Ubisoft Officially Drops Starforce 63
totalbasscase writes "Starforce, the copy protection scheme hated by most who've had reason to use it, has lost a customer. Ubisoft has confirmed that not only will Heroes of Might and Magic V ship without Starforce copy protection, the publisher is discontinuing its use in all its games." From the article: "We'd venture it has something to do with the lawsuit raised against Ubisoft for using Starforce as copy protection software. When we asked why they were dropping the company Ubisoft representatives said, 'Ubisoft takes its customer concerns very seriously and is investigating the complaints about alleged problems with Starforce's software. Ubisoft's goal is to find solutions for its customers if there are problems with Ubisoft products.'"
Huh. (Score:5, Insightful)
Since game companies absolutely depend on the goodwill of the consumers of their product, I'm glad to see they made the right choice, and I hope other companies *coughSONYcoughcough* will see that the right choice can also be the smart choice.
Out F'ing Standing! (Score:2, Insightful)
Starforce is of the same level of ilk as adware/ransomware vendors.
Behold a toast to hoping these Russians are looking for jobs in Siberia within the next 3 months.
You know there's a problem... (Score:5, Insightful)
Re:What they should do (Score:5, Insightful)
It would be awesome if they patched their old games to remove it. I just hope whatever new "protection" scheme they use in their new games will be less retarded.
Re:Huh. (Score:2, Insightful)
Won't use but won't recall? (Score:3, Insightful)
Not quite the list (Score:3, Insightful)
1.7 million sales for Oblivion says that limited or no copy protection works.
This makes me happy. (Score:2, Insightful)