OT: My worst nightmare... ever!

[DarkLeftos]

It's June 7th, and I'm walking towards my school for that damn Religion exam. As I walk and walk and walk, my eyes are caught by a glistening package on the local game store...

How could I ever have forgotten about it?

San Andreas is released today! (Well, not actually today, today's June 4th, but in my dream... oh anyway, you understand...)

My mouth starts drooling, I get dizzy and start to walk strange... I walk inside the store all zombie like, walking towards to the beautiful lady behind the counter.

"Gimme S... S... San Andreas, NOW!"

She looks over to me terrified, and grabs a copy of the game from the stool behind her, and hands it to me without second thought... I give my 50 euros and run back home. I boot up my computer and see Windows Server 2003 welcoming me once again.

I put the DVD in, install and after a good 5 minutes, I'm on the magical moment, ready to double-click on the desktop icon the kind install has just created.

And just as I do so, a rectangular dark screen pops up, saying...

"The StarForce anti-piracy system has just been installed on your computer, and a restart is required... Reboot now?"

"NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!" I scream, my body weakening as I fall to my knees and start to cry, not knowing what's worse... That another game will never get a chance to be cracked, or that my hospital-clean install of Windows 2003 has just been infected with the worst virus ever to hit gamers...?




Thank god I woke up. Don't wanna jinx it, but it's just 3 days before official release, and I fear the worst.


P.S. Sorry for the off-topic. I know I'm not the only one fearing that mostly expected games are going to be infected as well.

EDIT: Look below for the GTA:SA being released with StarForce rumors.

[packrich]

Allways, Allways, take an Image backup of the working partition BEFORE adding
a new game or large program.

Thats how I sleep with good dreams.

Regards
Phil

[Grumpy]

@Dark Leftos
Well I for one truly hope your dream doesnt come true!

@PackRich
Yes I would be lost without my ghost images. Since I for one had major problems with the Starforce Protection, I always create a ghost image before installing a new game. Luckily I had ghost images from before my system ever came in contact with a Starforce game! After installing a starforce game i found a lot of my games would not even autoplay, my drives where reading the disc names after the disc had been ejected, I had programs no longer working properly, I had CD's/DVD's which would not eject, I had all sorts of problems!!
But as soon as I ghosted back to before Starforce all my problems magically disappeared!
Regardless I how much any future games get hyped up I will not be installing them if they have the Starforce virus!

[acal3000]

I don't think it will be protected by starforce. Take Two Interactive generally uses Secure Rom protection on their games

Hi DarkLeftos I wan´t to thank u for your great short story. I woke up this morning and read your post and laughed half an hour . Thank u so much!!! More posts like yours are appreciated !!!

[DarkLeftos]

http://filesharingtalk.com/vb3/showt...8&page=9&pp=10

As seen above, if the post is true, San Andreas is supplied with StarForce 3.4.90.666...

Although noticing the 666 revision number, I'd bet is a hoax.