Silent Hunter 4-funny twist on the whiners

[Forward Observer]

There is no Starforce.

Ubisoft has quit using this type of copy protection due to all the controversy. I read somewhere that Ubi actually took a poll across their various game forums, and as a result canceled the use of Starforce for all future games.

Someone actually brought a class action suit against either them or Starforce, but I don't know if it went to any sort of formal litagation.

Of course there is a way around Starforce for some of the games if one utilzes the no disk (you know what) option, but I understand that this can cause conflicts with the mods that have been developed---at least for SH3

It would be nice if they re-issued Silent Hunter 3 without it, and I think Ubisoft is missing quite a few additional sales by not doing so. I still play the original, but I would certainly buy a re-issue if they released it sans Starforce.

I recently had to replace a CD/DVD read/write drive that just quit working, and although i have no idea if Starforce had anything to do with it, I would just feel better if i could continue the play the game with my system totally free of that Draconian crap.

The publishers of the space sim X3 Reunion re-released their game without Starforce, and everybody I know that had the original went out and bought an additional copy of Starforce free edition.

Cheers

[Kekvit Irae]

I remember playing Pirates! Gold and if you got the copyright protection answers wrong, the game slowly became unplayable.

[TevashSzat]

The Sims 2 also used a system like this one where you cant enter build mode and your people turns into rabbits i think

[Kekvit Irae]

The Sims 2 also used a system like this one where you cant enter build mode and your people turns into rabbits i think

I haven't noticed a this.