Victoria 2 demo

[goodwoodrw]

Bamilus,
I agree whole heartedly, V2 leaves you between a rock and a hard place, I to have in excess of ten games if you bundle addons and games. I would love to walk away from PI in protest, but it may or may not happen, I would like to think I can. I have had a reply to my private mail from the moderator who gave me the warning or at least the head honcho of Moderators. He believes I'm not owed an apology. I am currently penning a letter of complaint to PI asking for an apology or a refund for V2, not confident for either. V2 would be nice to play (actually not playing at the moment until the Rebel issue is fixed), but there are plenty of game companies willing to offer better service and relations than PI and those companies can have my bucks. As I said in an above post I am quite bitter about this. I have no intentions of running around the country bad mouthing PI, however if someone on any the forums that frequent ask an opinion about any of their games, I have had played, I'm sure I will offer a factual honest opinion of my experiences.
Footnote: I would like express an appreciation to Matrixgames for letting me and others express our opinions on this forum, and I guess while comment factual, relevant and non offensive, there be no reason why good constructive should be banned on this forum or any other thank you
Ron Watterson

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[Greybriar]

ORIGINAL: 33Vyper

What kind of copy protection does the game have?

CD in drive? Or some silly log in thing?

Johan posted quite some time back that all in-house Paradox titles would be DRM-free. If that has changed, I missed it. AFAIK the only copy protection in-house Paradox titles have is registering them on the Paradox forums, which grants you access to the Technical Support forums.

@BASB: I've had a couple of run-ins with the moderators there. I think a lot of it results from a language barrier. I would let it go if I were you. It's really in your best interest not to get banned from the Paradox forums.

[diablo1]

Well there is sort of a DRM scheme. If you buy on Gamersgate a Paradox title you still have to phone home to activate it everytime you reinstall it.

[Greybriar]

ORIGINAL: diablo1

Well there is sort of a DRM scheme. If you buy on Gamersgate a Paradox title you still have to phone home to activate it everytime you reinstall it.

I was referring to the retail boxed Paradox games. GamersGate is a separate entity. According to MobyGames: "GamersGate AB is a worldwide digital distribution portal which was launched in April 2006 by Paradox Interactive. Theodore Bergquist is President and CEO of GamersGate as well as Paradox Interactive AB.

GamersGate acquires the gaming rights from the original publishers or developing companies in the form of licenses or complete brands. Then the games, originally available only on retail store shelves, are re-released and are available for purchase by download...."

[bairdlander2]

ORIGINAL: diablo1

Well there is sort of a DRM scheme. If you buy on Gamersgate a Paradox title you still have to phone home to activate it everytime you reinstall it.

Thats bullshit,I never had a problem reinstalling a Paradox game from GG

[06 Maestro]

ORIGINAL: bairdlander

ORIGINAL: diablo1

Well there is sort of a DRM scheme. If you buy on Gamersgate a Paradox title you still have to phone home to activate it everytime you reinstall it.

Thats bullshit,I never had a problem reinstalling a Paradox game from GG

I have 4 PI games from GG. Each one has been reinstalled a few times. I have never had a problem with that procedure-and never have had to do anything more than log into my GG account and download the game.

Participating in the OT forum seems similar to walking through a minefield-but the mines are canned clowns that popped up and yell "gotcha!" It gets old. I appreciate the real members who drive on here regardless of the canned clowns.

[JudgeDredd]

ORIGINAL: 06 Maestro
...and never have had to do anything more than log into my GG account and download the game.

You don't even have to do that if you select the option to leave the "temporary files" on the disk [:)]

[martok]

ORIGINAL: diablo1

Well there is sort of a DRM scheme. If you buy on Gamersgate a Paradox title you still have to phone home to activate it everytime you reinstall it.

Huh? When I had to re-download EU3:HTTT (after my computer crashed), I didn't need to do anything more than log into my account.

[Widell]

Same here. Have installed on new computers with fresh d/l's as well as reinstalled on old ones using the temporary files option. Never had to do anything, specially not call anyone, which would, IMHO, seem kind of .

[JudgeDredd]

Two things...
First off, the fact that you have to sign into your account means you have to phone home
Second, he didn't mean physically call...

Though you are correct in that if you do not remove the "temporary" files, then you don't even have to sign in as far as I know.

[htuna]

I believe when I went to install CMSF on my second computer, even though I copied the files.. I had to 'sign in' at the beginning of the setup (just didn't need to download again).. this was before the installation and Activation with Battlefront...