Ubisoft offically dumps starforce

[Sebastian]

Ubisoft's motivation for ending its agreement with Starforce was more personal. At the end of March, the company was slapped with a $5 million lawsuit by gamers who claimed that Starforce's DRM system compromised the security of their PCs.Following several days of rumors, Ubisoft has officially confirmed that it will no longer use the controversial digital-rights software from Starforce. "Ubisoft has decided to use an alternative copy protection system to Starforce for upcoming releases,"

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This is great news and I hope that all other publishers follow suit. I don't mean to sound intolerant, but intrusive software like starforce should not be tolerated.

 

[Vegeta897]

Awesome, I was worrying about this for an upcoming game they are publishing, Faces of War.

 

[JNightshade]

Very good. Common sense ftw!

 

[Lucid]

There is a God!

Faces of War, Oh hell yeah... I'm glad I'm not the only one looking forward to it.

 

[Asuka]

I guess from all the problems people where saying they had this is good. I never had a problem but oh well. Plus the starforce company didnt seem like a serious company dunno.

 

[DEATH eVADER]

I think there were problems from within the company who develops StarForce as well, I think Ubisoft figured they weren't a reliable company.

An example of this was one of there employees linked a site that did illegal downloads of Galactic Civilizations II about a week into the games release. Such an act would undermine the whole companies reputation and trust.

Intrusive software can be considered illegal if it effects the system negatively. I suspect there will be a lawsuit directed against starforce if they don't act.

 

[Murray]

Whoa, awesome!

 

[Zeus]

Thank god they dropped that piece of **** like a hot potato...I can't stand starforce

 

[Sulkdodds]

Ha. Ha. Ha. Hang on a second. An 'alternative copy protection system'? WE DEMAND AN END TO COPY PROTECTION! THE PEOPLE WILL NOT TOLERATE ANY LESS! RARGHGH!

I don't mean to sound intolerant, but intrusive software like starforce should not be tolerated.

I lol'd.

 

[Cole]

I don't want an end to copy protection. I just want to be able to run my games off my HD, not have to be ****ed in the asshole with a ton of extra shit, shit that screws my other shit up, and shit that screws the game up.

 

[venturon]

I don't want an end to copy protection. I just want to be able to run my games off my HD, not have to be ****ed in the asshole with a ton of extra shit, shit that screws my other shit up, and shit that screws the game up.

And worst of all, shit that you can't get rid of without sacrificing a few pints of virgin blood and half an animal nursery.

 

[CrazyJeepDriver]

Good. I have nothing against copy protection that does just its job and nothing more, but this has screwed so many peoples computers its not funny.

 

[DEATH eVADER]

And worst of all, shit that you can't get rid of without sacrificing a few pints of virgin blood and half an animal nursery.

"Do you want to perform a sacrificial Deletion?"

 

[Reaktor4]

Very good. Common sense ftw!

if common sense was involved they would have done it a long time ago. theyre only doing it because theyre getting hit in the pocket now. if there was no lawsuit and lots of people saying they wont buy games (especially graw) with sf, would they still have dropped it?

 

[weskerQ8]

finally, but i hope the new one is not more powerful than starforce

 

[boglito]

Software Piracy 1 - 0 PC Gaming

.bog.

 

[Xune]

How do you figure?

 

[boglito]

How do you figure?

If ever a system is implemented that actually might, through hard work and continuous updates, prevent software piracy then there will be riots untill the systems are ditched by the publishers that tried them. Good for piracy bad for business. Console platforms do not suffer from this since piracy is harder on them. This means that developing for console platforms is more profitable than developing for the pc.

.bog.

 

[Xune]

But starforce isn't this hypothetical software. It genuinely causes problems for some people.

 

[boglito]

But starforce isn't this hypothetical software. It genuinely causes problems for some people.

All software (think steam) genuinely causes problems for some people. Those problems could possibly be ironed out over time. Publishers of pc-games needs some hard-core protection for their games. Without such protection piracy will continue to be rampant and turning a profit will be extremely dificult up to a point where many, if not most, publishers will just go "screw it, we're making ps3-games from now on".

.bog.

 

[Xune]

Games do need protection from the unscruplous, but not to the detrament of the paying customer. If there was a copy protection that didn't leave computers open to all kinds of attacks as well as damaging hardware, there would indeed be no reason to complain about it.