Will You Buy a SecuRomed Empire?

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Hmm, I didn't think it was. Well, maybe now that it's been thoroughly discussed in the M2TW forums some opinions will have changed.

[woad&fangs]

no

[Matt_Lane]

I've gotta say I'm stoked about ETW and I can't wait for it to hit the shelves. However the one big, big, big fly in my ointment is SecuRom. I was constantly on the Total War web page during the build up to Kingdoms but the SecuRom fiasco has so far put me off from buying a copy. I reckon like a true TW junkie I'll eventually give in and pick up a copy but so far I've been holding out until I see it cheaper enough to justify infecting my machine. I really don't want this stuff in my system but I suppose once I'm hooked I might not be so bothered by the copy protection on ETW so the honest answer is that yes I'll probably still buy it and then bitch about it later on these very pages.

[Husar]

Sorry but this is laughable.
What good is a copy protection if you deliver it with a removal tool?

Hidden folders are also really scary (hint: Windows has some )

And I'm really surpried that the game is not supposed to be playable without the copy protection, that sounds as if they try to stop people from copying it.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

Ubisoft released some patches that removed StarForce after the fact, to my knowledge. This poll operates on the presumption that CA will not.

[RoadKill]

OHH MMYY LOOORRDDD!!!!

STOP WITH THESE DAMN THREADS!!!

[Caius]

I'm not sure.-

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

OHH MMYY LOOORRDDD!!!!

STOP WITH THESE DAMN THREADS!!!

Just curiosity. Relax.

[Husar]

Ubisoft released some patches that removed StarForce after the fact, to my knowledge. This poll operates on the presumption that CA will not.

The evil about StarForce is not just that it has hidden folders, it can make optical drives deteriorate and become useless, if SecuROM did that as well I wouldn't buy SecuROM games but so far I haven't heard anyone claim that it does. SecuROM is not StarForce.

[Alexander the Pretty Good]

I don't know. I do know that I haven't purchased Kingdoms at least partially due to the DRM stuff. Ultimately, I think it would depend on how virulent such protection software was and how good Empires actually is judged by people here.

[Evil_Maniac From Mars]

The evil about StarForce is not just that it has hidden folders, it can make optical drives deteriorate and become useless, if SecuROM did that as well I wouldn't buy SecuROM games but so far I haven't heard anyone claim that it does. SecuROM is not StarForce.

What I meant by "hidden folders" was more that it hides the install from you than that the folders are simply hidden by default.

[Husar]

Yes, and when you install Windows it also creates folders that are hidden by default. Are you using Linux or a Mac because of that?