Dreamcatcher's dirty trick - beware of Painkiller!

Vonkhan

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Caught this over at rage3d: http://rage3d.com/board/showthread.php?s=&threadid=33752247


From what I gather, this is spreading like wild fire now, sounds like a dirty trick by DreamCatcher. Anyways, your thoughts. I won't be buying the game, since I have a LG HL-DT-ST RW/DVD-ROM drive. It's a 2003 model.



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Anybody who plans to buy this game: HOLD ON, DON'T DO IT YET! Wait and see!

It seems Painkiller is going to be the biggest game copy protectionb scandal in the history: the Painkiller game IS NOT working AT ALL with a DOZEN drive, including the widely used (HP, Compaq, Dell) OEM LG drives!

The current list, compiled by me - PAINKILLER DOESN'T WORK WITH THE FOLLOWING DRIVES:

# Pan International CyberDrive 240
# ASUS CD-S400
# M a t s h i t a CR-581-B
# Philips CDD2000
# LG GDR-8161B - this is in the majority drive in xwX000-family HP WS, also known as
# HL-DT-ST DVD-ROM GDR8161B
# Toshiba HL-DT-STDVD-ROM GDR-8081N (2002 sept laptop drive)
# LG HL-DT-ST DVD-RAM GMA-4020B Apr 2003 IDE (internal drive) - probably none of these LGs are working
# HL-ST-DVDRAM GSA-4081 - I bought it weeks ago, this is that 8x DVD+/-R/RW/RAM drive!
# YAMAHA CRW-F1E - the tattoo drive

and still counting!

Dreamcatcher, the publisher of Painkiller title DID NOTHING BEFORE ITS RELEASE, although they KNEW THIS PROBLEM VERY WELL, as they made a small topic on their web forum on April 5th, 48 hours before the game arrived to the stores.

It's safe to say it was a malicious move to hide the truth as long as they can, avoid hurting their sales - even they knew already they're shipping a defective game.

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Here's that April 5th thread over at DreamCatcher's forum:
http://dreamcatcherinteractive.com/forums/showthread.php?threadid=15988


warez :heart:
 

Gunbuster

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I hate safedisc, even when it "works" the drive is churning for 30 seconds as it reads the intentional errors on the CD

Just make a good online game and use a cdkey!
 

UnatcoAgent

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You posted the exact same thing at sharky's. I think if I was even planning on buying this game I would wait to hear this from a major gaming news site and not a random informant, no offence.
 

vi edit

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Originally posted by: Pepsei
Buy it and then by pass the protection with a nocd exe.

Won't do any good if the drive doesn't even recognize the game to install it.
 
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Teh Oh Noesx0rz!

*small 50kb patch is released*

Oh, wait. Problem solved.

Edit - If the program won't install, throw in an alternative installer.exe in the patch.

- M4H
 

BurnItDwn

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I think I'll actually buy this one ... between the 8 or 9 optical drives I have here, at least one will work right :)

Besides , the demo for this game is one of the best demos I had ever played. I LOVE the physics of this game.
 

Vonkhan

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Originally posted by: Magnum375
You posted the exact same thing at sharky's. I think if I was even planning on buying this game I would wait to hear this from a major gaming news site and not a random informant, no offence.

what drug u on, son? i dont post at sharky's :p