Mamoulian War

And yet AFAIK after all these years no one can run a simple test like the one I outlined earlier in the thread to prove that Starforce burns up drives. Actually, I wouldn't be surprised if such a test was run but the results were never released as the desired result was not attained... Or the exact results could be attained only through reverse engineering (as you might know, reverse engineering of copyrighted IP is a crime in most of the "civilised" countries) or any other means which could infringe on the copyright of the owner of the Starforce IP, so such tests could be ordered only by the court and afaik no order for such a test was issued... I bet we would see some evidence like this at people vs Ubisoft lawsuit, which was issued in 2007 for 5 million $, but UbiSoft rather settled the lawsuit and abandoned Starforce...

It would be cool if more companies did that. Take one of their games that is a year or two old, patch it up, remove the drm, maybe toss in a few extras, and rerelease it at a slightly lower price point than a new game. It gets the game back in the public eye in a nice new packahe and is bound to move a few copies. Glad we have EA, they are doing it already with all their sports series, except the lower price and removing DRM But yeah if other companies would make waht you suggest i would be happy panda... i missed some nice games in the past, and they are no longer for purchase...

And just to show people, your lol spinning of my words: My post: your post Where did i said here, that by installing SecuROM will result in HiJacking your PC? Let me rephrase my 1st qute to you, because you love to spin ****: If you at least dont reformat your PC once a year, and dont do anything else to protect your PC... ANY (once again repeating for you, because you seem to be seeing only stuff you want to see) ANY program which is installed in ring 0 (doesn't matter if it is Windows, Linux, OS2)... which works above any administrative priviledges, might lead into serious security risks, which MIGHT lead into hijacking the PC... That can happen if the company providing the ring 0 applications, does not give a flying **** about the security of their product, or the product is designed to abuse that fact by default... If SecuROM, is secure enough or not to not pose any security vulnerabilities to our systems, will be decided by the judge in the class action lawsuit against EA... untill then everything you say is same bull**** to me, as everything i say, is bull**** to you...

fixed... see it can be said both ways... and both are 100% accurate... No, it can't be said both ways. You stated that allowing software to install in ring 0 I'd be lucky to not have my computer hijacked. You made the claim, and hence, the burden of proof is on you that SecuROM will allow people to hijack my computer, preferably within a year. To refresh your memory, here's what you said: "If you install any type of programs which works in Ring 0 and dont reinstall your PC at least once in a year and have static IP address, you can consider yourself lucky if you dont get your PC hi-jacked few times" I know people such as yourself love to try to turn things around like you just did, but it's a fallacy and exceptionally poor scientific method. You'd be laughed out of research for suggesting your reasoning, because it's quite frankly grasping at straws. So, buckle down and put your money where your mouth is. You stated that if I install programs that work in ring zero and don't reformat my computer at least once a year, I'm lucky that I don't get hijacked. You surely have some sort of proof to substantiate your claim, and none of this bull**** of turning stuff around. But somehow I have a feeling that's all you got, which is why people don't take the crusades you go on seriously. To reiterate: For your claim, THE BURDEN OF PROOF IS ON YOU. I'm not going to buy any of this bull**** pseudoscience that says "well, you don't know either" [with lame ass 'fixed' added to boot]. You might as well be a religious evangelist telling me to believe in God because while he can't prove he does exist, I can't prove that he doesn't. It's a bull**** argument used by people that have no argument. Do you not have a legitimate argument? blah blah blah Why should i be obliged to proof you anything? Proof is to be made in the courts in the people vs. EA (spore securom lawsuits)... i am not part of them i dont care about you trying to spin anything i say... As i said both things said are 100% correct, unless you convince be that not a single PC with static IP, containing software working in ring 0, could not be hijacked... And bringing God into technical question is absolutely ridiculous... EDIT: Saying that companies abandoned StarForce because of bad publicity is total bull**** aswell, if you have not noticed SecuROM has much worse publicity than Starforce ever had... And the companies are still supporting SecuROM... EDIT2: Not to say, that believeing company, which was already once found guilty in distribution of their self-made Rootkit on music CDs and saying it does nothing, is crazy aswell... but what i can say about crazyness in the world, where many people are still buying their 5th Xbox after their 4 previous got RRoD or E74...

I have Original, and missed the Enhanced Edition, so I will be buying it for sure... If you dont like it, no one is gonna force you to buy it, just download the patch... But i'm enjoying the news!!!

The anti-DRM crowd is full of bold claims but extremely light on actual studies, papers, etc. For instance the claim that Starforce burns up drives would be fairly easy to demonstrate: Buy 200 identical DVD drives: have 100 of them running starforce protected games non-stop and have 100 running non-starforce games non-stop... there should be a statistically significant difference in drive life if starforce does burn up drives as claimed. Apparently, every single anti-DRM person in the world is poor and cannot afford to bankroll such a study... I just have to listen to anecdotal stories on how Starforce ruined someone's drive edit: I am in no way endorsing Starforce... I think it's a crappy form of DRM. But in the same way I don't assume a defendant with a crappy background is guilty of murder I don't assume these hardware destruction stories are true because of the crappiness of their DRM scheme. Show the proof The fact, that every single publisher (except some russians) left StarForce behind and do not want to touch it again, is for me proof good enough

fixed... see it can be said both ways... and both are 100% accurate...

Final Fantasy Origins

What's wrong with that??? You know Final Fantasy XI was released in 2002... so FF XIV will be released 8 years after... Which is imo logical... And i bet Blizzard has similar plans for their next gen MMO release schedule...

If it works only in Ring 0, it's bad... For me it is not bad, because i use Acronis for creating image of my PC's OS before i install any DRMed game... after i uninstall it i restore the image to the state before... If you install any type of programs which works in Ring 0 and dont reinstall your PC at least once in a year and have static IP address, you can consider yourself lucky if you dont get your PC hi-jacked few times

same **** like Spore, just with different smell...

It's just matter of taste... I have DS, but i have few friends with PSP who laugh at concept of playing with touchstick (or how the hell is it called)... And I will be buying PSP with Dissidia release this year aswell... My biggest problem with DS is that it does not have memory card slot like PSP and you can save mostly only on 2 or 3 positions directly on the game cartridge, which is for many games, especialy RPGs, pretty retarded... My biggest problem with PSP is it's battery endurance...

Report on serious research about DRM and it impacts on common people and institutions... http://arstechnica.com/tech-policy/news/20...t-of-us-all.ars

If a wrecked, derelict, mutant infested, radiation bathed sinkhole of human corpses that is Chernobyl isn't special, than nothing is. alanschu: imho established history doesn't matter much when a, they didn't bother gathering every info there is, and b, they retcon it anyway. you are forgetting that FO3 is in different part of the world than FO1 and 2... Going very close to anything that happened long time ago and few hundred miles away would be ridiculous... Because most of the people in FO universe (the people in vaults namely) do not even know that there are any people living outside their vaults... In other words... the games are in same universe but in different settings...

that's the reasons why i never play on public servers

Except that they've completely destroyed whatever interesting lore they had to suit WoW's gameplay. this

You know same can be said about people who hate Fallout 3 just because it is not the same cup of tea like Fallout 1 and 2, without even playing it... OMG Blasphemy... there are millions of gamers with different gaming preferences... learn to live with it... and maybe then you stop being pissed off everytime you read some forums... I have not purchased it because i dont think it's the same quality like Fallout 1 and 2... But all DLC on 1 hardcopy together with the game for a budget price is worth it imo... at least Bethesda is not putting some limited activation **** on their games... EDIT: Besides, questioning other people sanity because they do like different games than you do is pretty lame...

WTF ??? No PC version??? EDIT: And where did you read about it... no words on bethsoft page...

And then Sub-Zero and Scorpion come to the rescue !!!

looks like this will be the final nail to the coffin of my old PC time to get finaly some quadcore before the launch of AvP3...

We won't find out anytime soon. Besides, Blizzard has a fifth project in development as well. I'm more curious about that (SC Ghost pretty please?). i wish it would be Black Thorne 2

WoW was planned up to lvl 100 when it was released 4 years ago... how they changed their plans on that, no one knows, but if they go same way as so far, we will have lvl 90 expansion in 2010 and lvl 100 expansion in 2012... and last lvl 100 raids will be released 2013-2014... that means new MMO could be planned for 2014 - 2015 to release...

they might have the best stuff ever, but good game is not only about how good the tools are... Starcraft 2 is announced for more than 2 years and imo will be in betatesting more than 1 more... not telling how long they did develop it befoer they announced it... good software have to be made few years... or you get EA-like shovelware...

Software developed in 3-5 months can be called everything but quality software... Now. 2076 is not now. i still not believe it will be in 2076 aswell