Starforce Petition!

[bevar]

Yes... I boycot all StarForce games. I worked with Starforce twice during and after installations and it's just too much for me to accept.

Buying this game is not an issue... $20.00 is nothing for me. If I like a game I buy it; but as long as this game uses Starforce the only way I will play it is if I have a No-CD crack. That goes for most games I play even though I buy them. Don't like the BS.

If these companies are so worried about protecting thier "Itellectual Rights" then they should copy what Webroot's SPyware or Newsleecher does to protect thier software. Period.

[cool_recep]

waht about the apps like starfucker or the tools like this...Do they make some stuff or they are in vain for starforce v3?

[Killpuppy]

Starforce f**ks me the buyer

therefore I shall f**k Starforce by not buying any more of their s**t

* Not everyone here is a pirate but I feel treated as one when I encounter a Starforce title

[Rayder]

The lawsuits are starting!!!!!

http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=1559

WOOT!

[toshea68]

StarForce should be eliminated from the whole scene, they are nothing but intrusive and damaging!! NEVER will I purchase StarForce games, big up to all those whole crack starforce games!!!

[ikkyu]

Yes, for now on, i will boycott all Starforced games !

I just bought ToCA 3 few days ago and im starting to suffer from miscellaneous issues with my OS. I can't believe that Starforce creators deliberately spread a CRITICALLY DANGEROUS software world wide without receiving any sentence from no tribunal... I mean... WTF ?! Besides Starforce society is very well aware on those matters, everybody is nowadays. Damn it !

I really hope a patch will be available soon, released by Starforce itself, that will allow us to play our games without this insane protection installed. Then, obviously, Starforce should seal his doors forever and shoot his managers in the legs to make them remember what they have done.

[dajunka]

Well it looks like we are winning lads, with the anonouncement that UBI soft are trashing Star**** another publisher is added to the list of 'those who have seen the light'. Starforce does not make more money for pubishers, quite the oposite thanks to all those who stood up and shouted ' I AM BOYCOTTING Star**** so you can shove your new game up your ****'.

[saulob]

yep.. Starforce is gone from Ubisoft....

so.. I hope that Ubisoft release new patchs from the starforce game, without it... like.. KING KONG!!

[Qgal5kap]

Today I decided it was time to do a little spring cleaning on my harddrive,
as it was stuffed with way too much anime :-p

I stuffed a verbatim in my plextor PX-712A and started dragging media into Nero. When I clicked the burn button, I noticed the only speed it could record at was 2.3 X ??? like .. hellloo ? 2.3 x?? what is that ?

At this point I knew exactly what many of you reading this know by now ..

"Staaaaaaaarfooooorce!!!!! 3!!!!!"

I got this nifty piece of "MALWARE" from installing Toca Race Driver 3.

To resolve this issue I simply flashed my drive with a fresh ROM from plextor.
now it burns at 12x again :-D

I was not actually buying into the whole starforce fucking up my hardware idea, but now, as it has happened to me and my mate, both using plextor...

There no longer exists doubt in my mind that starforce does all the bad things people say it does. It's time we, the end users draw the line. We must and cannot accept to be treated this way.

what can I say ... let's sue the remaining publishers for using starforce,
especially codemasters, since they made such a good race game,
and packed it with starforce. On a second note it might be unfair to sue them over money, since using starforce cuts back on sales anyway. I suggest we sue, and demand they do some proper market research, before money hungry bosses and shareholders decide what the proper protection software to be used is. I guess even codemasters should hire me or another throughbred nerd as their "ethical supervisor" not the monopoly man!!!
lol
...

Qgal5kap out ...

Here u can find many answers to your problem with starforce protected games.

Not everyone here is a pirate but I feel treated as one when I encounter a Starforce title

[TameBest]

When playing a game, I'm buying the game ! I'm a Starcraft and Warcraft addict and I bought all originals...
My way of playing is to make an ISO image and play it via Daemon tools. The reason is CDs and DVDs suffer much too much !
Last week I bought the "Move2Play" game (an Eyetoy like for PC) and detected a Starforce 3 protection on it :-(
My kids are 9 and 3 years old... they aren't carefull enough which means they are screwing games sometimes.
2 weeks ago, my 3 years old son came to me with my original "Toy Story 2" DVD... Totally SCREWED by himself: "it doesn't work dad !" (of course, he just broke it in 2 parts !)
With Starforce 3 (and above), it seems there is NO possibility for a backup :-(
This was the ONE AND ONLY Starforce protected game I ever bought !
This will be my way of boycotting Starforce in the future...
Just because I cannot possibly be present each tims my son will play on the computer...

[pendragon361]

With all due respect to the author of this post..the only people haveing issues with starforce are the ones with illegal copys....my advice is to buy the frigging game if you like it and quit bitching !

[Grumpy]

@pendragon361

..the only people haveing issues with starforce are the ones with illegal copys....

Not true at all!! You obviously have no idea! Please keep your opinions to yourself! No unfounnded accusations!

[XdaywalkerX]

Originally Posted by Qgal5kap

I stuffed a verbatim in my plextor PX-712A and started dragging media into Nero. When I clicked the burn button, I noticed the only speed it could record at was 2.3 X ??? like .. hellloo ? 2.3 x?? what is that ?

At this point I knew exactly what many of you reading this know by now ..

"Staaaaaaaarfooooorce!!!!! 3!!!!!"

same problem here... and YES - it's because starforce (after driver cleaning all works fine again)

[Gil]

Yes, me too boycotting Starforce games as well.