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Originally Posted by mazex
happy owner of RoF, and plays Silent Hunter III regularly with no Starforce problems... Will buy SH5 and SoW too (which probably will have some online authentication system to - at least for multiplayer).
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I have SH3, and I bought it after the disc check (star force) was removed from what I recall, which was years ago. Soo star force shouldn't be a hassle for you with SH3
Adobe Photoshop and Corel Painter have 'licensing' (i.e. DRM) software running constantly on one's computer as 'services' if the programs are installed. Very shitty stuff.
No matter what copy protection system, everything can and does get it's DRM removed if it attracts the attention of talented software engineers, and VERY ironically it makes the user distributed versions more desirable to acquire than the publisher distributed versions. Something has gone wrong when the officially distributed version (which they want money for) is inferior to the free versions. At least with the Silent Hunter series one gets a peachy map in the DVD case (I love those things!)