Starforce Petition!

[dajunka]

Here's I little more information on starforce and how it effects you, handy for those who would like to know more.
http://www.neoseeker.com/forums/inde...hread&t=526623

[ashleymalpas]

I got that p*****d of with this crap that i just emailed star force telling them what i think about it. Message below

I am writing to complain about your so called Starforce V3 protection, it is the biggest pile of B*** S*** to ever be called a copy protection. How can this be classed as a suitable copy protection when all it does is F*** UP your PC. Since installing Starforce V3 games, ive had nothing but system problems. But amazingly they all disapeared after using sfclean. Like many others I certainly wont be buying any products with this bag of s*** on it. Isn't this protection Illegal? as it totally f***s with your system. If your going to make a copy protection at least make it so it works without f***ing up your PC!

Does Anybody think they'll reply :-D

[Monty Burns]

Surely, they'll reply

The "creators" of starforce are not the problem. If a game is protected with starforce, they have already earned their money....no matter if customers buy the game or not.
If sf games remain in the shelves, developers will start thinking about it (okay, in fact they don't, cos they don't give a ****ing **** about customers as long as there are enough idiots buying their crap).

The only chance of stopping starforce, is boycotting it. But this will never happen.....at least not to a degree which would be remarkable....

[coffin filler]

Ahhh the beloved star force. Another moan and groan. and why not ?. Well im happy to say that i have not installed ANY starforce protected games on my PC and thats compleatly down to the info i am privy to here as a fileforum member. Its thanks to this place i have not made the mistake so many other ppl have made. I buy all my games and i also back EVERY SINGLE one of them up and i refuse to buy a game that once installed will fu(k up my chances of backing up other non starforce protected games as well as the genral well being of my PC. I dont have anything against a copy protection that makes backing up one of my original disks hard and a challange but what i do object to is having a so called copyprotection compleatly screwing with my PC and all backing up procedures that i will attempt in the future. My thanks go out to GCW F/F. Also thanks for the link that you sent me a while back Grumpy in a PM to the starforce info.

Ohh and yes i will continue to boycott any starforce protected game in the future. I wish enough of us would do the same and if the numbers got big enough dev's/publishers would realize but in reality thats not gonna happen. The worst thing i have had to deal with (as an avid gamer) is not having had the experience of "Splinter Cell 3. C.T" . Its my only regrett to not allowing any SF protected game on my PC.

[nerva]

0_o
who pays you guys? easy cracking macrovision or the same securom?
the most content from varios forums that you quote here taking from StarForceNightMare readme. But we know (just look at SCCT results) that SF succesfuly beat SFN with out any system troubles. More than 100000 users, succesfuly play the game.
You thread one big LoL for ppl who knows...

[Monty Burns]

Now, we know !

Thank you for enlightening all the "small minded" kids here......

[The-S-Owl]

Originally Posted by nerva

0_o
who pays you guys? easy cracking macrovision or the same securom?
the most content from varios forums that you quote here taking from StarForceNightMare readme. But we know (just look at SCCT results) that SF succesfuly beat SFN with out any system troubles. More than 100000 users, succesfuly play the game.
You thread one big LoL for ppl who knows...

I begin to believe that you are one of the Starforce developers who tries to defend your own crap

[dajunka]

Originally Posted by Monty Burns

The only chance of stopping starforce, is boycotting it. But this will never happen.....at least not to a degree which would be remarkable....

Sorry my friend but it's already happening surf the game forums/sites. This is the type of war that as a consumer you LOSE, but as consumer's you definitely shall WIN.

[coffin filler]

Originally Posted by dajunka

Sorry my friend but it's already happening surf the game forums/sites. This is the type of war that as a consumer you LOSE, but as consumer's you definitely shall WIN.

Well we can live in hope but hope is all we have and will ever have if there isnt a solution found. (which dosent look promising). I also belive (even though i dont and will never own a SF protected game) that we are on loosing side. There will never be enough people who will not buy anymore or diss-continue buying SF protected games and lets be realistic unless a big ammount of revenue stops going to devs etc then SF will continue. Its down to £s and the devs,pubs,etc arnt loosing enough of it for them to concider implementing "other" protection's. (IMO) Why would they cause lets face it it dose what it says on the tin (and plenty more besides) and unless there were a lawsuit of somekind (due to the system instabilities etc etc etc SF can cause) then i belive its here to stay

SF is not a protection its a damm virus! (As Grumpy and so many others have stated)

[MasterYoda34]

If game developers are going to use starforce they NEED to AT LEAST have a pop up box to confim before install. And it should state that it can cause problems on some systems.

I have been reading about all the problems that people have been having with StarForce for a while now, but I never thought anything would happen to me. Well now my system has crashed a couple of times recently and before I UNKNOWINGLY installed StarForce, crashes were extremely rare for me. And one time when I double clicked on one of my CD Drives in My Computer it asked me what program I wanted to use to open it. WTF. Also, BlindWrite seems incapable of making images now. I MOST CERTAINLY will not be buying any starforce protected games anymore.

[dajunka]

Originally Posted by MasterYoda34

If game developers are going to use starforce they NEED to AT LEAST have a pop up box to confim before install. And it should state that it can cause problems on some systems.

I have been reading about all the problems that people have been having with StarForce for a while now, but I never thought anything would happen to me. Well now my system has crashed a couple of times recently and before I UNKNOWINGLY installed StarForce, crashes were extremely rare for me. And one time when I double clicked on one of my CD Drives in My Computer it asked me what program I wanted to use to open it. WTF. Also, BlindWrite seems incapable of making images now. I MOST CERTAINLY will not be buying any starforce protected games anymore.

Yerr, hope is a major player here, hope that SF become totally un hip and anti social, hope that main line publishers see the light, hope that some dude take some publisher to court over SF and wins, hope that SF will once and for all be cracked.

[chaosmaster]

Originally Posted by MasterYoda34

If game developers are going to use starforce they NEED to AT LEAST have a pop up box to confim before install. And it should state that it can cause problems on some systems.

I think it is useless, if they build in a pop up box because its too late if you see it before installing, that the game has SF! Then you cant bring it back to store because you have already opened the packing! It shold be placed somewhere on the cover!