Smith6612
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2 edits | DRM-enabled games...
Who these days would want to download a game fully into our hard drive and activate a CD/DVD key, just to have to insert it every time you want to play the game? Now, I use Steam and I have no problem with Steam based DRM as I like using Steam in the first place (and it's very loose on what you can do as well!), but honestly, the games I'd have to put a CD in for every time to play, it gets annoying especially if I lose the disk, and while I'd love to download a no-CD crack for something I had bought, I just don't feel like doing it for this same reason this article mentioned.
Honestly, I'd seriously wait several years until companies release No-CD patches for their own games. Most recently Bungie released a No-CD patch for both Halo: Combat Evolved and Halo: Custom Edition via the game's auto update and I'm glad they did, as it's a lot quicker and a lot more convenient than having to dig another game out of my DVD drive, put a game in, wait for it to spin up, open the game, and wait for it to read data off of the disk. Halo 2, thankfully runs entirely off of the HDD. Once registered with Microsoft, it's free to use without the CD.
By the way, isn't most video game piracy because people want to try the game out since the demos ususally suck? |
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hacker90
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| said by Smith6612  :By the way, isn't most video game piracy because people want to try the game out since the demos ususally suck? That in my case would be true for some games. Civ4 for eample. I downloaded it to try it back when it was released in October of 05. Got my a copy later that year for Christmas. CoH is another example of this, I just picked up the gold edition from newegg. It also has to involve the persons view on getting all the games in a pack or individual. |
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Kearnstd
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DRM requiring the CD is a major drive for pirates, its not just getting it free but there are plenty of people who pirate a copy with the legit box sitting on their desk. the pirated copy lets them run off the HDD.
however if you buy it and then download a version without the CD check its not really piracy, because you did give your money at the store.
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Not to mention burning out the life of your cd drives laser |
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Smith6612
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