well... non-legit copies joining legit servers

Post by **Foo** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 10:23 am

Pincus wrote:
Yeah, so in other words the real online agorithm is a stricter version, with less outcomes... Correct?

Close enough to think of it that way, yes. By a magnitude of like 1 million to one or something, I would guess.

Post by **phantasmagoria** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 10:43 am

I played Quake3 using my friends CD key for about 6 months without a problem, we even used to play on the same server.

Post by **Foo** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 10:48 am

Q3 let you use a CD-Key twice at once. They set that up a while after it was released tho.

I think it was to make moving between servers easier.

Post by **Lenard** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 11:40 am

Are you guys kidding? I never buy games. That is a waste of money. I have the internet.

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 11:53 am

Lenard wrote:Are you guys kidding? I never buy games. That is a waste of money. I have the internet.

Welcome home.

Post by **Massive Quasars** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 11:53 am

Bait-and-switch.

Post by **Rogue** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 1:28 pm

Whilst playing online lastnight i seen a few people ask if anyone actually paid for the game....

Hope its fixed, ppl who dont care about their GUID (ppl who didnt buy the game) will prolly use cheats.

Post by **q4aholic** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 1:41 pm

what the hell? hahaa...thats the stupidest "stereotype" i've heard in ages.

maybe they downloaded the game to save 60. i doub tthey decided to download it jjust to cheat. christ.

Post by **TwR|Slice** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 1:52 pm

The problem i had with q3 was that i couldn't play online because my key was already in use... those keygenerators can generate leagal keys and than poeple(like me) cannot play although they bought the game.
I reported the problem to id but nevergot an answer

Post by **Freakaloin** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 1:55 pm

who cares! don't worry about other ppl and just live ur lives...

Post by **Rogue** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 2:33 pm

q4aholic wrote:what the hell? hahaa...thats the stupidest "stereotype" i've heard in ages.

maybe they downloaded the game to save 60. i doub tthey decided to download it jjust to cheat. christ.

I said probably.

Post by **Lenard** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 5:29 pm

Don't worry, I can't even run it.

Post by **f00dl3** » Sat Oct 22, 2005 5:40 pm

As much as I hate to say it - I buy all my computer games from Best Buy. While they do have some rather interesting business practices (and their Geek Squad sucks), they have a nice big selection of games.

Unfortantaly, since I buy my games, I give away all my rights to produce backup copy of the game incase 1 of the the 4 CD-ROMs gets damaged.

I'm seriously thinking of switching over to an X-Box or some other console verry soon - all this copy protection crap, CD keys getting longer and longer each day - having to reherse 100 alphanumeric characters to read to Microsoft over the phone to re-install Windows XP for the Xth time, and all this Digital Restrictions Management, all this "You can't backup a CD that you bought" shit...

With an X-Box, you never have to enter a product keycode. Never have to worry bout paying $400 for a good video card, and don't have to worry about updates.