TippeX, there 's only 1 'honest customer' (as you say) complaint about the FIFA crack but after 2 posts, he realize it doesn't requires the crack to play the game. Also, you must be used to "suffer" and now you don't feel the pain
I feel sorry for your fingers, but you should know there are keys on the keyboard that hurts
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I don't buy a game based on what protection it has/hasn't cause never get trouble with it.
If a game is good (based on previews, hands-on, reviews) I buy it.
If the game doesn't has good reviews I try it and then I decide to buy it or not based on experience.
The fact is, after I install a game I only uninstall it when am tired from it. If I burn all the activations I still can use the crack to keep playing.
Games like NFS, C&C, FIFA has enough replay value to keep me playing more off-line than on-line. If the game gets cheap and I think it worth, then I buy a new license.
And there is another thing: I have the whole NFS collection. The 5 activation limit will never be reached because in 2010 a new NFS will come out and I'll buy it. So will happens with C&C (I hope
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