Originally posted by Pop_Smith:

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I don't even see why they bother with "protections" anymore.

The average Joe may not be able to get around it to copy it for the neighbor but the biggest fish, the warez groups, all know or very quickly learn how to get around the protections anyway.

As DVDBack23 stated, it seems as if they are wanting consumers to pirate their stuff. I would love to see a company release a PC game DRM-Free just to show that it would probably sell more (if its a decent game) then if they put tons of restrictions on it such as the ones in Mass DRM...err..Effect.

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Originally posted by cart0181:

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"If the distributors of Mass Effect are trying to push gamers towards piracy (where the games have infinite activations and never have to phone home) and they are certainly doing a good job."

So, is the patch out yet? lol ( I don't own nor will I ever own this game, I'm just joking, but curious nonetheless. )

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Originally posted by chaos_zzz:

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The main disvantage with pirated games in the past was losing online-gaming feature, but extra servers are popping up for most games so it doesn't really mather anymore.
but bothering the costumer with all this is just piracy-encouraging, not even MS does this... >.<

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If the distributors of Mass Effect are trying to push gamers towards piracy (where the games have infinite activations and never have to phone home) and they are certainly doing a good job.

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Originally posted by navi1199:

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basically what we are buying is a license not a game. the game is theirs we're just paying 60 bucks for permission to play the game up to 3 install, then they take it away from us.

interesting concept.

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Originally posted by link:

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Tuesday, January 29, 2008
Copy Protection
AKA: Yes Virgnia, there?s no CD copy protection in Sins of a Solar Empire

I remember hearing at a conference that when an executive at a big publisher heard that Galactic Civilizations II shipped with no CD copy protection that they quipped ?I hope bankruptcy treats them well.?

Millions of dollars in sales later as one of the top selling PC strategy games at retail (according to NPD) over the past couple of years let?s me say ?Ha!? in response. And this is on a game that made most of its money on digital sales.

I don?t like piracy. I don?t like people using stuff my friends and I worked very hard on for years without compensating us. But I also can make the distinction between piracy and lost sales. That?s a distinction that most DRM and copy protection schemes ignore.

The bottom line on copy protection is that if you create a greater incentive for someone to buy your game than to steal it, those who might possibly buy your game will make the choice to buy it.

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Originally posted by skopas:

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You'd figure they would learn from Crysis, if the game is good it will sell despite piracy. It sold over a million-plus and still going. Like one of the posters said, this just promotes piracy. I mean keep the basic protection on, but putting it in a straight jacket to do a periodical internet check up which will then mess up the settings of the game or your puter. Forget it.

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Originally posted by sgriesch:

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Why the limitations on everything? It's almost like buying a car, but only being able to drive it to 3 places. How bout a little more freedom here? 3 is incredibly low.
Just out of curiousity, does anyone know if AnyDvd corrects any of this? Or would this be a completely different beast?

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