Quote:
|
Originally Posted by Joe Forster/STA
Hi ez0469,
An inherent problem with your solution is the following...
Now you buy the game, install it on your PC, it gets "activated", meaning that particular copy can be played on and only on your PC. (I'm not sure if you were saying if the installation or the "automatic backup CD" has your hardware identification burnt into it... but it doesn't matter anyway.)
A few months later you upgrade your PC. What do you do now? You gotta contact the game publisher again, to have your installation and/or backup CD (re)activated for your new hardware config. Well, just a bit of a pain in the @ss.
But what if you want to play the game again, say, five years later? You may have replaced all components in your PC by then. Perhaps, there's a very different operating system (new Windows; Linux; whatever) installed so you have to try the game in a virtual machine emulator (with the older Windows installed and some specific hardware config emulated). The game will not run and, even if the game publisher still exists, they won't help you anymore...
So, now you're left with a completely unusable original CD, backup CD and installed game. Even if your game is a retail version, not limited in the time of usage, number of installations etc. The next step? Finding a no-CD patch. 
Joe |
Your Potential Problem is Creditable For sure. But I am not sure about you people but when I install new hardware anyway I have reformted my PC anyway and would continue to install the software and register again anyway. So that Problem to people that install upgrades well your Stupid for not reinstalling the OS for clean installs with little to troubleshoot if something should go wrong. Yeah Sure, not all people practise this, I know. What is potentially confusing is about why you woul dhave to reinstall the Cracks that are legit. The Comparisons of the Hardware ID's would hold Little if any comparison to the Fix. only to be used while Obtaining the Fix. I believe I stated that thought already. No Big deal if and when it does happen, I am sure that there are ways Around your thought.... You make it out to be a frustrating issue when in the end probably wouldn't be that picky...
Don't you all know that the Current Cracks available are technically not Legal anyway!! This is a Solution to allow them and to not Get busted for using them if for some strange reason the manufacturer comes after you {{{Unlikely but posible}}}....