I wonder how much copy right protection SOWBOB really needs. Even though its graphics should be incredable this is still a flight sim and one that won't have a small learning curve like the typical FPS. The average customer won't pick it up and become an instant ace, leaving it to a smaller segment of the customer base, us. With a smaller customer base compared to the likes of Crysis or UT3 it just may not be as attractive to the pirates who want to make a ill gotten buck. Now the noob hacks who want to rack up a lot of cheap kills online may be more of a problem than illegal pirating.

Flyingbullseye

I gotta repeat it... a little differently.

I hate the existing piracy protections schemes that mess with my system, i,e. boonty box, starforce, etc.

I hate piracy more, because it makes thieves out of otherwise decent people. It is terribly unfair to the developers of music, films, videos or software.

The piracy sites are making money off their advertisers, and you'll never stop that without some type of government intervention.

If Oleg wants to use a piracy protection on BOB SOW, just because it's Oleg I'll participate. Oleg, has done and plans to do another masterful job on the finest CFS ever. The guy deserves out support and bending his way abit may mean we make choices we're not altogether happy about.

It is not good for Oleg to put up his work and have it pirated all over the web. The Pacfic Fighters was on the piracy sites, before the boxes for the release were printed. This must have been the biggest neg out imaginable to Oleg and his development team.

Honestly, I admire Oleg for continuing with the series. The guy is one in a million, because most everyone else would have just said "Scr$w it and gone on to something easier to do, and more profitable".

Speak for yourself.

I will be making choices I'm happy with, and that includes knocking the SoW series back if I'm uncomfortable with the CP protection. And believe me, I'm looking forward to SoW everybit as much as you.

I mentioned above... I didn't buy PE-2 because I didn't want the Starforce or Boonty Box thingy, and I've never bought any of the followup releases of the Lock-On after the first release for the same reason.

There is nothing I'm putting on my computer to corrupt it for any game.

I'm just hoping Oleg can address the issue of piracy and still provide us a competent workable situation for protection of his software.

I know a few people that refuse to use games that run securerom (the protection system used on non-US 1946 DVDs) because of the way it interferes with apps like itunes and Nero.

In any case, I have to agree that any copy protection scheme that interferes badly with (some) PCs will force people who would buy the game to illegal copies, just to avoid this potential problem.

I say "potential" cause big problem with all this fancy protection schemes, is that no one can know for sure if they will affect his system badly or not and thus everyone prefers to not deal with them. Forums are full of legitimate customers who faced tremendous problems by stupid copy protection schemes.

Oleg should do it like musical artists, be screwed over by the record company on CD sales but make a killing on concerts ..... though I am not sure If I'd go to see a Oleg concert ;)

I understand the need to have something in place. Agree in the hope, that it's not too agressive