09.05.2005, 11:13:39
Hm.
I see many people using cracks just to avoid simple problems, which would speak against such a protection.
No-CD-Cracks are actually quite useful as using CDs sucks.
I personally use a CD image of my original CD though.
Plus, people could just copy the cracked exe, restore a backupped original one, patch the game and then restore the crack.
Though probably, people using illegal copies of the game don't have the original exes to backup.
Anyway, I'd really like to support that anti-crack-stuff, but at all, it doesn't seem to be possible.
What we could do: check the serial.
Somebody would have to get a list of serials from the internet (I can do that), send them to Marshall who writes a routine that compares the illegal serials with the one used (it's in the registry, but in another format afaik, so we'd have to find the converting algorithm somehow).
An alternative would be that during the patch installation, people are asked to enter their serial, and then compare it to the illegal ones (so we wouldn't have to figure out the algorithm).
I see many people using cracks just to avoid simple problems, which would speak against such a protection.
No-CD-Cracks are actually quite useful as using CDs sucks.
I personally use a CD image of my original CD though.
Plus, people could just copy the cracked exe, restore a backupped original one, patch the game and then restore the crack.
Though probably, people using illegal copies of the game don't have the original exes to backup.
Anyway, I'd really like to support that anti-crack-stuff, but at all, it doesn't seem to be possible.
What we could do: check the serial.
Somebody would have to get a list of serials from the internet (I can do that), send them to Marshall who writes a routine that compares the illegal serials with the one used (it's in the registry, but in another format afaik, so we'd have to find the converting algorithm somehow).
An alternative would be that during the patch installation, people are asked to enter their serial, and then compare it to the illegal ones (so we wouldn't have to figure out the algorithm).