Starforce Petition!

[leezer3]

@ Nerva- Would you define a virus as something that interferes with your proper and legal operation of your PC (IE. Busts SATA dvd drives?)
That is precisely what Starforce does- Also, they caused my PC to permantly BSOD to the extent of a FDISK- Tech support not interested!

I rest my case.

-Leezer-

[thebluegr]

@10823berlin:

Game demos DO give a good idea about what the game is about. Each game takes years and a group of programmers to make, something which you obviously don't respect. I'm not saying that I have bought everything that's installed on my PC, but I have bought a lot of software titles that I really enjoyed playing (Splinter Cell 1-3, Need For Speed Underground 1-2, Far Cry, Half Life 2 to name a few). Movies "generate some fun for very little time" as well, but I do go to the cinema. You can't just pretend to be poor, I've been a student, I've worked at the same time and still had money to go to the movies once per month and to buy a good game every 1-2 months.

As for game testing, you can always get the demo from a magazine or from the company's site, and yes that's usually more than enough to see what the game looks like. And you can still rent games from a video club. And in UK, you can return a product you didn't like (game, movie or music CD)...

Finally: nobody said that you HAVE to buy EVERY new game or movie that comes out. Noone forces you to do so. You just buy the stuff you like. That's why demos and trailers exist...

[Buck Rogers]

The key to end this war?

1) produce good quality games;
Money doesn't grow on trees so develop good games and
you have my bucks! otherwise go harvesting carrots!
Thats why game developers should have their respective public forum to ask customers what they want from the new incoming game, maybe even using them as beta testers.

2) lower the price (20 euros):
The price will be lower enought to be stupid to dwl a warez version, so the customers of original game will grow and no protection will be needed at all! we are about 60 million people around the world, get only 1 milions x 20 dollars=20 millions dollars!!! is enought for writing a game? (no other costs see below)

3) buy online and download it:
No more intermediaries between developers and customers, if a game could be sell at 20 euro, at the shelves cost 3 times more!! so you can be able to download a PERSONALIZED copy of the game, in your language and with an embed mention to who is the owner of such game (e.g.: this copy of the game belongs to etc etc, thanx for buying etc etc) let people customize what they purchase, let it be unique!

4) I really think that is my right to try-before-buy, so release ALWAYS a fully enjoyable demo version of the game (ID software docet!) before the final game, i have to know if the game is REALLY as CoOL as shown in the magazines or in the internet gaming site reviews.

but this will never happens, there is a weird project.. and al this projects leads to the same reason.. MONEY!

Antivirus: they are free.. you can use it freely but you know why? because in the future you will pay for it for sure!

antispam: same as above

Internet Game servers browsers: same as above

cheats website: same as above

and so on..

even the cracking tools have a cost! so why this mess should end? naaa... too many people earn easy money...
and my opinions is useless.. just like yours.

[DABhand]

1. They do this already, and most publishers/developers do have beta testers.

2. Even if the game was $5 people will still steal/download the games, cause they are fat greedy feckers.

3. A good option, for the broadband people, people with 56k may miss out. But, then comes the Steam idea, they would have to protect the game via a steam like app, or else someone will get the game and sell to pals for $5 so they can play it.

[whoeverxxx]

I feel Starforce ruined one of my Sata drives in my raid0 array a while back on this computer. I've heard that this can happen if you have raided drives but I have no way to prove this is what happened to my drive. The drives were just a few months old and after I installed the game called Scrapland, the problems started and then one of the drives developed unrecoverable errors and turned to scrap just like the name of the game.

[LoxHazard]

Originally Posted by whoeverxxx

I feel Starforce ruined one of my Sata drives in my raid0 array a while back on this computer. I've heard that this can happen if you have raided drives but I have no way to prove this is what happened to my drive. The drives were just a few months old and after I installed the game called Scrapland, the problems started and then one of the drives developed unrecoverable errors and turned to scrap just like the name of the game.

There are more real cases with starforce games how yours. With raid 0 and raid 5 too, with important consequences, unrecovered and data lost.

Some people continue buying starforce games without preocupation, ok, they chosen their way. Luck for them.

[DUKE_NUKEM]

@ DABhand

I don't think that, if ALL gamez had low prices, people would continue to download them. I feel sick when I see dl links to gamez which cost 15 euros, but I understand (NOT justify) the motives of those who download games which cost 50-60 euros. There are too many games, too much similar, nobody obliges us to buy everything, it's true, but if a game would last one month (= approx 30-45 hours), 40 euros (not 50 anyway) would be an honest price. 90% of games last max. 20 hours, it's not possible to include in this type of considerations the online gaming 'cause it's not a "quality" of the game, it's a mere possibility. However piracy is not so dangerous as they want us to believe, it hurts small software houses leading them to give up but the big ones (EA, Ubisoft and so on) still have big income as they are able to "recycle" their preceiding gamez without offering any of really "new". So don't worry, I don't think they will ever know what is poverty....