OT: Jedi Academy - the genuine release vs Warez

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JEDI ACADEMY
I've been wondering for a while now what the hell is going on with this game.

Everyone seems to have played it - there isn even a nocd patch hosted by GCW. As the release date is 17th sept what cd does this cracck disable the need for?

I know it is relatively easy to obtain an illlegal download of the leeked gold version of the game, but why would this download require cd copy protection.

There must be many people like myself who are eagerly waiting for the official release but are frustrated by the rest of the gaming comunity already discussing it in the gaming forums.

Surely Lucasarts should release the game ASAP before everyone has it - coz sales are gonna suck & be artificially low come the 17th.

I have already petitioned Lucasarts to get the game into stores & would like to ask others to do the same.

Can ANYONE explain the actions of lucasarts witholding the game for so long after going Gold. They must know how quick off the mark the pirates are. Are they really so naive as to not know there are thousands of people already playing and distributing a product they put much work into, free of charge.

Is it any wonder game prices are so high - someone always has to pay. And it's people like me & many of you who are paying so some dumb pirate kid can play this game right at this moment, while we sit & wait in support of game development teams.

I dont have a problem with no-cd cracks. Indeed I use them all the time for my legit games. And know that some warez teams are often instrumental in cracking copy prot. But piracy is getting wildly out of hand and I would like to ask all of you with any interest in this game to help get it in stores for Lucas and Raven Softwares own sake as well as our enjoyment.

I dont have the JediAcademy sopport mail link to hand but hope someone could post it. You can start at WWW.LucasArts.com/JediAcademy or http://support.lucasarts.com

Thank you for reading this post, while I know it is slightly off topic it is still relevant to this community

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