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We'll see if this proves successful once the game is released, but
didn't Bioshock get cracked and it had <i>exactly</i> the same method
of authentication? :-/<br>
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Good thoughts all, it's a realised problem, something will have to be
sorted out (if not by us, by physical media archives for their
collections), and no doubt customers, not the pirates, are the most
inconvenienced, and we perhaps are the worst inconvenienced 20, 30 or
100 years down the line. Hopefully they will become more long sighted
regarding sales, like films are, once the games are perceived at
hitting the peak of graphical quality.<br>
<br>
Andrew<br>
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Jim Leonard wrote:
<blockquote cite="mid:4827B791.6020405@oldskool.org" type="cite">Andrew
Armstrong wrote:
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<blockquote type="cite">* Installation requires an internet
connection to validate the CD key (bad enough in itself)
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This is the future, unfortunately. It's the only way to significantly
hurt pirates, because there's no way to write a keygen because the
verification code is on the server and not in the program. So this
problem (for archivists) will never go away...
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