CoH:OF

The copy protections are just getting worse and worse

I think ill end up only buying games from stardock

copyrights should not extend to restriction to one computer, thats limiting your property beyond your own license to use it. sounds illegal to me.

I got COH OF also, the copy protection is a little excessive, but it a good game all in all...

Look me up online!

LAN just like online play requires one legal copy of the game per person. But I was talking to Buggo on the Relic Forums and that might change... A LOT of people are mad...

can i have it?

ill give you some of yarleys love

I miss you eet , get it so we can play...

gogamer.com has it for $32.49 shipped!

if i had any money i would love to, but i just spend over $100 on books ^.^

meh... books

I'd love to get it because it sounds like a lot of fun, but I'm selling my Christmas, soul, money and limbs for a new computer that'll spend more time playing it than loading it... shame. But it will be cool getting computer parts under the christmas tree and sticks of RAM in my stocking.

The cd-key is only hurting the paying public for now. It is sad the affect illegal downloads is having on the PC games market.

I wonder how many people who illegally download games do it because of the copy protection? At least they don't need the da-- CD's to run it.

On a personal note, I am about to just about to give up and move to console gaming (with the exception of Stardock games). Copy protection on the PC is just too ridiculous (Bio Shock anyone?). I am sick of being treated like this by game companies. Every game that I have on my computer was legally purchased, and yet, because a group of gamers decide to steal games, I have to be penalized by increasingly frustrating copy protection. Perhaps if all of us gamers just protested by not buying PC games for a month or two(except from Stardock, since with them I do not have this problem), game companies will actually listen to our complaints. Apparently the phrase "the customer is always right" doesn't mean anything, but I'm sure lost revenue will. I do not like having to swap out CD's every time I want to play a different game. All of my new games have scratches on them, while my older ones that I could at the very least use with "Game Drive" do not. I could install them and put the CD's safely away. Also, it seems that I suffer less slowdowns and lag on both of my PCs if they are not constantly having to check for and read a CD. As far as games requiring online activation, what do I do when the activation site possibly ceases to exist some day?

I hate to say it, because I really prefer gaming on the PC, but I think that the good times of PC gaming are coming to an end. When did PC gaming, which is supposed to be a fun and enjoyable hobby, become such a pain in the a--. I mean, what's next?

At least as long as Stardock continues to put out games with their current copy protection policy, I will still have a reason to play games on my PC, but any other PC games coming out in the near future with ridiculous copy protection will not have a place on my PC.

Zimat -- just an FYI, but if you get your games from places like Direct2Drive and (though I hate to say it...) steam, you can avoid the CD-swapping issues. And, as much as I hate to admit it, I don't think those sites are going away any time soon. And D2D / Steam really aren't that intrusive to your system, though steams habit of installing everything inside its own, incredibly obtuse, folder system is annoying.

Hackers always break whatever copy protection games put on in a few days anyways so why bother. Stardock IMHOP is probably less likely to have games illegally downloaded because fewer honest people are likely to get frustrated with all the hoops they have to jump through. I understand why companies want compensation for their work (and in many cases they definitely deserve it) but the PC gaming industry was profitable before stuff like Starforce (aka Satan) and it will still be profitable without that crap. The people getting screwed aren't the game pirates, its the regular customers. I try to do my small part by supporting companies with light to no copy protection (like Stardock w00t!) and scolding any pirate friends of mine about downloading in general and Stardock in particular (even converted a person or two people in Stardock's case at least   ).

IM HOPPING?

IHOP?

In My Humble Opinion's Pony?

I am so using that from now on!

I think you can install it as many copies as you want, just only play one at a time. I don't really see anything wrong with that, other than that copy protection is the spawn of evil etc.

I'm a bit surprised about OF being copy protected "properly" though, as CoH had very simple copy protection (just enter cd-key) and dawn of war had it's cd check removed in a patch. I guess Relic might do the same with OF at a later time though.

Is the pathing still horribly bad? That's like a Relic staple.

Most licenses only allow one install at a time, for whatever reason.

It was never really that bad to begin with, except for vehicles, but didn't notice any real problem in the beta.

Pathing is ok, I've gotten use to it.

I play this game. I like it but I think World in Conflict really killed it because it was like OMG WORLD IN CONFLICT PWNS OMG.

But But... WIC doesn't own

Yeah, to bad World in Conflict was a dud, and only really caters to inane competitive gamers who like doing roughly the same thing every match. I got bored of the shallow, repetitive, chaotic (multi-player), and unbalanced gameplay in few tedious weeks. In addition, I don't even think the game sold very-well and it's rankings aren't very-good from the looks of it.

Note: I remember when World in Conflict was touted as some kind of modern real-time tactical game with realism and so on. To bad they lost the realism, as it surely would have gave the game some real-depth.

Thus far, Opposing Fronts is pretty fun, got to love those British Commandos and their gliders crashing into things as they land.