Copy Protection, etcetera

**sapi** · 09-10-2007, 13:07

If someone was going to pirate the game, copy protection would make absolutely no difference...well, it might waste ten more seconds of their life finding a copy that has it bypassed, but that would be it.

I agree that the smart PR thing to do would be to ditch it; but I wouldn't like to be the one to have to sell that to the execs

**Matty** · 09-10-2007, 13:28

The local counterfeit market had Kingdoms one day after release. Still the shops selling originals don't have it. I fear I am about to crack... (ho ho)

**Jeroen Hill** · 09-10-2007, 15:03

Whats the use of a copy protection anyway. People who dont buy the game but download it get a working crack with the warez release in 99% of the cases. And people who did buy it sometimes get to deal with annoyances, securom+deamon tools anybody?

A copy protection is merely a small delay for warez groups to crack it, thats all.

So imho, save yourself money and drop the copy protection. It's not going to stop people from downloading it.

**Vuk** · 09-10-2007, 16:05

lol, Star Force is still not letting me access my Task Manager. :P CopyProtection is a load of BS. I have never pirated a game in my life, but with very little difficulty could get my hands on Kingdoms w/out paying for it, or any of those darn Ubi games. I know a guy who buys games with copy protection, then breaks it for the heck of it. (He doesn't even distribute it, just likes to be able to do it)

The only people who it could turn off would have to be absolute idiots. I would love to see the sucsess rate for copyprotection. I can tell you first hand what it does to lawabiding gamers computers. (The reason I am not going to ever buy another Ubi game)

Vuk

**Laman** · 09-10-2007, 17:43

Voted no, since as already said, it does not hinder the pirates at all. Might slow them down a few minutes or hours at best. Filthy pirates. If copy protection, non-invasive stuff. Otherwise it only annoys the legitimate users.

**Daithi MacGuillaCathair** · 09-10-2007, 18:27

Definitly no and if they include stuff which will interfear with other programs i would be 99% tempted to get the cracked version rather than the actual game.

there is no point, anyone who cant figure out how to get a pirate version probably cant play the game anyway.

**NagatsukaShumi** · 09-10-2007, 23:52

As its the industry I will be working in I voted yes, but with no intrusions etc. I think if the company wants to TRY and protect their game they should, they aren in it to make money, as we all are.