SHIV Protection system?

TDK1044 · 08-31-06, 06:16 PM

Sure, Neal, but you're talking about the kind of 'shoot em up' games which are targeted at the largest demographic for game sales, males aged 16 to 30. My posting specifies Silent Hunter 3 and Silent Hunter 4, not the kind of nonsense that the 16 to 30 demographic would be out there buying. Most of the 'shoot em up' crowd wouldn't be seen dead with a Silent Hunter game.

The thieves who would work around the clock cracking the 'shoot em up' games do so because of the rewards that are out there because of the massive interest in acquiring those games, but the return on a world war 2 sub sim is going to be so minimal as to be hardly worth it. I think cracking SH3 was a lot more to do with giving Starforce the bird than anything else, and the reason most of the people who got SH3 did so legally had nothing to do with "because it had very strong copyprotection"....Starforce was a joke, the worst of both worlds... easy to crack and very intrusive on your system. I know somebody who purchased SH3 ( he showed me the receipt) and then cracked it for the hell of it because he hated Starforce. it took him 3 days. He's still running Silent Hunter 3 with no Starforce, and he has no intention at all of selling pirate copies of the game. His reason for the hack...In his words "I'm not having that s**t on my computer" I don't condone what he did, and I would never do it, but I sure understand it.

I hope that if we do get SH4 with copyprotection, it's a much better product than Starforce.

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08-31-06, 06:16 PM	#15
TDK1044 Ocean Warrior Join Date: Mar 2005 Location: Georgia, USA Posts: 2,674 Downloads: 25 Uploads: 0	Sure, Neal, but you're talking about the kind of 'shoot em up' games which are targeted at the largest demographic for game sales, males aged 16 to 30. My posting specifies Silent Hunter 3 and Silent Hunter 4, not the kind of nonsense that the 16 to 30 demographic would be out there buying. Most of the 'shoot em up' crowd wouldn't be seen dead with a Silent Hunter game. The thieves who would work around the clock cracking the 'shoot em up' games do so because of the rewards that are out there because of the massive interest in acquiring those games, but the return on a world war 2 sub sim is going to be so minimal as to be hardly worth it. I think cracking SH3 was a lot more to do with giving Starforce the bird than anything else, and the reason most of the people who got SH3 did so legally had nothing to do with "because it had very strong copyprotection"....Starforce was a joke, the worst of both worlds... easy to crack and very intrusive on your system. I know somebody who purchased SH3 ( he showed me the receipt) and then cracked it for the hell of it because he hated Starforce. it took him 3 days. He's still running Silent Hunter 3 with no Starforce, and he has no intention at all of selling pirate copies of the game. His reason for the hack...In his words "I'm not having that s**t on my computer" I don't condone what he did, and I would never do it, but I sure understand it. I hope that if we do get SH4 with copyprotection, it's a much better product than Starforce.