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Originally Posted by Luvian
A customer shouldn't have to do extensive researches to see if he's going to experience serious problems when buying something as simple as a game, nor should he have to do researches to find out what get secretly installed on his computer.
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The fact that NWN1 had Securom bundled with it was known FIVE years ago, it doesn't take a rocket scientist to figure out that if Atari published NWN1 and it had securom that NWN2 might ALSO have it.
It wasn't a secret Luvian. That is a total misrepresentation of the facts imo.
I just did a simple google search of NWN2 securom and the FIRST hit I got is one for a petition dated september 2006 calling for its removal.
In fact, with all the furor in the past few years over securom and starforce (i think thats the name) buyers SHOULD be asking what type of copy protection is on their software. I won't TOUCH anything with starforce on it. People scan consumer guides ALL the time for even mundane household appliances. You're going to drop 50$ on a game and you don't want to be bothered with doing a web search to check on issues with it?
My biggest issue is with those people who claim that their problems are securom related and offer NO solid proof. In point of fact, RTB falls into that category. He was able to burn cd's on his old machine without problems and yet he had NWN1 AND Securom on that machine. Now with Nwn2, a new machine and probably a revised version of securom there IS a problem. We are expected to take a leap of faith that Securom IS the problem and not something ELSE.
I am NOT unsympathetic to those people who have REAL VERIFIABLE ISSUES with Securom, but I also wonder how many of those alleged cases are in fact ACTUALLY caused by securom.
I will simply ask this. How many people on these forums, aside from possibly RTB, have actually had a verifiable problem with either NWN1 or NWN2 that they can PROVE is directly atrributable to securom?