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porphy · 03-27-09, 07:05 AM

This is extracted as a separate discussion from the SBP pre-order thread.

Skybird

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The dongle is the best copy protection I have tried so far.

I'm surprised that not more game developers uses this way to protect their games, at least for games that are a bit less mainstream and are supposed to be played more than a few weeks to beat them. One dongle can hold all the licences for your games. Also it is a good long time solution as you always can offer the game for a new download and the customer can make as many back up copies they want.

Every copy protection method has its problems, even the dongle, but from a customers view it has the least practical problems as it never interferes with any other computer or hardware stuff you do. Ok, it can in rare cases malfunction, but eSim games have top notch support to quickly solve something like that. Perhaps that's way some companies don't want the dongle, they want a fire and forget copy protection. Which of course is a pipe dream.

From a producers perspective the dongle has one outstanding attractive trait as it, as far as I know, never have been cracked, which is very unique.

cheers porphy

03-27-09, 07:05 AM	#1
porphy Commodore Join Date: Nov 2002 Location: Sweden Posts: 603 Downloads: 4 Uploads: 0	Pro and contra of dongle copy protection This is extracted as a separate discussion from the SBP pre-order thread. *Skybird* --------------- The dongle is the best copy protection I have tried so far. I'm surprised that not more game developers uses this way to protect their games, at least for games that are a bit less mainstream and are supposed to be played more than a few weeks to beat them. One dongle can hold all the licences for your games. Also it is a good long time solution as you always can offer the game for a new download and the customer can make as many back up copies they want. Every copy protection method has its problems, even the dongle, but from a customers view it has the least practical problems as it never interferes with any other computer or hardware stuff you do. Ok, it can in rare cases malfunction, but eSim games have top notch support to quickly solve something like that. Perhaps that's way some companies don't want the dongle, they want a fire and forget copy protection. Which of course is a pipe dream. From a producers perspective the dongle has one outstanding attractive trait as it, as far as I know, never have been cracked, which is very unique. cheers porphy __________________ "The only remedy for madness is the innocence of facts." O. Mirbeu "A paranoid is simply someone in possession of all the facts." W. B. Last edited by Skybird; 04-02-09 at 04:27 PM.