StarForce Must Die
The Escapist has written an article on the world’s most hated copy protection.
In any forum topic about StarForce, embittered players across the spectrum speak in one voice about crippled operating systems and ruined CD drives. Many players report they bought honest, legal copies of StarForce-protected games, could not make them run and finally, in desperation, visited pirate sites to download no-CD cracks or warez versions. A dominant theme in these posts is resentment toward StarForce and game publishers for screwing up their customers’ computers without warning. Publisher representatives seldom post to apologize or ask details.
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- Boycott Starforce keeps a running blog and has a list of games and publishers that continue to use StarForce
- Another site urging you to boycott StarForce-protected games
- Boing Boing’s reaction to being bullied with legal threats for criticizing StarForce
- At least one publisher has dumped StarForce due to the public outcry and a $5 million lawsuit brought on by gamers with crippled machines
