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The original Company of Heroes and War40k: Dark Crusade had no protection. THQ removed the protection on the War40k: Dawn Of War and Winter Assault.
Everyone was optimistical and thought that THQ was heading in the right direction. A few changes in management later and they've made the Titan Quest flop, blamed everybody else on the product's poor security(tha game leaked months before release, and the Immortal Throne expansion followed shortly). They've put some nasty triggers in the original game, but those were poorly implemented, so ocasionally apperared to people who actually bought the game. When Iron Lore Studios closed, the THQ manager blamed everyone from the press to the customers in a rather unpleasant mode(hell he even blamed the PC component developpers). At the date COH: OF was released with that protection and War40k: DOW - Soulstorm followed. But if for COH :OF, chances are they will manage to fix the game balance (from what I hear, everyone considers that the MP part of the COH expansion is broken, unbalanced), Soulstorm was a mess, as the game wasn't developped by Relic, but by the already deceased Iron Lore. And Relic was left with a broken puzzle. Which is almost impossible to figure out, as Relic never worked on that expansion.
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