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Originally Posted by Lucas_From_Hell
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.
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  . |
#1. Have you heard the saying "not every bmw driver is an idiot, but every idiot has a bmw" ? well it's like that with computers now, there's no such thing as idiot proof. in fact user friendly had be more problematic when they don't have to any control. i had a midway game, it wasted about 45 minutes installing over 10 gigs and when it came to running the game it gives me "error: your comp doesn't meet requirements". i go to the forum and theres a hundred posts about the same problem. no support, just a big middle finger for buying their title. something tells me one of the cracked groups figured out a way to make it run regardless if you don't have one of the 3 nvidia cards that dam game supports.
#2. those 10-year olds know computers better than me or you, i know i used to be one. they don't give up either. and most of all they don't play spongebob. if i had Carmageddon and jpg's of porno loading at 14.4kbps, imagine what they have now.
Protection doesn't work. At best you'll keep them out of the fasted deticated servers and that should be enough for lovers to buy the game. But over zealous protection methods will fail epically, history has shown where there's a will there's a way.
the best thing you can hope for is to convince people to buy it. Don't make it $59.99 and have it stay there for 2 years. Don't have advertisements in your case, have a large manual, maps, cutouts of airplanes, coupons for $20 off CH joystick, anything!!! Have a user name you can register only with real copy and include stat tracking and things like that. People go crazy over that bullshit, no they die for it!! Even when it's anonymous, and you're playing against people you will never meet, some will waste valuable time to better their rankings. They'll cheat even. They'll forgot completely that the point of a game is its supposed to be fun. They care deeply about those things.
Have a nice case, special edition "P-51 Mustang! Greatest plane in history edition" (remember they're idiots
) with a signed photo of Oleg with red lipstick kiss mark.
Have a mission in "3d" which require the free IL-2 3d glasses made out of paper which come with the game. or aviator glasses. good luck publishers, i hope you don't F this one up
01-12-2010, 02:12 AM
is it being anal or fighting for something worthy
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