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Offline MrRiplEy[H]

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Starfarce strikes again
« on: December 24, 2005, 10:55:08 PM »
Remember the controversy on starforce copy protection when Silent Hunter III came out?

Several people have experienced blue-screen dumps when trying to install and run the GT-Legends demo on their computers. I being one of them.

Turns out that GT-Legends is 'protected' by starfarce. In addition, if you have an older set of starfarce drivers on your computer, you will get a nice bluescreen with the instant you try to play the GT-Legends demo.

What we need is a class-action lawsuit against Starfarce and each company that implement ridiculous crap like that.
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Starfarce strikes again
« Reply #1 on: December 25, 2005, 10:25:42 AM »
..................or couldn`t we just refuse to spend our money on such things?
Money talks, BS walks. :)
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Offline MrRiplEy[H]

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Starfarce strikes again
« Reply #2 on: December 25, 2005, 11:07:37 AM »
Spend money? I downloaded a demo which had this crap inside. And since I already owned SH3 I had an older set of starcrap on the computer which probably lead to the BSOD. Nicely enough there was no comment on starfarce in the EULA - it was briefly mentioned in the 'About GT Legends' section which even the most aware users skip for sure.

Needless to say I won't be buying GT Legends which is a huge shame as I really liked the demo. It would be one of the few games I'd spend money on.

But as a protest to the stupendous copy protection scheme SH3 was my first and last starfarce protected game I'll ever purchase.

The problem is that there are really few game titles you can actually buy nowadays without subjecting your computer to system level gimmicks, forced cd/dvd insertions etc. crap. That is, unless you're prepared to ware them.
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Offline RedDg

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Starfarce strikes again
« Reply #3 on: December 25, 2005, 11:37:58 AM »
Yep, you get it free with many demo downloads now.  It's the gift that keeps on giving.

Craptastic! :mad:
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Offline mora

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Starfarce strikes again
« Reply #4 on: December 25, 2005, 12:49:14 PM »
Starfarce just increases the illegal copying of games. There has never been a fool proof copy protection and I doubt there never will. I would have certainly bought SH3 but skipped it because of SF, and got my copy from BitTorrent once the 1.3 patch was cracked.
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