Copy protection woes...

Here are my feeling about Copy Protection..!

#1 - After I buy the game, I should have the right to install it on as many computers as I own?  In my case this would be 3 computers.  When I use the word "own" I mean only your computers, lap tops included, not other family members outside your own household, want to be friends, so and so fourth...!  Yes the game developer should make money on the game one way or another.. but still its my game I bought it? 

#2 - If a company only allows you to install the game on only one system, what happens when that systems hard drive crashes?  Or you make a upgrade to your system and better yet, what do ya do when you buy a whole new system and you want to install the game again for what ever the reason? 

Myself and family members play a lot of the games using the Peer to Peer method, and not over the internet, allowing us to play against each other...!  Hey what can I say, its a poor mans way of having some fun..

You can spend hours sending emails and calling the developer trying to get answers to how to install the game again and needless to say that's not a  fun thing to do, especially if its not a toll free call

My suggestion is to the developers...

In this day and age, regarding computers, there has to be a way of some kind to keep "anyone" from copying and making a workable copy of a CD or Floppy disk, so if someone wants to bootleg the game it will never work properly, forcing them to go out and by it if they want it...!

Copying a game and installing it are not the same thing in my book and I should be able to install  it as many times as I wish on my own systems!

Copying a game to give to someone else is another matter..!  These are the people that we need to weed out and make them understand, "hey its your game and your game only"  don't make the rest of us and the developer pay for what you do..!  I call this "Pride in Ownership".

Vipertooth.

For those still having problems with Master of Orion 3's copy protection (SecuRom), check out Infogrames' (Atari) support website for the Master of Orion 3. In addition to the expected technical support information, they have a special link for SecuRom Troubleshooting Questionnaire, which leads me to believe that this is a fairly widespread problem.

This brings me back to my first post. What's the point of copy protection if it prevents users from being able to play games? Considering the amount of time those folks have probably spent trying to solve these issues, would a cost/benefit analysis really work out in their favor? Personally, I know that from now on I'll think twice before shelling out cash on a game from Atari... I don't have the patience to waste hours fighting with a game for hours in hopes of getting it to work.

Oh well... enough ranting for now. I suppose its time for me to pick a new topic.

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