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Originally Posted by Neal Stevens
I don't know what the percentages here are, but you can bet there are people here who play, yes, even Silent Hunter games without buying. When SH4 came out with its secret bootleg ID system, where illegal copies would have a crew with no eyes and crew chanting mysterious numbers, we had a LOT of people posting about it.  |
Actually, that's really annoyed me. I had the crew with no eyes problem and I had a legitimate copy of SH4, I'll post you the receipt from Feb 2007 if you don't believe me
. I'll tell you another thing - that particular bit of misinformation caused a lot of GENUINE PURCHASERS to be told to F off and stop being a pirate. Obviously they didn't like that very much, so how many new members did the community lose from that?
OK, now if having no eyes WAS a copy protection system, then what an
amazingly stupid bug to let through as well. Or perhaps it was a buggy protection system? Or, perhaps having no eyes at all was the protection system and intermittently not having the eyes was a bug? You can't have a pirate version intermittently can you?