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Old 20-05-2008, 12:15 PM   #14 (permalink)
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Originally Posted by fandango29 View Post
You'd be pretty dumb to issue a disc with no copy protection, though! Sure it wont necessarily stop the pirates for long, but it could be a serious inconvenience for regular gamers so they just stump up and pay for the real deal. Much as I like something for nothing and dislike invasions of my privacy, I'm in favour of companies protecting their revenues and intellectual property. I just wish they wouldn't come up with such bad ways of doing it (like installing malware, or forcing you to have an internet connection).
Exactly, im all for companies protecting their property, but the 3 activations with no deactivate tool is insane. Theres absolutely no reason to not provide a deactivate tool and to up the activation limit as 2K games have done for Bioshock
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