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Date: 06 Sep 1994 00:35:00 +0200
From: carsten@therapy.ping.de (Carsten Buchenau)
Newsgroups: alt.games.doom
Message-ID: <5WK0gFEQ0rB@therapy.ping.de>
References: <1994Sep5.132612.15629@ericsson.se>
Subject: Re: DOOM II editors and QUAKE editors
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> Thanks to all who won't buy Doom II and use their pirate copy instead!
> You are really smart! You know what? I have the feeling that Quake
> will be copy-protected, with encrypted files, etc. This means that all
> users will have to be bothered with codes (to be found in the manual) or
> other copy-protection schemes. Great!
>
Well... nothing to mention :-)
> And (this is the most important part IMHO), there might never be any
> Quake editor, because the file format will use multiple levels of
> encryption and checksums, etc. Do you think that id Software will take
> the risks to be pirated once again? No. They will protect their next
> program (Quake) as much as they can, and we will all loose!
>
> The worst thing is that it probably won't stop pirates, who will
> distribute a copy of the manual, or a list of codes, or whatever, with
> their illegal copy of the program. This will just harm people who are
> currently having fun with Doom (registered copies _and_ illegal copies,
> because Doom 1 was pirated too) and with the Doom editors. Maybe there
> will never be anything like that again.
>
> I read in a paper (official study) that more than 50% of the programs
> currently in use in the world are illegal copies (this goes up to 95% in
> South America and some parts of Asia). There is no excuse for that, but
> at least I can understand why (money). But now, not only do we see
> morons who make illegal copies of a program, but they are proud of it!
> If have two reasons to be angry (or really sad, for that matter): first,
> people are pirating Doom (and don't tell me that you will buy it when it
> is available, because in most cases this is not true!); second, they post
> messages about it, to make sure that id Software will be pissed off!
> Even if I had an illegal copy of Doom II (I don't, trust me), I wouldn't
> post messages about it. Oh, people are soooo stupid!
>
ts ts.... I think you doen't see what's going on on the software market...
First of all: IT'S NO PROBLEM FOR MANY PIRATES TO UNPROTECT THE CODE-
PROTECTIONS ! Remember: Indy Car Racing / Yellow Point CD
(released in Germany)
THEN: ALL new and GOOD games will be published on CD-ROM ! Look at
WING COMMANDER III (I think it'll come on x-mas)....
So THAT'S the way the firms will protect their products: They will make a
hugh enviroment to the game that it's nearly *IMPOSSIBLE* to get it via
Modem (probably there are some guys who wanna transfer over 500 megs ...
well ... happy telephone bill) !
So: In my opinion it's just a matter of time ID will produce their games
on CD-ROM too. OK - QUAKE will come on disks ... and it WILL be pirated...
but what'll be AFTER QUAKE ??? I say: A Shareware Version on disks and a
HUGH registered version on CD-ROM ! Wait for it ... :-)
AND NOW THINK ABOUT THE FOLLOWING:
----------------------------------
Did you ever grumble about WHY DOOM I and DOOM II got pirated ?
Probably it is a very intelligent strategy from ID-SOFT... Think about
this: IT was ID who pirated DOOM ! Why? Well... it's straight on the hand:
EVERYBODY gets it ! Everybody plays DOOM ! Ok - it's pirated... BUT : EVEN
ID can't stop pirating ! If they would have tryed to make it save for
pirating they had already included copy protections ! But what did they do
? they included anti-pirating messages and said that they'll bring pirates
to court... NONSENS ! This is to make you fell bad.. and than filling out
the registering form ! And so DOOM I was bought more often than WINDOWS
3.1 !!!! YES !!!!!!!!
So.... think about this ! Buying the software is GOOD - but don't blame
the pirates for something, that is - in my opinion - the way, ID-SOFT
tryes to get the biggest and widest spread software producer in the world
!
l8er and happy killing.... Carsten
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