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 Posted: Wed, 21st Oct 2009 05:55 Post subject: |
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| Lfctony wrote: | | FISKER_Q wrote: | | Big_Gun wrote: |
Gearbox said on the official forums if someone managed to get the game early and legitimately, they would seek to have the activation date rolled back for whatever that is worth. |
Now what would be the point of that?
"If the game leaks early, we'll remove the protection that's supposed to prevent people playing before release"
That shit right there is right off the hurrdurr scale.  |
For legit purchases. Not cracked ones. If people connect and try to activate the game legally (ie access the authorisation servers with valid keys) they will remove it. It's not the same as pirating the game. If you bypass the protection, the date check should stop you from playing. If you try to activate normally, it wont. At least that's their intention... |
Just in case you don't know, pirated copies of games usually come from retail, so the idea of this protection is to remove any chance of leaking the game early and have pirates release it, this is achieved by usually having critical parts of the game either requiring some patching or decryption.
In this case if a release group were to activate this game early, they would get the missing parts to play the game, and they would simply use those missing parts to crack the rest of the protection(Which isn't that hard anymore), and since they got the missing parts from Gearbox, they can include that in the crack, and the game will work for pirates even if they pull down the activation server again.
So what they're are saying is that they went out and wasted money on a copy protection which's sole purpose is to prevent players and pirates alike to play before release, and they're saying they're willing to disable the copy protection iif a few players buy the game early, thus making it piratable?
I don't think so.
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| Posted: Wed, 21st Oct 2009 06:10 Post subject: |
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| FISKER_Q wrote: | | Lfctony wrote: | | FISKER_Q wrote: |
Now what would be the point of that?
"If the game leaks early, we'll remove the protection that's supposed to prevent people playing before release"
That shit right there is right off the hurrdurr scale. |
For legit purchases. Not cracked ones. If people connect and try to activate the game legally (ie access the authorisation servers with valid keys) they will remove it. It's not the same as pirating the game. If you bypass the protection, the date check should stop you from playing. If you try to activate normally, it wont. At least that's their intention... |
Just in case you don't know, pirated copies of games usually come from retail, so the idea of this protection is to remove any chance of leaking the game early and have pirates release it, this is achieved by usually having critical parts of the game either requiring some patching or decryption.
In this case if a release group were to activate this game early, they would get the missing parts to play the game, and they would simply use those missing parts to crack the rest of the protection(Which isn't that hard anymore), and since they got the missing parts from Gearbox, they can include that in the crack, and the game will work for pirates even if they pull down the activation server again.
So what they're are saying is that they went out and wasted money on a copy protection which's sole purpose is to prevent players and pirates alike to play before release, and they're saying they're willing to disable the copy protection iif a few players buy the game early, thus making it piratable?
I don't think so. |
Only point they said was, basically they hated to think of their real customers getting screwed over if they were lucky enough to get the game early legitimately.
I am sure their publisher wouldn't allow it anyway since they decide the copy protection and not Gearbox (which they have also stated repeatedly).
The game is certainly worth supporting though.
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| Posted: Wed, 21st Oct 2009 07:38 Post subject: |
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I know a few Australian stores have the PC version for sale already.
Epsilon: Game is great btw, I love it, so far it's a definite goty. It's remarkable how much has changed since the beta, stardock have been working their asses off, and it shows.
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| Posted: Wed, 21st Oct 2009 09:18 Post subject: |
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| Perdurab00 wrote: | | I know a few Australian stores have the PC version for sale already. |
You must buy!
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| Posted: Wed, 21st Oct 2009 10:18 Post subject: |
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With Australian internet? It'd take years to upload.
I kid I kid.
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| Posted: Wed, 21st Oct 2009 11:22 Post subject: |
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If I lived in Australia, I'd steal it.
Epsilon: Game is great btw, I love it, so far it's a definite goty. It's remarkable how much has changed since the beta, stardock have been working their asses off, and it shows.
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| Posted: Wed, 21st Oct 2009 13:32 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Wed, 21st Oct 2009 13:57 Post subject: |
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It's strange that there weren't any reviews in the weeks before it was released - I think just a review in the official xbox magazine. Guess the publisher was relying on pure hype to sell the game. It's funny to see the console kiddies in the official forum ranting and screaming whenever the game gets a review score of just an 8 or 8.5.
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| Posted: Wed, 21st Oct 2009 18:51 Post subject: |
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It's just site problems I believe.
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| Posted: Wed, 21st Oct 2009 18:56 Post subject: |
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wonder how this game will run on the pc, as the box version has major fps drops by the end.
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| Posted: Wed, 21st Oct 2009 19:05 Post subject: |
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I think performance will be the least of your worries with a semi decent machine.
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| Posted: Wed, 21st Oct 2009 19:26 Post subject: |
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I believe this is going to be worth the wait, these last two years may well have been worth it.
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| Posted: Wed, 21st Oct 2009 19:34 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Wed, 21st Oct 2009 19:39 Post subject: |
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| Posted: Wed, 21st Oct 2009 19:57 Post subject: |
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LuckyStrike
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lhzr
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| Posted: Wed, 21st Oct 2009 21:30 Post subject: |
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We have friends over ... only they bring their laptops !
Split screen is and should be the bottom of priorities ...
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lhzr
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| Posted: Wed, 21st Oct 2009 21:35 Post subject: |
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meh, gaming laptops aren't that common for this to be a bottom priority. especially considering they use the same engine for all platforms, so the split screen code should already be in there
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| Posted: Wed, 21st Oct 2009 21:39 Post subject: |
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