well I aggree in the period the incription was on dvds, it still is
for some stuff, I had to crack the dvd which I owned to get the audio off.
I have to essentually crack the dvds I own to extract audio anyway,
but encripted is harder.
I don't want to be tied down to the box.
now its all multi import which is another headake I won't mention here.
At 03:13 PM 1/19/2013, you wrote:
Hi Shaun,
Well, the licensing system that Railracer uses is pretty crappy to
begin with. I remember looking into it for some of my own projects a
few years back and I was not at all impressed with it. The first issue
was it wasn't all that accessible, and a lot of .NET developers have
nothing good to say about it from security complaints, buggy code, to
.NET compatibility issues. So I think RR could use some other security
system to be frank about it.
All the same I know what you are getting at. There has to be a balance
between security and end user satisfaction. There is such a thing as
being too secure and it can be a headache if the protection
interferes with the customers lawful use of the software. At a certain
point legal or not cracking does seem like a promising solution just
to get rid of the annoying security system.
Cheers!
On 1/18/13, shaun everiss <[email protected]> wrote:
> Well I aggree with you in that reguard but have my own opinion on
> railracer.
> I am not flaming che or anyone but to be honest to put it politely I
> have been unimpressed with railracer.
> Firstly after the beta was over and life got in the way interest with
> the game tapered off some what.
> Especially with the likes of swamp and tactical battle.
> Long before that though I was having major issues with the online
> activation server.
> The one time activation code was fine so long as I kept the file backed
> up.
> However the program would frequently fail to activate or go online
> especially after dotnet or directx updates and would sometimes just
> plum not work.
> Then rr suddenly stopped licencing itself.
> To top it all off, the fact that pirates made che basically say users
> had to buy the game for each new system really turned me off.
> Yes I have a licence, no I don't want a refund, I got 6 months of
> enjoyment out of the game.
> rr2 is supposed to come out, and to be honest, with all the new stuff
> out its a bit junkey and basic.
> Don't get me wrong it was not crap when it came out like 5 years
> back, for its time it was revolutionary but with the fact I may have
> to keep buying the game for each new system and other junk I don't
> know if i would be willing to repay for the game.
> I think the way blindsoftware does it is good though I have had an
> issue where pipe2 does not seem to want to register that is the
> replacement server doesn't want to find my origional purchace order
> and I need to contact support to get the key replaced manually.
> I think there needs to be a ballence between secure and crazy though.
> In the case of che, with the policy of railracer if the reg system is
> for every comercial game and if the licences are the same as they
> were for railracer 1.0 years back I doubt if I will ever buy the game
> or legally play it ever for the simple reason that to buy a game I
> have already purchaced because I need to buy a code for each system
> I play on especially when I only have only 1 or 2 units I mainly play
> on well mostly 1, is a real turn off.
> And to be honest with other licencing systems out there well you be
> the judge on that one.
> I won't outright say the game was crap and I didn't get what I payed
> for because I did to a point.
> Its the principal that counts though.
>
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