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[WhiteKnight77]

Ubi will no longer use Starforce for any future game it publishes. This was a wise decision for them as people were not wanting to purchase games with it in use. I had one SF protected game returned already, unopened of course. Now we can all look forward to enjoying Ubi published games again.

[Yen Lo]

Hey WK, wassuppers? good to see you around again hows that job treating ya? Did you get that new comp yet?
I never had a prob with starfarce, but it sounds evil as heck.

[Major_A]

Great news for people like me. I avoided several of their titles based on this one fact. Hopefully they'll re-release SC:CT with the new protection, presumebly SecureROM, so I can go buy it.

[reggo]

Originally posted by Major_A:
Great news for people like me. I avoided several of their titles based on this one fact.

I wanted to play 'Silent Hunter III' like hell, but decided not to buy it because of the SF BS.

At last, they took a good decision for a change!

Now, let's see if they can make a good R6...

[WhiteKnight77]

Originally posted by Yen Lo:
Hey WK, wassuppers? good to see you around again hows that job treating ya? Did you get that new comp yet?

The new job is going great. Some long hours I tell ya. We have a break for a few days, but to be honest, I am a bit antsy to get back to work even if it means having to get up at 5 or 5:30 AM again.. No, I have not been able to get the new comp yet.

For the record, I wanted SC:CT and it had already been purchased, but I had it returned unopened due to SF.

[Cogoni]

Lol i wonder what copy protection they will use now.... Secure rom? Thats a joke. Starforce is more effective, if there loosing sales because of starforce then it must be because starforce is preventing people from cracking the game, not that the software is messing wtih there system. For some...

[RAZE_672]

I'm not a hacker and won't buy a starforce game.

Great news!

[WhiteKnight77]

Originally posted by Cogoni:
Lol i wonder what copy protection they will use now.... Secure rom? Thats a joke. Starforce is more effective, if there loosing sales because of starforce then it must be because starforce is preventing people from cracking the game, not that the software is messing wtih there system. For some...

Have you even been following what is going on with Ubi and SF? There has been a class action lawsuit filed in California against Ubi for using SF. Ubisoft Complaint details the reasons the whys behind the lawsuit. This is probably the biggest reason why Ubi is no longer going to use SF. Fans on the forums here have also made their displeasure at Ubi using SF (along with those who have had their hardware damaged after installing games published by Ubi with SF) for CP.

Here is something else you may have forgotten. Sony got blasted for installing CP without the users knowledge last fall by the Department of Homeland Security. Does it make sense for Ubi to continue to do the same thing?

[Major_A]

I've seen countless people on various forums saying that StarForce nuked their box. There have even been people saying that it nuked their RW drives. That is not software, if you burner stops working it's now a hardware issue. On top of this a few weeks ago StarForce released a fake website that claimed based on this website's "independent" study that StarForce was great and there are no consequences. This company is shameful at best, the real term I'd describe them as can't be said here. I'd put StarForce in the same breath as GAIN, CWS, and any other spyware out there.

[DayGlow]

Originally posted by Major_A:
Great news for people like me. I avoided several of their titles based on this one fact. Hopefully they'll re-release SC:CT with the new protection, presumebly SecureROM, so I can go buy it.

I really hope they don't go that route. I don't really care one way or another about SF, it hasn't done anything to my system, but I do have problems with SecureROM games. My one CD drive refuses to read them at all, luckly my DVD-RW drive does.