designed to stop piracy hasn't even stopped it at all? ****ing hell, who runs the team? The Chuckle Brothers?! Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
VyLow Posted November 15, 2008 Share Posted November 15, 2008 it has never stopped piracy. all this DRM crap is doing is driving more people to pirate. DRM would not stop piracy all game companies are doing with DRM is trying to end the second hand and rental market Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
djwilko6 Posted November 15, 2008 Share Posted November 15, 2008 Assuming the people that cracked it didnt manage to get a copy early (I'd be surprised) it still took them most of the first day of release to get it out to people, when usually the game is available upto a month in advance, I'd say it's been a good result against piracy, the authenticating tho is another matter. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
deleb Posted November 15, 2008 Share Posted November 15, 2008 Unfortunately, piracy can not be stopped. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
AdamC Posted November 15, 2008 Share Posted November 15, 2008 it has never stopped piracy. all this DRM crap is doing is driving more people to pirate. This is a good point. I've always used legal software but in recent months I've found myself looking into cracking/pirating methods in order to overcome DRM. I'm not the sort of person who usually does things like that either, so DRM literally has driven me to do it. Bad move by SI to go down this route. Trust me - it will make things much worse. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bRAzIL Posted November 15, 2008 Share Posted November 15, 2008 This is a good point. I've always used legal software but in recent months I've found myself looking into cracking/pirating methods in order to overcome DRM. I'm not the sort of person who usually does things like that either, so DRM literally has driven me to do it. Bad move by SI to go down this route. Trust me - it will make things much worse. So you have considered steeling? Your parents must be so proud.... Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
lee50_11 Posted November 15, 2008 Share Posted November 15, 2008 considered being the important word Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tim Bayliss Posted November 15, 2008 Share Posted November 15, 2008 Unfortunately, piracy can not be stopped. Correct. And as proven today, most attempts to protect games just result in pointless fail. Nothing is ever going to stop people cracking activation so I don't see why they don't just use normal CDKEY auth. Today's release is pure fail - and why? because they could've used Steam's activation but they hired a fail company to do it. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mat280 Posted November 15, 2008 Share Posted November 15, 2008 Some people like myself dont want that steam crap on there pcs though.I for one activated mine the Uniloc way and have had no problems.Ive never really understood anyone wanting to download a game to own legally over going to a shop and buying a nice box version in nice dvd case and manuel Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pirate Le Chuck Posted November 15, 2008 Share Posted November 15, 2008 arghhhhhhhhhhhhh we're the scurge of the seven seas Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
mmfaria Posted November 15, 2008 Author Share Posted November 15, 2008 Some people like myself dont want that steam crap on there pcs though.I for one activated mine the Uniloc way and have had no problems.Ive never really understood anyone wanting to download a game to own legally over going to a shop and buying a nice box version in nice dvd case and manuel The game isn't sold here in Brazil, so I have 2 options: a) Download it (eighter the legal or ilegal way); b) Import the game; Last year I imported the game, but as it takes around 2 weeks to arrive I downloaded the pirate verion anyway while wait. As I feel good about paying for something I like and it's cheaper and faster to buy it via digital download, I bought mine through STEAM this year. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bigfootedfred Posted November 15, 2008 Share Posted November 15, 2008 Believe me, we're monitoring all of this! is there anything you can do about it though? Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ricky_18 Posted November 15, 2008 Share Posted November 15, 2008 I think Marc was saying that they're monitoring how the game was "cracked" in order to correct it and not how many people are downloading the game and not buying. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Deltaroad Posted November 15, 2008 Share Posted November 15, 2008 The pirated games all work. The DRM only stopped the game being released early. What someone has done is brought the game, patched it up and unlocked it for everyone. Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mat280 Posted November 15, 2008 Share Posted November 15, 2008 DRM didnt work though some of us like myself had there boxed versions on the 13th November i got mine from amazon cost me £27.95 though.And although i was at work all day i tried the game at 6pm when i finished work and come home and i was playing within mins for activatin with uniloc Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
bell Posted November 15, 2008 Share Posted November 15, 2008 Im closing this threads as anything with the subject of piracy usually ends up with someone putting their foot in their mouth Link to post Share on other sites More sharing options...
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