CD Protection - what ended up happening?

[CrONoS]

Every game designer, game producer, multimedia artist etc... play his first game on a pirated version of the game, i'm sure about 75% of them play his first game with a pirated version of the game...for me i remember my old Police Quest 4..with my 386 SX(no mathematical processos)25MHZ,4 meg Ram, 80 Meg of Hardisk... just old good times... but i try to buy good games, like Civilization, WarCraft, Medal of Honor,i've bought the whole Simcity series... but I understand game maker who want to stop the pirated games or software...when you create something ad it cost YOU a lot of money,you want people to bought your game...

But so, it can be a long long not useful debate... let's make another debatebut a constructive one... Israel and Palestinian....???
I'm kidding, please dont post about palestinian or israel, that can be very bad...

Have a nice day everyone!

[LordCanar]

There are always the no-cd cracks, but thats illegal

[LordCanar]

Awesome, man that brings back memories, police quest, kings quest, amnesia, zork, loved em all, but i was a kid, never learned anything about code till say the call to power days....

[monkspider]

I love no-cd cracks, they keep my games from getting scratched up.

[ixnay]

Because the game would start approximately 50% of the time I ran the program, I got a no-cd crack. It now loads quicker and without error.

[Ming]

Come on ixnay... unless it is a crack ok'ed by the publishers...

Naughty boy...

I hope somebody isn't stupid enough to post a link to where it is available... because then it would be banning time

[FNBrown]

Yes... I'm going to keep a lookout for a better solution, but for the moment, the workaround for local LAN play seems to work ok.

Of course, the game is still buggy, and a better patch would be much appreciated. :-)

[CrONoS]

Ming....

about my edited sentence by Ming...
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I'm mad.. very mad...., not so..(cause it's just a game discussion) but you censure my sentence about the one cd issue and LAN.... Is it really illegal... to take one CD and play a LAN game ? If yes..it's stupid, and it's no, dont censure my quote... but your the moderator... heheh

I dont want to check the user agreement... bah, i will check it now... it's write that i can have epilepsy, or momentary loss of consciousness... this not that... hehe
... some people may experience fatigue... yeah, with a 24 hours of civ3 game, it can cause fatigue, but it's not the thing i search...****ty it's only about physical illnes.. motion sickness statement or dont distribute, rent...

hey Ming, where is write I cannot play a LAN game with only one CD, not a copied one, not a hacked one,but with the original CD and play with my frienf. I just check my Lisence Agreement.

I dont care about that, since it's just a game,and the world will not be better if it's legal or not, but just want to know if it's really illegal.... and if you cant censure me, even if it's legal..

Tanx, so Have a Nice Day Everyone...
But in Greece it's not illegal to play video game???
I,ve read this one month ago in the news... Poor greece, no Civ3 at all...

[number6]

Originally posted by vmxa1

If I have a bus I can have many people ride with me, if I have a moped I can't, what does any of it have to do with software? I missed the analogy.
Several games have done things that made it easy to MP, that is there choice. I bought Stars and it came with two disk so you could play with friends, but they did not have to do that.
If you rent a car you are not allowed to let others drive it unless you pay for the right to do so.

Most PC games allow LAN games to be played by some limited number (usually 4) of PC's on the same network off of one valid CD. Since the main selling point of the PTW expansion is multiplayer, Infogrames should also allow a small number of players on a LAN per CD. On the internet it is perfectly acceptable to expect one copy per player, but for a home LAN with less than 4 computers I think it is ridiculous to force the consumer to buy the same product X times where X is the number of systems they own and X is less than 5. I definitely will not be buying PTW for this reason alone. I have 2 PC's that are networked and I refuse to buy 2 copies (of both the original game and expansion which will total over $100) to play a game against someone else in my own home. Internet play is the only way to use the multiplayer capability if you buy only one copy. Bad decision Infogrames/Firaxis.

[JimMac]

Edited by Ming...

I guess some people still don't get it.

You aren't allowed to discuss ways to use the software illegally... it's that simple. Some people are just begging for a restriction.

[number6]

Another edit by ming.

[FNBrown]

And another edit by Ming...

The next time I have to edit in this thread, somebody is getting restricted.

If you don't like the rules here, you can find someplace else to post.

[Ming]

Re: Ming....

Originally posted by cronos_qc
If yes..it's stupid, and it's no, dont censure my quote... but your the moderator... heheh

What you suggest is illegal.

Unless somebody from Firaxis posts here that it isn't, I will continue to edit illegal discussion from these forums, and next time... a restriction comes with it.

[FNBrown]

Alright then... let's here from Firaxis.

Of course, they're gonna have a hard time posting the answer if you keep editing out the question...

Perhaps there's someone that can e-mail them directly?

[number6]

Originally posted by FNBrown
And another edit by Ming...

The next time I have to edit in this thread, somebody is getting restricted.

If you don't like the rules here, you can find someplace else to post.

Fine! By the way, nothing in my last post was illegal you just interprited that way. What a jerk!