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In a fitting comeuppance for the nexus of evil known as Starforce, Ubisoft has wiped Heroes of Might and Magic V free of the malware and won't use it in future copy protection. The bad, bad, bad anti-piracy system is pimped by Russian gangsters, so unscrupulous that they offer nay-sayers free knuckle sandwiches in some Moscow warehouse. A $5 mil class action lawsuit was brought against Ubi for using loathsome Starforce DRM in their games back in 2004 and continued to be publicly berated for using it. The company took a hint. Do we hate Starforce? Yes, and now so does Ubisoft.
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Thank God is right....I'm so looking forward to HOMM V and Starforce may have made me think twice about getting it...
This is great news, on a variety of levels. Companies are hearing customer complaints, and as big names start ditching Starforce it might start a huge "abandon ship." Now I just wish Ubi would release patches to remove the Starforce protection from the games they've already released, so I could maybe buy them and play them without risking my PC.
Ubisoft made the right choice for themselves, and their customers in general. This is excellent news, so I hope more publishers follow suit and drop support for Starforce.
Am I the only one who likes Starforce?
Yes your the only one who likes that crap. I do not want to pay for a game and then have my poor computer get screwed because of starforces lackluster codeing. Also as a pirater i love the fact that HOMM V won't have starforce...means the game will be able to be cracked sooner and on my machine much faster. I focus my dollers on my son and my ds...not overpriced PC games
KILL IT BEFORE IT STARTS INSTEAD OF A PIECE OF SOFTWARE IT USES AN ONBOARD CHIP THAT LOCKS OUT THE USER COMPLETELY AND CAN ALLOW COMPANIES TO LOCK OUT COMPETING SOFTWARE
look up nexus on wikapedia or Next-Generation Secure Computing Base
The Next-Generation Secure Computing Base (NGSCB), formerly known as Palladium, is a software architecture designed by Microsoft which is expected to implement controversial parts of their "Trustworthy Computing" concept on future versions of the Microsoft Windows operating system
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