Pacific Storm Demo - WAIT!!!

[Mike 'Red Ocktober' Hense]

Unless you don't have a problem installing Starforce on your machine, DON'T INSTALL PACIFIC STORM demo...

it looks like it tries to install Starforce protection onto your system...


--Mike

[Hunter]

Starforce protection of Demo. What on Earth are you talking about?

[Mike 'Red Ocktober' Hense]

yeah... doesn't seem to make much sense, does it.


http://www.gamespot.com/pc/strategy/pacificstorm/show_msgs.html?topic_id=m-1-27960957

http://www.firingsquad.com/news/newsarticle.asp?searchid=10066

http://www.stevestreeting.com/?p=320

http://www.ogre3d.org/phpBB2/viewtopic.php?t=20334&sid=599f033f741ad5be1f8a0f472c81d1ae

the last link is from the OGRE forums... the forum of the 3D engine that Pacific Storm is made with...

ok, you've been alerted... go ahead and install it if you want...

--Mike

[SUBMAN1]

Why are devs still using this? I refuse to ever load any game with this protection without cracking it first. The other one I can't stand is Steam that came along with HL2 - again, I never installed Steam with HL2 and yes you can play HL2 without steam.

An example of devs going the right way is Oblivion. SImple DVD check is all the protection on this game, and I purchased the more expensive collecters edition because of it.

I don't get the SF mentallity.

-S

[NeonSamurai]

Well typicaly its not the devs who decide on the copy protection, its the publishing house.

Honestly i dont think the publishers who decide on copy protections think about it at all they just see copy protections as a method of converting pirates to "sales" and actualy dont think about the numbers of legit customers they drive away, and many seem to think that every pirated copy = 1 lost sale (which is absurd). So they stick with these draconian copy protection schemes and stick their fingers in there ears, meanwhile the priates quickly get rid of the copy protection and live happily ever after, while often some to several of the game's actual purchasers suffer with said copy protection.

[Sonarman]

Yeah, the strange thing is that both GMX who will publish in the UK and CDV who will pubish in the US have stated that they wil probably not bee using Starforce in the release version...wierd.

[Hunter]

SF is not hardcoded into Pacific Storm lol. The game is released by Buka in Russia and uses Starforce, but not the demo for d/l. Protection of PS to be released in Europe and other countries depends on CDV and other publishers.

[Sonarman]

The demo which I downloaded and installed defininitely had some form of protection which did look a lot like starforce.

[SUBMAN1]

SF is not hardcoded into Pacific Storm lol. The game is released by Buka in Russia and uses Starforce, but not the demo for d/l. Protection of PS to be released in Europe and other countries depends on CDV and other publishers.

Demo's are natorious for having Starforce. The point is, if you release the demo without starforce, you have released the unencrypted executable, making the cracking of the actual game when released rather easy.

-S

[Hunter]

PS demo exe contains SF library to protect it from cracking but not SF protection installed into your system.