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[Hrett]

Have fun! Write us a good review!

[Grumbold]

How much is a cheap flight London - NY these days and where do you live?

[Draginol]

Re Copy protection:

I'd say one way to limit piracy is to keep providing free updates to the game after release for a long period of time that can only be downloaded by registered users.

So even someone who gets a pirated version of the game, if the game is good they'll likely end up buying it to get the free updates rather than hunt around for a cracked patch.

I personally think piracy is greatly overstated. It's hard to feel bad for game companies when often games are released buggy, then patched to minimum functionality and then abandoned.

[Arnelos]

Originally posted by Draginol
Re Copy protection:

I'd say one way to limit piracy is to keep providing free updates to the game after release for a long period of time that can only be downloaded by registered users.

So even someone who gets a pirated version of the game, if the game is good they'll likely end up buying it to get the free updates rather than hunt around for a cracked patch.

I personally think piracy is greatly overstated. It's hard to feel bad for game companies when often games are released buggy, then patched to minimum functionality and then abandoned.

This is absolutely true. I know a few people who cracked Warcraft III and then finally went out to buy the game after one of the patches ruined their cracked versions.

It works.

[Jamski]

If only you could download "offical" no-cd cracks. It makes me mad changing the cds over all the time. I don't know how this would affect piracy though.

-Jam