Starforce Petition!

[thebluegr]

Thanks, added them to the list!

The new PC release of Namco Museum 50th Anniversary Collection also has Starforce and will not install properly. Sadly, this is how Namco ends up sharing the old classics with its customers.

Thanks to everyone here for the opportunity to keep up to date and express our views.

[jholybigjesus]

Add bet on soldier to the list.

[star4ce]

ive got an ORIGINAL The Suffering:Ties That Bind game and this crap tells me i dont have cd in drive ,cause they dont tested this **** on my LG cd-rw boycott this f****** ****

[Crayzee_Ivan]

@Grumpy: Your petition convinced me to register at fileforums, add that to your "Good deed for the day" list

Petition signed.

BTW, why is this still not a sticky?

[Andrewoz]

Abbie's idea that a 1-click EULA gives legal protection is flawed. There are several ways you could successfully argue that away in court. Wat protects publishers isd the vast disparity in resources between themselves and end-users.
Lack of informed consent kills the EULA, unless it specifically lists what it is doing wrt to planting drivers and lists all known/reportewd issues with them.
As far as the EULA principle itself, if you can demonstrate that the "average" person scrolls down and agrees without reading, to the satisfaction of the court, the the EULA concept is out the window, even if the info is in there.
Of course, this is all moot until someone challenges it in court. Any idle rich want a hobby-cause?

[asdfasf]

quake4 and cod2 ye...q4 org i need cuz i play online ...same story with CoD2...i dont like playing single player :F
i have read from post 1 to the last post about starforce and i dont want to buy I-NINJA ..i am scared it could ruin my system...and no1 so far explained that to me what it is... =o

[asdfasf]

Yes, I am boycotting Starforce games

[Jenas]

For what little bit it is worth, I am regularly complaining to Micros*** about why they are allowing Starforce protection to infest their operating systems and **** up peoples programs and apps.
I know it wont do any good but at least it makes me feel better.


Hurry up and die Starforce.............

[Avi H]

ARG! i hate SF, finally people have theior say about it!
i will NEVER BUY any SF games in my lafe, screw SF! hope the SF developers can read it and now know that they cause only harm to the games they protect! because now they are boycot death to SF!

[DABhand]

Would be interesting to know how many who signed the petition are warez users who couldnt figure out how to play their ill gotten gains :P


I bet its a high number lol

[DUKE_NUKEM]

Besides there's probably a high number of users who are tired of:
1.waiting minutes for a disc validation
2.booting and rebooting everytime they install a sf-protected game
3.loosing the complete control of their pc\os
4.having their hardware damaged by starforce virus (oooops, driver.)

Defeating piracy is not really a good excuse to not guarantee to legit users QUALITY and SAFETY anymore. A good protection shouldn't have hard&soft compatibility issues; if piracy "harms consumers as well as legitimate developers", Starforce harms "warez users as well as legitimate players".
And remember, even if in most cases to play backups it's needed to unplug ide drives, in some cases people who have original copies are obliged to buy new drives cause starforce broke theirs (The same thing happened to me with Still Life).
Go checking Ubisoft Official Forum: you'll read a lot of comments of people disappointed by the choice of SF3 for POP - The Two Trones: maybe they're all game downloaders, but does it really matter for an honest gamer who would like to play peacefully, already having to struggle with graphucz\control\etc. settings? I guess not, and that's why I'll go for the Xbox version of the game. But this is a compromise, not a solution.

[Joe Forster/STA]

Originally Posted by DABhand

Would be interesting to know how many who signed the petition are warez users who couldnt figure out how to play their ill gotten gains :P

I bet its a high number lol

As long as people don't discuss warez on this forum, noone has the right to - directly or indirectly - question the legality of their games. That's the reversal of forum rule #1 so, please, refrain from such comments.

[revolver]

I have boycotted starforce for years and will continue to do so as for wheather someone owns an orginal or warez. it anit anyones business but that person if they wanna uses warez gd luck to them

but i cant blame them when it comes to starforces

[DABhand]

Originally Posted by Joe Forster/STA

As long as people don't discuss warez on this forum, noone has the right to - directly or indirectly - question the legality of their games. That's the reversal of forum rule #1 so, please, refrain from such comments.

Not Really Joe, it is a genuine question.


Trying to figure out who has the most problems, legitimate users or warez kiddies.


That would kinda show how bad SF is or isnt.