Bloody pirates!
 

Is anyone else annoyed by all of the crack/key gen videos on youtube for CloD?

I haven't watched any of them. I don't even have the game yet. But it's annoying that people are pirating this game so freely, when we know how much work is being put into it. It's also annoying that i search for new CloD videos to enjoy, and all i get in results are these videos made by dickheads.

There must be something that can be done to these people?

if you search for the game title, you get more crack/keygen videos for it than you do actual videos.

I was marking them as fraud previously, but there are so many now I've pretty much given up. :(

not a single one of those works....

i have the game, but whilst ubi failed to deliver it to me i wanted to play so bad....

I've been saying all along the pirates are mad as heck, because they won't have their freebie BOB COD handed to them.

They have been driving moderators crazy with all their rampaging posts on this forums.

I'm glad others are beginning to see it.

Updates will go through steam so maintaining BOB COD will be difficult for them over the long run. Unless they are just set on getting it for free they would do better just to buy it. The workarounds will drive them nuts with all the patches we having coming over the next couple months.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=S0zt4opqL18

I wouldn't worry about these things too much. Nowadays, certain measures are in place (as an above poster said, no cracks seem to work right now... bold move to admit such an attempt in the official forums, btw) and, while UBI is pretty much aware of nothing, this is certainly the exception. They are taking care of it - as all other software companies take care of piracy issues concerning their own software.

That doesn't bother me too much as a legitimate player.

It amazes me that people can spend hundreds/thousands of pounds for a new rig but can't fork out £30 for a game to play on it.

S!

Exactly Meusli. Many of the piewats have rigs in range of well above average yet they can not afford to buy a game. And you can waste that money easy in a pub for example, but Cliffs Of Dover just keps getting better :)

there must be at least a hundred of those videos of youtube! I reported a few but for every singe one I report, 2 videos will take its place!

Ummm... welcome to reality ? Don't worry though, as long as there is good multiplayer - the game will sell.

I by no means condone making dodgy copies and ripping people off, but it happens.

As CoD is covered by steam, I'd expect the torrent's will be the non-patched versions, not sure if they'll press newer versions, probably not. With that, the version will be of course out of date and shan't have the new content.

A lot of people that pirate a game will also be trying it out and if like it, buy it.

Maybe it's a cunning plan to release games that don't work very well to start with. :p

I actually pirated the game at first, I was worried that my old computer wouldnt handle it due to all the reports of bad performance.
But when the developers showed that they were very eager to fix the game, i decided to buy it to give them my support.
I will probably get banned for this post, but that is the price of honesty.

Most people who are pirating this game would never have bought the game in the first place so its usually not much loss any way. I know I have gottne pirated games in the past and never really played them. Every game that I really wanted I bought because I knew that was the only way to enjoy it the way it was meant to, especially MP.

I have pirated games in the past, but i dont bother no more, i just buy the games i really wanted to play.

But i have been let down a few times, pre orderd Empire totalwar, and it did not work and took 6 patchs to fix and its still buged. pre orded silent hunter 5 and it was unplayable.

So i pre orderd mafia 2 only for it to have half of its content removed. with a storyline that had been edited by a deranged monkey.

so i pre orded codemasters F1 race sim, only for it to have such huge bugs a deranged monkey with no arms could win a championship in a lotus with 3 wheels. oh and codemaster released one patch that did not work and walked away.

So i can understand why ppl pirate, but i really only play games that are released by paradox or Maddox these days and i not been upset by any of them.

I still would of bought Cliffs of Dover if Oleg just executed my chilrdren

This +1

Won't stop publishers sighting this as a reason for the death of PC gaming.

It'd be a real kick in the nuts if the new patch didn't work with the cracked game. Someone pirates the game thinking they have a new sim to fly only to find out its buggy as he!!.

Still personally don't believe many will pirate the sim and cost the devs much. I'd be willing to bet since this is not some twitch shooter very few will actually steal it for themselves especially when comparing it to MOH, Crysis, or Call of Duty numbers and or percentage wise. Flying combat is no easy thing to pick up, and trying it online will be even more humbling.

Flyingbullseye

I have known lots of people over the years that have gotten pirated games in the past and every single one of them rarely even played the games. I think they just like the idea of gettin a hacked game. Most played the game once and then never again. Everything that I ever really wanted I bought becasue I knew I wanted the full unadultered experiance. And if your like myself and really only play multiplayer then you cant usually use a hacked game online.

My daddy always told me that if your gonna sell your soul don't sell it cheap.

Your gonna be a thief and do it for $50?

Pathetic really. If I'm gonna be a thief, its gonna take 7 figures and a sure fire plot for starters. $50? thats just being a whore.



Fang

protection with steam is solid, the pirates will not enjoy the game and some have probably been scammed to pay for passwords etc..., no patch will work on a bogus copy that is for sure, in fact the patch will probably cripple their copy of the game...

It's a lot less trouble, a lot more fun and supporting of a great bunch who worked so hard, to simply buy the game ...

I personally don't steal ANY games, CloD isn't an exception (I got my CE today, BTW) and I hate people doing that. And there should be somebody to search for piracy on YouTube and report it to some law organisations made against piracy.

Wrong, protection with steam is not solid, within a couple of days of this game going live a working cracked copy was out on torrent sites, and trust me for every update, there will be a new crack
And a lot of the people that download them, do infact end up buying the game, because as much as you can play single player, you cant play multiplayer

Pirates should be hung, drawn and quartered.
No exceptions.

Sorry guys but if your telling me you've never downloaded anything illegally of the internet, and i dont just mean games, anything.
well, sorry i find that hard to belive lol

Multiplayer is where the devs should be concentrating on protection since that is where the long-term players will be. Make it frustrating enough for pirates to get on the servers (if possible) and many of them will buy it when it's cheap enough.

I am very glad that solidshield has been removed, though. This would have become a very annoying thorn in the side of this forum as people began to get locked out their game.

Used to but then I got a job.

Once downloaded, installed and all, start playing and find out it's crippled. That's how strong protection works now. As was reported earlier, none of those copies work properly.

http://img716.imageshack.us/img716/2...toonpirate.png

arrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr :rolleyes:

Oh OK I still download music from frostwire and an occasional movie so sue me.

I have every intention to buy CloD in USA when its done being optimized...whenever that is!

There are a number of copies floating around that have the first patch included. The game can't be played on-line and most of the people I know here in the states that have it already pre ordered. So its kinda like they already paid for it and get to experience a buggy start to what is going to be a great game.

And honestly the game didnt have a demo, so this is not all that bad IMHO. Besides most of them just wanted to see if it would run on their rig, BEFORE the 19th so they could get the needed upgrades in time, to more enjoy the US release.


and if none of that put your angers to rest. Well pirating is just what happens when you have release dates that are a MONTH apart.

To be honest at first I was upset when I saw US getting CLod last but after this whole fiasco with code problems I'm not so mad. ITs like the early buyers are doing beta testing. Still not sure what hardware this is gonna need till they done patching and optimizing code. I hope it doesnt take all summer. Maybe they can get the ROF programmer to help out for some cash!!

Or maybe ROF could swap anti stutter optimization for some decent netcode. Just sayin'.

That's always the downside of pirate copies and as you say, many then buy the game for that reason, offline is okay for a while, but the type of people that download torrents are most likely the type that like online action.

Danjama,

did you by any chance click on some of those videos and see what they are exactly? Yes, it is a fraud, but not with the IL2 Cod, just leads you to some site where you clicking make money to the people.

Knowing what you are talking about, showing real interest for the things that you are talk about, and before all reaction without emotions in them, can make you less stupid among friends actually.

No, I didn't click on them, why would I? Thanks for the kind words though.

Not sure why it matters that the content of said movies is not what's promised on the title - does that make it ok?

Get some manners.

So, you wasn't even sure what is it all about? You even don't know if there are some cracks and keygens and all that pirate stuff in those videos?


You just read the titles, and run here screaming "wolf, wolf"? Actually just making noise. Why?


No need to thank me, I'm glad that I can help.
Let me just repeat those words once more, just to be of even more help:

Even with manners this time.

;)

I'm thinking we have the understanding of the release now... cheers