Great game, just bought it after 3 days "testing" of "torrent version" :) Really like it, there are some thing to improve but it's more close to MoO2 than GalCiv. The style is a bit different, as I said more like MoO2 and Accendancy but I really like it! Actually more that GalCiv1/2 - it was good when where nothing else around but never really "shined".
I really liked the game but ... it's imposible to enjoy , how this possible you say ? - Simple, the game has limited number of turns you have to finish the mission which instead of exploring the map and building your forces, doingsidequests etc makes you always rush to the mission goal ASAP. No enjoyment ...
I really disapointed with the plot. Each time authors become too lazy to learn the Star Trek story they invent some "alternative universe" or timeline change ... And btw: I liked "old style" Romulans way more.
I have this happening since first GalCiv. The problem happens a lot less lately but still happens. My "solution" is to "save", exit game completely and then "load".
Bte: this "simple patch" with crack already on trackers :(
Tamren , So why than there not that much pirates with GalCiv ? As for Spore - you contradict yourself, Spore was under strong DRM and pirated all over.
AshBrewster , may be you right :) but read the link attached to original post - suddenly only every 5th Demigod player is legit, all others are pirates. Wander why ?
Does anyone READ before posting ? Look the topic "first results before even released ", my reply one post above ... Again, what hurted StarDock here is not GOO itself , and no, it's not in Demigod , but TALK about it , the fact that StarDock turned towards DRM, ok , less invaisive DRM , much more convinient DRM but still DRM. And you do not have to convince me , I just ordered Demigod because of this situation , even that I
It's not , what hurt the StarDock here is the talk about GOO , not the GOO itself.
I guess this once again proves that reputation is hard to earn but easy to loose. I remember days of GalCiv 2 and addons release where on all trackers you could find a lot of posts asking people to buy StarDock games if you like them, not just because they are good (and they are) but because StarDock is anti-DRM. Now we got GOO anounsment after which Demigod was released. Well ... numbers say it's all , just look at the link , and I noticed Demigod on the trackers even about 4
[quote who="Annatar11" reply="11" id="2145490"]They didn't change their approach, so obviously you don't know. No Stardock game will have Goo on it. It was made so other publishers would have something more user-friendly than SecuROM/Steamworks to use.[/quote] Than it's not my mistake but common mistake, currently that's the publicity StarDock has "acquired" with intoduction of GOO idea.
[quote who="Annatar11" reply="9" id="2145475"]Demigod doesn't have GOO.[/quote] I know but this does not change the fact that StarDoc changed i'ts aproach , I guess so are pirates.
Funny , noticed Demigod release on Torrent trackers first :) It's there for 4 days now, and this time no "buy it Stardoc on our side" messages - guess because of GOO. Also aperently there is a new trand (ok, may be new just for me) - people set up hamanchi servers to play network games as Demigod.
Btw: it's really interesting how this GOO will affect StarDock sales, I mean up until now StarDock was persived as "one of our guys" on all the trackers, people were telling each other - buy this game , they are anti-DRM so by buying it you show that games without DRM can sell well. I am not sure how big part of the GalCiv success was this approach after all it's a damn good games but it was there, I saw people buying just almost anything from StarDock just to "support" them as being no-DRM c
[quote]Every DRM system is crackable, even hardware driven ones. If there is code and an end-user can run that code, someone will figure out a way to run that code whenever/wherever they want. It is impossible to make a DRM system that is uncrackable.[/quote] You are right of course but my point was that with GOO scheme it's like with BD protection - once you crack system one disk you crack them all including future games. Or am I missing something ?
May be I am wrong but isn't the GOO scheme (not the code the scheme) sounds too easy to crack ? I mean fake the activation server or just change the authentication DLL and all the GOO destributed games are "wild open" at once. Am I wrong ?
The 64bit/memory discussion aside , may I suggest my solution : 1. Install Microsoft Virtual PC on your Vista x64 machine. ( http://www.microsoft.com/windows/products/winfamily/virtualpc/default.mspx ) 2. Install Vista 32 bit on it (unless you have OEM license you allowed to do so ,or of course you probably have MSDN so no legal issues). 3. Install Cisco VPN on that 32 bit Vista and get from there into
- people in masses give this game 1 point to protest over Spore DRM (you have activate it first time after install and only 3 activations totaly allowed). I do not kbnow about you but even with activation I like StarDoc's aproach more, this is really funny that the game was cracked even before release and now legal customers find themselves in much worse position than "pirates", most of them just simply use cracked version to avoid
+1 Also please explain why you can't buy on Impulse with tokens and why Political Machine 2008 is not in SDC.
Impulse does not accept tokens and no Political Machine 2008 on SDC - is it good for people ?
Don't you think it's a bit too early fort that ? I mean talking about game which development will start 2-3 years from now ?
EULA is a contract between you and publisher. You can get sued for violating it if publisher finds you, find what you did and sues but using crack it's not a crime, it's just violation of contract.
[quote] Zydor: And so they should [/quote] It depends, for now I have 3 reasons to use a crack : 1. When no demo available - too many crap released to I have to "test" first . 2. I hate inserting CD/DVDs all the time. 3. The damn game is not available in my country (this one really sux :)) So if they "fix" all 3 I would agree with you but until then cracks often used by valid buyers of the games and we do need them. P.S.: Finally found a way to
[quote]it would be silly to prosecute[/quote] It would be impossible to prosecute since no law is violated. In US however due to DMCA you can prosecute the creator of the crack.
[quote]Pirating software is theft - Period.[/quote] Wrong, check the law book - it's not defined as theft , of course its all technical but you can't call it theft by the law.
