ROF online shenanigan.

[Robert]

I've never pirated a game. I have a hard time saying I in fact would pirate RoF, but I feel they have tied the hands of hobbyists. I really wouldn't mind as much if six months ago or a year ago they'd have come up with this scheme. How many simmers would have been mad, but wouldn't have gotten their hopes for a WW1 flight sim? To announce their stupid copy protection measures so close to release shoots them in the foot by angering HONEST, LOYAL PURCHASING simmers.

They deserve lost sales. They deserve to be pirated. It's the honest folks who pay the price of theft. I'm seriously looking at doing exactly what I thought I'd never do - PIRATE a game.

[kristorf]

Much as I am looking forward to this game (not been a good WWI sim since RB3d) the 'need to be connected' element concerns me, why is it needed, and what purpose does it serve??

[SlipBall]

Originally Posted by kristorf

Much as I am looking forward to this game (not been a good WWI sim since RB3d) the 'need to be connected' element concerns me, why is it needed, and what purpose does it serve??

In a nutshell...anti piracy. It seem's they would like to keep a locked game locked, is my take

[JG52Uther]

Originally Posted by SlipBall

In a nutshell...anti piracy. It seem's they would like to keep a locked game locked, is my take

Or...they can go 'pay to play' as you can only play on their server...

[Forgottenfighter]

Or...they can go 'pay to play' as you can only play on their server...

I thought of that but, they are walking on thin ice already, if they did that they would be paying people to come back.

[JG52Uther]

Originally Posted by Forgottenfighter

I thought of that but, they are walking on thin ice already, if they did that they would be paying people to come back.

Well unfortunately they have already shown that they have badly misjudged their target customers.

[SlipBall]

Originally Posted by JG52Uther

Well unfortunately they have already shown that they have badly misjudged their target customers.

Bigtime for sure! I think that they underestimate their clients, and will loose many potential sales as a result

[Igo kyu]

Originally Posted by tagTaken2

Either that, or a crack to play offline will come out, and coincide with a huge jump in sales.

That worries me. If that happens, they will think they have been successful with this. Non-sales they will notice, sales after piracy are still sales, so not a loss to be recognised.

I won't be pirating this, I don't ever, there are too many great old games available for very little money to go that route. Some of the old games are rubbish (or not to my taste, but I suspect it's a combination of that and some being rubbish), but there are some very good ones.

[tagTaken2]

I'm starting to wonder what people mean when they say 'piracy'.

For me, a no-cd crack that I use on my legally purchased cd is not piracy.

Downloading a hacked copy because my legally purchased cd is going to require me to connect to the internet is a bit dubious, but hey, I paid for the game, I'm damn well going to play it.

But for me, as long as I've purchased the game, I haven't technically 'pirated'. That's reserved for people who haven't paid for the game.

Are we even allowed to talk about this here ??

[Robert]

I just sent off an email to neoqb discussing how many postings from these and other forums have expressed disatisfaction at their business model.

I can't fathom why they think this would be a good idea. I urge others to do the same at: hello@neoqb.com


MAYBE they might listen to the customers who send letters instead of posting on web site forums. I've been looking forward to this game as long as anyone. To have the shirt tails pulled out so close to release like this is not funny and in poor taste.