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>On Sun, 18 Mar 2007, Xocyll wrote:
>
>> A disc check isn't _copy_ protection.
>
>For me disk check is a way to copy-protected PC Games hence a
>copy-protection, but I know many do actually see "copy-protection"
>when the actual disk has some scheme that prevents it from being
>copied
>
>I will still use the "term", copy-protection even when there is only a
>simple "CD check"
> 
>> Patch it, notice a huge difference.
>
>For me no, for me huge difference is not making me insert the disk
>each time I want to play a game

You just don't get it do you.  It had BAD protection, so bad that it
wasn't simply a cd-check when you start the game, it did something more,
something that caused a HUGE performance drop, making the game pretty
much unplayable on low end machines and slow on even the best.

So Bethesda, unlike many other game companies, ditched the copy
protection.
 
>> Did you buy the original release or a later "gold" release or budget
>> release (since you seem to buy lots of those.)
>
>Not my type of game but its an important title and its first person
>Have the "Game of the year edition"...
>I would have bought more units including more GOTY and the budget if
>Bethesda removed the need for disk inserted when playing

So you missed out on it and have no idea what it was like.

>> Only the original release had the truly horrible protection as far as I
>> know.
>
>Bottom line, for me its the same, I still need to put the disk each
>time I want to play which is annoying and inconvenient
>Bad move by Bethesda... I guess they have shares in CD Drive
>manufactures and blank CDs for recorders
>
>id and Epic remove the STUPID disk check from their old games which is
>a sign of "class", Bethesda doesn't which shows they don't have it

And they did this "class" move how long after the games came out?

>Will sure spend more money with "The Mark" then with Morrowind and
>whose fault is it? Bethesda!

No, that fault is completely yours.

You didn't buy the game when it first came out (against your own
dictum.)
And you're going to spend money on a crap game just because it has no
cd-check - that's insanity.  You are quite literally throwing away that
money, because the company is still not going to sell enough units for
their shit to be truly profitable, because it's shit.

All you might do, if enough people followed your lead, is to keep a BAD
game studio, without the ability to design and implement a good game,
alive for a little bit longer.

All that's likely to do is waste resources that could have gone to
talented game designers instead.

And for what, the lack of a cd-check - have you no care at all for the
quality of a game?

Honestly, your behavior is about the same as someone who chooses what
kind of car to buy based on nothing but the Hood Ornament.

Xocyll
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