Comment In the late '80s and early '90s... (Score 0) 439
...the games industry could do little more than ask nicely that you not pirate their wares????
i assume you were not playing games in the 80's?
because using copy protection is as old as computer games. in the 80's the manufacturers used little tricks like writing bad sectors on a floppy disk which were not able to be copied without special hardware.
but in these days there where people (i was one of them) called crackers. i never understood why nowadays they are not called crackers anymore, but they still are here. please kids, tell me: how are they called today? theguysthatremovecopyprotectionandcannotcalledcrac kerbecausewenewkidscallhackerscrackers?
even if they can't do anything against starforce version dunno now, just give them a few month and you're free again to copy your games.
and exactly this is why i don't get the game developers... why spending several thousands of dollars for a software, this is already useless, or at least useless soon?
i assume you were not playing games in the 80's?
because using copy protection is as old as computer games. in the 80's the manufacturers used little tricks like writing bad sectors on a floppy disk which were not able to be copied without special hardware.
but in these days there where people (i was one of them) called crackers. i never understood why nowadays they are not called crackers anymore, but they still are here. please kids, tell me: how are they called today? theguysthatremovecopyprotectionandcannotcalledcra
even if they can't do anything against starforce version dunno now, just give them a few month and you're free again to copy your games.
and exactly this is why i don't get the game developers... why spending several thousands of dollars for a software, this is already useless, or at least useless soon?
