A real solution to the StarF**k virus for everyone.

[CrossWire]

Originally Posted by Radar911

Boycotts might have worked a hundred years ago, but in today's corporate society they are obsolete. I don't think the 20 or so people in this topic are going to do anything about StarForce by not bying their products, it won't even be noticeable on the sale figures. Not even thousand people would be able to stop SF, sorry to say.

Ask yourself if what you are trying to achieve will have any effect, and be realistic about what you think.

Woooooooooo! negative vibes man, negative vibes, we are all doomed.

[Grumpy]

Everyone 'one' person from these forums tells 'five' friends about the intrusive Starforce Protection! Every one of those 'five' tells another 'five' of their friends and so on and so on! It will take time but it can happen?
I once read somewhere on these forums that quite obviously the protection makers do scan forums like these! They will see that people dont like the idea of the protection being so intrusive! But still they will not change what they are doing!
But, just like everything these days, someone will take this whole intrusive idea into a court room! Then you may see some sort of change?
The change has to start somewhere, one voice needs to grow into two, the two into four and from there it just keeps growing untill those voices together become very loud!
Surely as many more people, (even the ones who know nothing about protections etc) will start experiencing problems with their computers thru Starforce. They may not know at the time what is the cause of the problems!
But they to will either go to the place of purchase or even search the internet and they will be told or discover it is actually Starforce which is causing them all the troubles!
Then slowly, but surely, there will be many more people boycotting Starforce games!
It may take 1 year it may take 5 years, it may be quicker it may longer? But it will happen! Many more will join the idea of either boycotting Starforce games or those people will just go and buy a console machine!
Lets band together and turn this thread into a thread which has the 180 000 views! Even better let this thread grow into one which reaches 1 million views! Then and only then may we see some sort of protection that will do what it is meant to do and that is to protect the game! Not invade our systems and be destructive! That in my opinion borders on being a virus!!

[CrossWire]

Bravo Grumpy, very well said.

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Here’s a bit of info for you. X2 the threat, the Euro version, having the SF virus, Egosoft the developers where asked by the publishers Quicksilver to remove the protection from the game, and they have. You can now download a unprotected exe file from the Egosoft web site, X2 is now completely unprotected.
Now, could it be that the boycotting and complaints are having more of a effect than we know.

[DABhand]

Funny that since its publishers who put on the protections as they are the ones that distribute the game, packaging etc.

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Originally Posted by DABhand

Funny that since its publishers who put on the protections as they are the ones that distribute the game, packaging etc.

Yer it is isn’t it? Maybe they just give the .exe which, btw, is Multilanguage to Egosoft to distribute, dunno really, all I know is it's there and ready for D/L and "Burnit" one of the Devs said that they where asked by the publishers to remove the protection.

And why would a publisher remove the protection from a game over a year old unless, unless he had canceled his contract with the makers of SF.