The cinemaware marquee version of Darwinia just screams "Pirate me!" All you need is the disk for ten minutes to install it, not even a CD-Key or anything, and then it can be transferred to the next pirate. It doesn't need a CD to run.
6-year-old Macs had better copy protection than this.
Someone should talk to Cinemaware about this, cause I'm too lazy to.
Shwart!!
Anyone realized this yet?
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Shwart!! wrote:The cinemaware marquee version of Darwinia just screams "Pirate me!" All you need is the disk for ten minutes to install it, not even a CD-Key or anything, and then it can be transferred to the next pirate. It doesn't need a CD to run.
6-year-old Macs had better copy protection than this.
Someone should talk to Cinemaware about this, cause I'm too lazy to.
Shwart!!
Yeah, and all you need to pirate the Windows version is a friend who has downloaded it. In fact, you can pirate the game using only legitimately downloaded files off of the internet. IV use no copy protection. Thy pride themselves on using no copy protection. You haven't discovered anything new.
However, I am forced to laugh at the Cinemaware website -- their forums have been pwnd by spam.
xander
- It means that I don't have to swap CD's or have daemon tools running just to play the game i paid for. That's something I don't like about most other game companies.
Shwart!! wrote:What I mean is that you had to put in the floppy to run the game (albeit for a completely different reason...) on an old mac.
I enjoy that Darwinia doesn't need a disk, but the lack of even a CD-key (yes, I know how easy it is to get a CD-key online) surprises me.
Shwart!!
Not on a six year old Mac... Macs have had hard drives since at least 1987. Once they had hard drives, you could copy the contents of the disk to the hard drive, and play the game from the disk. Hell, a six year old Mac wouldn't have even had a floppy drive -- this would have been after the introduction of the original iMacs and the Yosemite tower, neither of which had floppy drives. If you are going to bash Macs, at least do it from a position of knowledge, rather than ignorance.
xander
I'm not bashing them, and I know that at least some 6-year-old macs still had floppy drives. My brother has one. It requires the floppy to run some games, regardless of it being copied or not. I think macs are cool, although I don't have much use for them.
I am not one for making ridiculous claims.
Shwart!!
I am not one for making ridiculous claims.
Shwart!!
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IMO, anything about copy protection is a waste of time. ANY protection can be cracked/simulated, no matter how strong it is. There are steam simulators, virtual-cd hiders and so on. I guess, copy protections is just a way to make your boss fill better.
One thing will never change: a game CAN be started somehow legaly, so the way CAN be always repeated by pirates. (Even if they need second PC, which will behave as steam internet server.)
One thing will never change: a game CAN be started somehow legaly, so the way CAN be always repeated by pirates. (Even if they need second PC, which will behave as steam internet server.)
Shwart!! wrote:I'm not bashing them, and I know that at least some 6-year-old macs still had floppy drives. My brother has one. It requires the floppy to run some games, regardless of it being copied or not. I think macs are cool, although I don't have much use for them.
I am not one for making ridiculous claims.
Shwart!!
I would be curious to know what model he has. Apple stopped included floppy drives on their computers with the introduction of the original iMac in 1999. No Mac since then has come with a floppy drive, though, as I said, you can get 3rd-party USB floppy drives for them.
xander
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