What happened to Starforce ??
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S.S.S




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PostPosted: Thu, 24th Mar 2011 23:44    Post subject: What happened to Starforce ??
A couple of years ago it was all about how SF was the shit and the most difficult protection to date. Then it was sort of semi cracked and we had to disable IDE drives , physically unplug cable and a bunch of crap to make it work. Then SF 3 was fully cracked and then 4 and it now seems that they have disappeared from the map. A quick google search show that they are still in business and now are at SF Frontline 5.0 or some crap but correct me if i'm wrong but i haven't seen a SF game in a while.

Did they drop PC protection all together ? They got dumped by game companies ?

Just wondering Razz
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Nettwerk




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PostPosted: Thu, 24th Mar 2011 23:46    Post subject:
It died with IDE
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mroussev




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PostPosted: Thu, 24th Mar 2011 23:46    Post subject:
Ubisoft invented DRM and doomed us all and startforce became useless Cool Face
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sabin1981
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PostPosted: Thu, 24th Mar 2011 23:46    Post subject:
They got dumped by most non-Russian western studios due to significant backlash. Later versions of Starforce were less prone to destroying your machine, but by then the damage had been done and most publishers just stopped using it.
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Epsilon
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PostPosted: Thu, 24th Mar 2011 23:46    Post subject:
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VGAdeadcafe




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PostPosted: Fri, 25th Mar 2011 00:37    Post subject:
It was only worth the hassle (for the publishers) when it was hard to crack.

As soon as RLD started raping its asshole ... it was over soon.

RLD, like a BOSS. I will never forget.
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S.S.S




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PostPosted: Fri, 25th Mar 2011 03:43    Post subject:
Alright thanks guys that answer my questions Razz
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Hfric




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PostPosted: Fri, 25th Mar 2011 03:45    Post subject:
its still used but now only on Russian products


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Mr_Baggins




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PostPosted: Fri, 25th Mar 2011 22:49    Post subject:
I don't remember any good game protected by this crap.


11th "Thou shalt not flash"
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ixigia
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PostPosted: Fri, 25th Mar 2011 22:53    Post subject:
Mr_Baggins wrote:
I don't remember any good game protected by this crap.


SC: Chaos Theory, Silent Hunter III, GTR and many others? Razz



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sabin1981
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PostPosted: Fri, 25th Mar 2011 22:55    Post subject:
Mr_Baggins wrote:
I don't remember any good game protected by this crap.


Blazing Angels: Squadrons of WWII
Call of Cthulhu: Dark Corners of the Earth
Codename: Outbreak (... I liked it...)
Dead to Rights
Dreamfall
Gangland
Icewind Dale: Heart of Winter
Kill Switch
Loki
Neuro Hunter
Night Watch
Obscure
Pariah
Parkan 2
Psi-Ops
Restricted Area
Sacred Plus
Sacred Underworld
Scrapland
Second Sight
Space Rangers 2
Splinter Cell 3: Chaos Theory
Star Wolves
Star Wolves 2
Sudeki
Syberia II
The Fall : Last Days of Gaia
The Suffering: Ties That Bind
Two worlds
Ubersoldier
XIII
X2: The Threat
X3: Reunion


Razz

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W123




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PostPosted: Tue, 20th Sep 2011 06:07    Post subject:
I was gonna say the sequel to Divine Divinity too but then remembered how sucktastic it was
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sabin1981
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PostPosted: Tue, 20th Sep 2011 11:53    Post subject:
Beyond? Yeah... definitely didn't live up to the awesomeness of what Divine was.
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PostPosted: Tue, 8th May 2012 15:24    Post subject:
Interview

Quote:
"The main goal of all DRMs is to give the publisher enough time to return investments (...) we suggest publishers to level protection down after the sales peak is ended"


Quote:
"Some of (the DRM) complaints are based on real facts. But every industry has the same behaviour. Look at (prescription) drugs. Man can die due to improper use of a drug, but everybody agrees that drugs help"



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|NFiNiTY




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PostPosted: Fri, 24th Aug 2012 03:51    Post subject:
http://tweakguides.com/Piracy_9.html

Basically SF is infact the best protection there was that didn't use stupid methods (and no it didn't need to rely on drive tricks either cause Chaos Theory was a digital download the same time it was uncracked). People just keep crying rootkit and other bullshit until publishers couldn't take the bashlash.

You even got evlncrn8 on that page (look for his posts on this forum)... backed up by the Daemon Tool devs.. saying specifically against the argument of rootkit or anything of the sort.

Now they use SecuROM STILL despite it having backlash and being a poorer protection so it's just a case of SF being a small company unable to correctly establish itself as the market leader as it should have been.
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