Starforce Petition!

Wow. Great to see this. I purchased SCCT Collector's Edition and installed the game, this is when it came out. At the time I wasn't aware of Starforce, but thanks to forms and sites like these, I am now.

While looking on the ubi forms, I came across a sticky called 'Starforce and Solutions'. In this there is some admission to SF causing problems with certain applications and hardware. But there were three things that irritated me.

1) Problems with old drivers; update your firmware. Yeah and what if there isn't an update? Buy a new CD/DVD? Not likely, unless it was rendered useless, which was in my case, my LITE-ON DVD/RW (can't remember the rest) was /w with the latest and last firmware available :\

2) ..."Alc0hol 120%
DAEMON Tools
Clone CD
Nero (Disabled by Default)

If you experience issues with running the game disabling these applications can help."
The key words. -CAN HELP

3) The thread is closed. So they are right and you are wrong. Upon looking a little further in to the forms. They basically don't want to hear anything negative about their beloved SF virus/trojan.. what have you.

The topic can be found here: http://forums.ubi.com/groupee/forums...1/m/6811067603

So. What else can we do? Yes, for one, stop buying SF games. Make more people aware. Get the attention of someone with $$$ that cares enough to support our cause. From the ubi form, it appears obvious that they don't care if your system gets trashed and only supply very lame solutions.

[blackjjjack]

But I hope that wont be needed much longer. Sony will be punished for what they did by installing background software on our systems and I hope the same will happen to those starforce devellopers. I mean: some stupid EULA does NOT give the right to grap control over our computers.
There IS a reason why the big publicers like EA, Rockstar and do NOT use starforce. And I just hope that other companies will follow those good examples.

[Joe Forster/STA]

The article at http://forums.ubi.com/groupee/forums...1/m/6811067603 fails to mention the following:
- How to "disable" virtual CD/DVD emulators? Uninstalling them to be able to play a game is not an acceptable solution; it's too much of a hassle, especially, that the settings, making their usage more comfortable, are also lost.
- Unlike the Starforce drive, the SecuROM 7 driver doesn't run all the time, therefore, it can't mess with your system when not playing games.

[asdfasf]

i played games when i was younger , now i dont have much time for it but when i find some useless free time i always like to spend it playing some game...there games starts...friend brought me around 10 DVDs with games and he left...the problem was that it was the first time after 2-3 years that i actually started to install some new games on my pc ( only game i play is q3 cuz i am pro-gamer :F ) and when i saw one file around 2.5 gb for quake4 and some strange files i was like WTF !?!?11 i called him immediatly and he tells me : "just dl daemon tools or alcohol , latest versions" i said ok and i did that...i instaled COD2 , installed q4..everything worked, everything was just fine...i told him also to get me some game for my 10 year old lil sister and it was I-NINJA, i tried to install it..i did...but no-cd error occured, first i thought there is some crack or something but no...then i phoned him and he tells me he dunno he was just dling =)) then i started google search for some solutions and i ended up here...now my lil sis is whining and my hands are tied up...i am saying guys that you have my full support just dunno where to sign that petition =)

[Grumpy]

@asdfas

he tells me he dunno he was just dling

So I presume you are talking about games your friend has downloaded and not talking about the original discs? Do you have the original discs?

[Typhoon1000]

I own X2, but swear I will never ever buy another SF protected Game.