Originally posted by Swager
WOW! Im glad I read this! Thanks! I was just getting ready to buy SHIII.
Too bad seems like a great SIM.
Sounds like you're backing off.. why, theres no reason to back off.
Most of the stuff about Starforce is really exagerrated.
Of course it is a bit more annoying than say the Safedisc, but ultimately it is the same.
People talks lots of crap about it, like broken cd-drives etc., however with little logical conclusion you would figure out that if it'd be possible for Starforce, then there would be many other programs too, especially the malicious programs aka viruses.
(Some years ago the monitors didn't have a refresh lock and some malicious programs appeared which gave the monitor too high refresh signal -> poof. A prime example of what happens with the hardware vulnerabilities.)
So it is grossly exagerrated.
Many other anti-copy protections do also copy files on the computer which you can't remove simply by removing the software. Starforce just goes a little deeper, but it DOES offer a removal tool, unlike the rest.
I'm not any Starforce advocate or such, but I prefer to use common sense.
If you think you like a sub game, then go ahead and buy it.
Just keep in mind it is only available on DVD, a friend of mine didn't and is now yet another 20 bucks poorer
