quesion with splinter cell 3

[kosmiq]

Originally Posted by nightwing2000

I am curious about something. Everyone is saying that StarForce 3 is difficult to defeat. Yet other games claiming to use StarForce 3 seem to have a fixed .exe available for them (Singles 2 and Area 51 to name 2). If they can be cracked, why is it more difficult to crack SCCT?

Nightwing2000

First of there are different versions of Starforce. Not only version numbers but also in how much they protect. There is the super duper heavy version that SCCT uses. It is very hard to crack due to lots of OP codes.
Other games may use a lighter version of starforce with less OP codes and also less general protection of the software. Starforce also encrypts files (if I am not remembering wrong here) and those might need to be decrypted.

Some crackers can crack the lighter versions of starforce but have no real chance against the heavier... Sure they could do it but it would take months of work.