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ET: Quake Wars by Aspyr

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AnthroAndStargate

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I legally bought Aspyr's Enemy Territory: Quake Wars this week only to be depressed to find that it has the stupid thing where you have to have the CD in to launch the game.

WTF? The Windows AND LINUX versions dont have this as its pointless since you have to have a CD Key to login and play anyway.

Does anyone know of a way to get around this, be it nocd or otherwise? Like I said this is a legally purchased copy so please dont say "thats wrong blah blah". I bought the game and I'd like to play it without keeping the DVD in my drive 24/7 or right next to me. Putting in a DVD is a pain IMHO.

Is there a way to burn the DVD and make a mini iso out of it in Mac? I do this for windows with my BF2 discs, not sure if its possible on Mac.

Anyhelp would be greatly appreciated?

BTW does anyone else play this game in OSX ?
 
I'm not going to say exactly where to get a crack here, but after doing a search, i can tell you that it is available at some of the usual sources.
 
Originally posted by: Kmax82
I'm curious, how's it running, performance-wise?
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I cant tell. either i jacked my settings and am imagining things or its a bit laggy.

I still haven't found a nocd either - they recently updated to ver 1.5 and I dont think one exists. i guess there is no way to make a mini iso of the disk? 🙁

Its a REALLY fun game though, if I can get the settings right I'll let you know.
 
you should beable to make an ISO and mount it to a virtiual drive, or atleast try before attempting to fnd a crack. I'm not too fimilar with apple but this should be doable without much effort and works for every game I have aside from SupCom for some reason. Just sucks haveing a HDD full of ISO's but thats the price I pay for being lazy and gaming a lot.
 
I'd suggest those of you feel the same way e-mail them something similar to feedback@aspyr.com
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To Whom It May Concern:

I am writing to express my disappointment in your decision to require ET: QW (Quake Wars) to require the DVD in the drive to start up. Quake Wars on Windows and Linux does not require the CD in, only your Mac port. It has been argued time and time again by all gamers that this is a ridiculous measure of copy protection.

You are punishing normal gamers like myself who LEGALLY pay and buy your software, while only make a small nuisance for people who pirate it (go on the internet right now, you can find any number of "no cd" cracks to over ride your copy protection.) I am sick and tired of having to put the CD in every time I want to play. It puts wear and tear on my drive, it makes my system slower because every time I open up Finder it has to spin up the CD (if I leave it in the drive).

What is worse is you are unduly punishing Mac users with your port when the ORIGINAL game doesn't require a CD. The login system that verifies your account name is all the copy protection you need.

Suffice to say I wanted to express my anger at this decision and let you know I will not be purchasing any more Aspyr games if this is how you all operate. It makes me upset because I wanted to support Mac gaming and was looking forward to buying CoD 4 from you. Perhaps I would change my mind if you released a patch update to disable the CD copy protection (like Blizzard did with the OS X version of Warcraft III).

If you are interested, go to http;//forums.macrumours.com and click on Apple Games. There you will find MANY threads lamenting, bashing, and bemoaning your use of copy protection which punishes people who legally buy your games and just want to relax and play them. Does not look good for business.

I am sorry for my harsh e-mail, but I paid a lot of money for your product and intended to pay a lot more for your other products, but I think I will go to MacSoft now as they do not include the archaic "enter DVD/CD in drive" method.

Thank you.

Merged with your other topic on the subject.

- Apple Mod Aphex
 
Originally posted by: sourceninja
It is sad when the state of linux gaming makes mac look bad.
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QFT lol. Send Aspyr a letter if you feel so inclined. I cross posted it on Mac Rumours. If enough of us send them stuff they will re-evaluate how they are doing business hopefully.
 
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