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Re: A refreshing take on PC games piracy..
Originally Posted by scarbunny
The game that took the longest was Bioshock but that was still cracked after a week or so.
Splinter Cell Chaos Theory in the bad old days of starforce took ages - come to think of it for a while starforce really did stop the pirates (because it was written by ex-pirates). Sadly it also (apparently) killed drives or didn't work for legit consumers. Oh and it was a root kit.
Originally Posted by scarbunny
On a side note I will never be a fan of DD, i want something real for my money, unless it is stupidly cheap, which it never is I remmeber seeing Bioshock for something like £45 on steam when it was only £17.99 on Play.com
Yeah it's annoying how Steam is (probably) hamstrung by traditional publishers forcing them to keep prices up. Or they're greedy. One of them I guess 
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