need a crack for v 1.0.7.4

I actually resort to keeping a huge tower shelf right next to the computer just so I don't even have to leave my chair.

I like convenience when it comes to my leisure time

Of course sometimes convenience wars with quality and loses out.

For instance I like to keep the lights dimmed when I play video games even though this means that I have to get up turn the lights on, find and insert the CD get up again turn the lights off and return to the chair when I want to play a different game. If I'm holding the cat on my lap I'll probably just say "screw it" and play quake3 instead.

 

cause having to change the cds sucks.

 

Nope. More like 15-20 if the lights are on (see edit earlier) and both the jewel case for the cd going back and the jewel case for the cd i want are where they ought to be and while the huge tower is a handsome piece of wooden furniture it actually tends to make the cds a bit tricky to fish out one at a time. If the lights are out or anything is out of place or if fishing out the one CD causes the nieghboring ones to sldie out as well and fall to the floor it takes longer still. Fact is having to use the cd is good for only one thing inconveniencing the cheapskate freeloaders. The rest is pure nuisance value. :thumbdown:

 

not for me it doesn't I don't sell any software

Anyway whenever it's not a simple action game Im looking for it's always several minutes because I generally go through several games before finding one that really seemed to be what I was looking for.

 

Doom, Doom 2, quake, quake 2, quake 3 all required no CD (when being played) and sequals kept coming. I'm unconvinced that requiring a CD increases sales of a game much at all.

 

Hehh, who doesn't want Starforce on his machine :lol:

Copy protection is at least annyoing, especially for regular users (must grab the iso or must put in the cd; must install unknown 3rd party software /either crack or the copy protection/, must type in serial number, activate over net, etc). Crackers are used to go around this.

Besides, think about this way: piracy can help extend a game's fanbase. (Piracy, as in the sense of "Hey, I have a cool new game. Wanna try it?", not "Hey, I have a cool new game. Wanna buy a copy?")
(How did you buy Arcanum? You saw an advertisement? )

So I think it's pretty pointless to use copy protection. Who wants to play it illegally WILL play it illegally, a fan WILL buy it legally and a cracker WILL crack it.

Of course, this isn't applicable to some applications: Total Commander, for example. It has several million users, but only some 10 000 bought it.

 

They sure weren't shareware When I bought them. Out of curiosity, are you saying Quake 3 and quake 2 have been relegated to shareware status? I had heard the source code for doom was released but I had no idea that had occured for the later games.

In any event if they were shareware (and they sure weren't originally unless in some gimped "demo" version) how does that support your suggestion that sequals are unlikely if a game doesn't require the CD to play it?

Each of these games *would* have required some sort of crack for freeloading types to download and play them. This is because the CD or original disks were checked for and required for installation and the quake games also had jewel case CD codes (required only the first time you would play).

Requiring a CD doesn't really make life harder for the freeloaders. They'll need a crack for the game even when the game doesn't require the CD to be in the drive when played anway.

Also part of my disdain for requiring CDs to play the game may come from my experience with computers playing commodore 64 games where the software had to be played off of the floppy disk. When hardrives came out it was slick as hell being able to play *all* my games from my computer any time and pack my disks away in a box under the bed. When the trend went to CDs that had to be kept in a drive it felt (and feels still) like a big step back, like downgrading from tivo to VHS.

 

That's why we are here - to harass idiots who don't have the game legally. To make them feel like they are the lowest little shits on the world that they even didn't bother to buy their favourite game.

Edit: Of course, every company can decide to use copy protection or not. They are the ones that risk such shitty problems. (With big publishers and at music, this is a little different)