Starforce Petition!

[Dipangshu]

ok good friend Joe, some people love to call the spade a spade.

want to know about starforce 3.4.65. how it works.
Can any body highlight it?

[jholybigjesus]

Add bet on soldier to the list.

[star4ce]

ive got an ORIGINAL The Suffering:Ties That Bind game and this crap tells me i dont have cd in drive ,cause they dont tested this **** on my LG cd-rw boycott this f****** ****

[Crayzee_Ivan]

@Grumpy: Your petition convinced me to register at fileforums, add that to your "Good deed for the day" list

Petition signed.

BTW, why is this still not a sticky?

[wildwing]

games with sf..
ehh
starforce is crackable whene its witout VM
if this one is with VM .. isnt crackable.. ( crackable but VERY HARD)

heh sorry for my eng..

[Nicodemus_27]

Hi guyz and galz.

Just adding my tuppence.

I work in support IT for many homes and companies. Just recently however, I have found a distubingly large number of people who cannot get their games to work. Apart from Xmas being round the corner , I simply do not and cannot afford the resources to advise everyone who has brought one of the games with SF on it to take it back. several companies have refused to do this for some people.

http://new.petitiononline.com/starfarc/petition.html.

This is an online petition that I will present to the company on 25th December. A nice Xmas Present.

Of course, it will ask for your email but Hotmail is quite kewl nowadays! And besides, we're legal and just hacked orf with this incompetence

Out of interest I have now had 23 calls regarding this so, called software! I rue the day PC world set up nearby.

http://www.star-force.com/protection.phtml?c=83&id=657
PC Magazine Russian edition??

Friends, gamers, countrymen, lend me your emails.

Dulce et decorum est.....................

[ofabius]

this link of petition doesn't work!!

[Nicodemus_27]

sorry, the previous link is an activation one!

Here is the proper one:

http://www.petitiononline.com/starfarc/

Thanks. Let's make it huge.

[wildwing]

damn same

[bismarck]

I also signed here just becouse of this thread & here are my thoughts

I bought Codename Panzers: Phase 2 as I own the Phase 1 and when install it on my pc, start it, then STARFORCE install it self and want to reboot. So I did that. Then wanting a dvd to play. And no matter what I did I couldnt get the game work (reinstall win, it works at my neighbour) so after 4 days I returned it to the store. Than I look at some forums and there is a lot of compatibility problems with starforce and a lot of complains. PETITION SIGNED!

And there is this thing with original games that you must have a cd/dvd in your cd/dvd rom to play the game. What a stupidity. Anyone have a software like Office, Acdsee, Nero etc... that would requaire a cd/dvd to use program. What would be like if Nero would give u a pop-up "Please insert Nero 7 Install CD in your burner to start the program" LOL following by "If you don't have another burner in your PC please go and buy your second burner and THANK YOU for buying this software"

BTW:Bill Gates please if you read this make windows need to use a cd in order to run! ))

[Andrewoz]

Abbie's idea that a 1-click EULA gives legal protection is flawed. There are several ways you could successfully argue that away in court. Wat protects publishers isd the vast disparity in resources between themselves and end-users.
Lack of informed consent kills the EULA, unless it specifically lists what it is doing wrt to planting drivers and lists all known/reportewd issues with them.
As far as the EULA principle itself, if you can demonstrate that the "average" person scrolls down and agrees without reading, to the satisfaction of the court, the the EULA concept is out the window, even if the info is in there.
Of course, this is all moot until someone challenges it in court. Any idle rich want a hobby-cause?

Wow. Great to see this. I purchased SCCT Collector's Edition and installed the game, this is when it came out. At the time I wasn't aware of Starforce, but thanks to forms and sites like these, I am now.

While looking on the ubi forms, I came across a sticky called 'Starforce and Solutions'. In this there is some admission to SF causing problems with certain applications and hardware. But there were three things that irritated me.

1) Problems with old drivers; update your firmware. Yeah and what if there isn't an update? Buy a new CD/DVD? Not likely, unless it was rendered useless, which was in my case, my LITE-ON DVD/RW (can't remember the rest) was /w with the latest and last firmware available :\

2) ..."Alc0hol 120%
DAEMON Tools
Clone CD
Nero (Disabled by Default)

If you experience issues with running the game disabling these applications can help."
The key words. -CAN HELP

3) The thread is closed. So they are right and you are wrong. Upon looking a little further in to the forms. They basically don't want to hear anything negative about their beloved SF virus/trojan.. what have you.

The topic can be found here: http://forums.ubi.com/groupee/forums...1/m/6811067603

So. What else can we do? Yes, for one, stop buying SF games. Make more people aware. Get the attention of someone with $$$ that cares enough to support our cause. From the ubi form, it appears obvious that they don't care if your system gets trashed and only supply very lame solutions.

[blackjjjack]

But I hope that wont be needed much longer. Sony will be punished for what they did by installing background software on our systems and I hope the same will happen to those starforce devellopers. I mean: some stupid EULA does NOT give the right to grap control over our computers.
There IS a reason why the big publicers like EA, Rockstar and do NOT use starforce. And I just hope that other companies will follow those good examples.

[Joe Forster/STA]

The article at http://forums.ubi.com/groupee/forums...1/m/6811067603 fails to mention the following:
- How to "disable" virtual CD/DVD emulators? Uninstalling them to be able to play a game is not an acceptable solution; it's too much of a hassle, especially, that the settings, making their usage more comfortable, are also lost.
- Unlike the Starforce drive, the SecuROM 7 driver doesn't run all the time, therefore, it can't mess with your system when not playing games.

[asdfasf]

i played games when i was younger , now i dont have much time for it but when i find some useless free time i always like to spend it playing some game...there games starts...friend brought me around 10 DVDs with games and he left...the problem was that it was the first time after 2-3 years that i actually started to install some new games on my pc ( only game i play is q3 cuz i am pro-gamer :F ) and when i saw one file around 2.5 gb for quake4 and some strange files i was like WTF !?!?11 i called him immediatly and he tells me : "just dl daemon tools or alcohol , latest versions" i said ok and i did that...i instaled COD2 , installed q4..everything worked, everything was just fine...i told him also to get me some game for my 10 year old lil sister and it was I-NINJA, i tried to install it..i did...but no-cd error occured, first i thought there is some crack or something but no...then i phoned him and he tells me he dunno he was just dling =)) then i started google search for some solutions and i ended up here...now my lil sis is whining and my hands are tied up...i am saying guys that you have my full support just dunno where to sign that petition =)