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Article #697919Re: What Have You Been Playing... IN MAY 2017?
From: rri... Ross Ridge
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2017 17:02
Date: Tue, 06 Jun 2017 17:02
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Xocyll <Xoc...@gmx.com> wrote: >I do hope that your copy is legit and is fully recognized as such. > >X2 had a very sneaky anti-piracy routine I read about back in the day >(you had to register for their website in order to download apps for the >game (in game routines for automation etc) and people would get caught >out for having pirated copies by their complaints.) Ah, I wasn't aware of that. I'm playing the Steam version of the game. I don't think this should be an issue any more as Egosoft removed the copy protection completely in their 1.4 patch. Even the Steam version I'm playing doesn't seem to use Steam's copy protection. Ross Ridge -- l/ // Ross Ridge -- The Great HTMU [oo][oo] rri...@csclub.uwaterloo.ca -()-/()/ http://www.csclub.uwaterloo.ca/~rridge/ db //
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