Doordie, did a protection software just kill your children, raped your wife and robbed your parents? No? Then chill out.
Newer protection software are "dumb-proof". Anyone ever had
ANY sort of issue with Starforce online activation, for example? Damn, even
I could do it easily and mine was in Russian (as a side note, my Russian is still pretty bad). How in Earth can someone screw up such an easy operation? Click button. Type serial number. Click "Yes" (or "Да"). Done! Oh my, that was hard, eh?
Yes, eventually some idiot will crack it. But then his solution will require such amount of work that most 10-year old children with a torrent client and an internet connection will just give up and go play Sponge Bob instead.
DRM is a nice option because it screws it for the pirate and offers no disadvantage to the guy who did it legally. For reasons I've already mentioned, I don't believe on-line activation is the way (and it seems neoqb agrees, as it is planning to change the log-in system for Rise of Flight)
Some are traumatized by some reviews on early StarForce versions when Flaming Cliffs just came out, as it was somewhat "agressive", but this is past, folks.
If you show me protection is useless with effective evidences, I'll then stand corrected. But so far, it seems that it's not quite the situation here
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