Georg Zoeller
Senior Technical Designer
Joined: 27 May 2003
From: Austin, TX
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 Posted: Friday, 28 May 2004 04:52PM
Quote: Posted 05/28/04 16:41:47 (GMT) by eyesolated
that's probably because FADE (that was the name of the protection system) was never confirmed to be active in the game by anyone else than Codemasters. In the end, it seemed like a huge marketing gag to scare off pirates. Try a google on that matter, i am sure you'll find tons of discussions as to wheter FADE was in the game or not.
Interesting concept, but i don't think they really implemented it.
I came to the conclusion that it was a nice marketing ploy. It has a drawback however - people will start to blame any gameplay problem they have on faulty copy protection (even if there is one).
And even if there was a copy protection that would work that way in your game, you would get swamped with technical support requests by people who were running it off nocd cracks, etc and found gameplay deteriorating (most likely not even knowing why).
So while the whole thing sounds like a good idea on the first glance, it has the potential to cause far more support trouble than worth it.
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