REQ: Stolen trainers to be removed from GCW

[Joe Forster/STA]

Look at it from our point. I don't know about Empire, but although I'm a professional programmer and a hacker myself, I don't know much about today's copy protections or how to train today's games. (I've done that in the past, for DOS games, but not anymore. No time, no interest.) As such, we can only make decisions based on incoming reports. As haven't been using trainers for years - actually, haven't played a game for many months now; it's like sex after the nth X: you can't do it but you don't mind it much anymore either -, I don't even know the groups creating them. Now, how should I know which group is ripping off the work of which group? Scene groups are always sending fuck offs to each other in .nfo files, for real or not so real reasons...

However, as CheatHappens is a well-established maker of trainers, perhaps, a simplified way of reporting thieves should be the best compromise: if you can name us those people/groups who often rip off your own works, those could be banned from GCW. (That's not a promise, just a recommendation that I could forward to Empire, if you agree!)

However, it may well be possible that Empire will request something in change. Let me guess: e.g. a discount on CheatHappens membership for our forum members; special GCW releases of your trainers and/or trainers uploaded to GCW before other sites. Please, consider these, too. (Again, these are only my own ideas, without knowning anything about Empire's standpoint on this whole matter!)

Originally Posted by Caliber

also, it sounds like you are questioning the quality of our trainers?

Hell, no! I cannot question something that I haven't even seen...

[DABhand]

Originally Posted by Joe Forster/STA

However, it may well be possible that Empire will request something in change. Let me guess: e.g. a discount on CheatHappens membership for our forum members; special GCW releases of your trainers and/or trainers uploaded to GCW before other sites. Please, consider these, too. (Again, these are only my own ideas, without knowning anything about Empire's standpoint on this whole matter!)

I am not affilated with both sides in anyway, but thats a bit too much.

Asking for discounts for users here for the promise of removing thieves' files, wow thats pretty dictatorist.

[Joe Forster/STA]

It was just an idea, not an ultimatum. I'm open to other suggestions, too.

We could play a stupid game where I'm the messenger, the CheatHappens people tell me something, I forward them to Empire then, after a week, forward back the answer, too, and this loop goes on endlessly. (And I'm pretty sure Empire won't want to deal with it personally.) To avoid this, I want to see problem closely, understand it and suggest possible solutions beforehands already.