Another method of activating SOW.........

[csThor]

Originally Posted by zauii

The fun thing is that the so called "BS" are the people themselves that surround each other with something they claim to be "their rights", when there is no such thing here..
The developers make the game and they themselves alone have every right in the world to protect their own game/property in any way they see fit no matter how much you twist and turn it.

BS is only the talk of "wannabe pirates" scared that their product would be generated useless 5 years later, but let me enlighten you, we live in 2010 a time when protection is necessary.

Why would you be so worried about whats gonna happen 5 years from now ? If you're really that paranoid maybe you're better off not investing in
any products at all since even your home electricity can't be guaranteed and hey.. that would render just about anything in your home useless remember?

As for methods i've no problem with whatever Oleg decides since its up to them, but most likely we'll see a master server for the online play
this time around which automatically will prevent hackers from playing online unless the server binaries gets released to the public and hacked.

Come off your high horse, zauii. You call me a "wannabe pirate"? Short-sighted guys like you are the reason publishers like Ubisoft are getting away with their DRM BS. If you are so eager to sign away your own rights as PC owner and user (I am not talking about the program, yet) then I really wish you a future in which every game you want to play does cost a montly fee just to show you the true reason for such draconic DRM schemes. It's not about piracy, it's about implementing pay-to-play across the whole scale of gaming even for offline content. Wanna play SoW - North Africa? No problem, just 9,99€ a month. Enter credit card details here. Want to participate in Multiplayer? Upgrade your account to "Gold" for just 14,95 € a month.

This is the publishers' way of injecting themselves into the distribution process again, to create new ways of accumulating revenue and tying customers to themselves so that they can milk them for all the $ or € they can. This is the reason for such systems, not piracy, not the grossly inflated claims from the suits in the beancounter departments. I have no issues with paying a sensible amount of money to make aircraft types flyable (like RoF does), but I will not grant a game development company or publisher (especially the latter) the right to milk me for marketing data, force me to violate a very fundamental security measure just for playing a game.