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Sonarman · 02-23-06, 04:58 AM

"I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him;
The evil that men do lives after them,
The good is oft interréd with their bones"

Note that I did use the word "dreaded" in my original post I hate it as much as you guys. Installing SH3 caused my new PC to go to a "blue screen of death" each reboot which can only be cleared by going to safe-mode and back out again.

Although... I had no problems whatsoever with the similarly Starforce enabled Enigma Rising Tide and Virtual Skipper III which were installed months prior to SH3. Maybe there is something wrong with the implementation of SF in SH3 or the version used is unstable?

I agree that something needs to be done about piracy and perhaps the best solution is to cut the high street shops out of the loop and sell direct to the public. That way prices could be reduced: (shops and distribution take about 70% of a games retail value), the games could be constantly updated and grow, licenses could be monitored and illegal usage stopped at source.

But... I'm not sure we are ready for that yet, we still like our printed manuals, box and cd to much to let go of them and are still a bit paranoid about companies going belly up (see all the worries about Distant Guns). Then there is the issue of all those people working in all those stores, do we really just can them like that?

There are two sides to every story... our lives are full of dilemma!

02-23-06, 04:58 AM	#12
Sonarman The Old Man Join Date: Mar 2002 Location: Ayr,Scotland,UK Posts: 1,393 Downloads: 79 Uploads: 0	"I come to bury Caesar, not to praise him; The evil that men do lives after them, The good is oft interréd with their bones" Note that I did use the word "dreaded" in my original post I hate it as much as you guys. Installing SH3 caused my new PC to go to a "blue screen of death" each reboot which can only be cleared by going to safe-mode and back out again. Although... I had no problems whatsoever with the similarly Starforce enabled Enigma Rising Tide and Virtual Skipper III which were installed months prior to SH3. Maybe there is something wrong with the implementation of SF in SH3 or the version used is unstable? I agree that something needs to be done about piracy and perhaps the best solution is to cut the high street shops out of the loop and sell direct to the public. That way prices could be reduced: (shops and distribution take about 70% of a games retail value), the games could be constantly updated and grow, licenses could be monitored and illegal usage stopped at source. But... I'm not sure we are ready for that yet, we still like our printed manuals, box and cd to much to let go of them and are still a bit paranoid about companies going belly up (see all the worries about Distant Guns). Then there is the issue of all those people working in all those stores, do we really just can them like that? There are two sides to every story... our lives are full of dilemma!