Silent Storm Gold $9.99 at CompUSA

[Dominionion]

This was just online for a couple of weeks, but is now instore too.

Silent Storm Gold

 

[DaveSimmons]

Fun game and nice visuals, though the RPG aspects of Jagged Alliance 2 are much better.


Edit: Starforce copy protection alert for those who live in fear of it.

 

[Elixer]

Originally posted by: DaveSimmons
Fun game and nice visuals, though the RPG aspects of Jagged Alliance 2 are much better.


Edit: Starforce copy protection alert for those who live in fear of it.

Yeah, so for $10 +tax, you get to have your machine infected by starforce.:disgust:

The gold version has original game + the expansion for those that don't know.

 

[CtlAltl33t]

Man, Starforce issues aside, this is a GREAT GAME! HOT DEAL

Edit: also $9.99 on Amazon.com

http://www.amazon.com/gp/product/B000BN.../002-6980615-5225653?v=glance&n=468642

 

[FightingChance]

Arghhh, I loved the idea of this game, but Starforce kills it for me. Curses!

 

[ParatoOptimal]

What does Starforce do to your computer?

 

[CtlAltl33t]

Originally posted by: ParatoOptimal
What does Starforce do to your computer?

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/StarForce#Controversy

 

[ParatoOptimal]

Thanks, CtlAltl33t.

It's interesting that Starforce can "kill optical drives."

I've recently had a CD-RW drive and later a CD-ROM drive "die."

I checked the list and I haven't used any of the games listed.

I have used NUMEROUS music discs.

Could something on music discs kill optical drives as Starforce does?

I'm doing a system search to see if any of the Starforce drivers are on my system.

 

[CtlAltl33t]

If you've had problems with music discs, then chances are you're dealing with Sony's rootkit which is probably even more notorious than Starforce.

http://www.boingboing.net/2005/11/14/sony_anticustomer_te.html

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2005_Sony_CD_copy_protection_controversy

Basically, you're more than likely going to need to format/reinstall to recover but good luck!

 

[nealh]

this why I buy very few games..I do almost 0 gaming..I do want crap put on my computer despite the fact we have the right if we purchase the game top back it up

Pure crap when these companies put malicious crap out there....

Shame I like to game but game costs are up and too much spyware/malware

 

[Thump553]

The ironic thing is that (according to the Wikipedia article linked above) every single game that has been released with the Starforce protection has been cracked and is available as warez. So the only people being hurt are the legal customers.

 

[ParatoOptimal]

I checked a list of Sony Rootkit discs on CDFreaks.

I've used none of those discs.

I have used a couple of BMG.Sony discs not in that list.

I may have used one of the listed discs but held the shift key down durring loading.

I ran a rootkit detector a while back and posted the results on CDF and was told nothing wsa found.

I've dl'd other dtectors that I'll run soon.

I'm going to put those drives in another system.

If they're detected, a reformat.install of OS and all programs is in my future.

Let me know if you can think of anything else.

 

[you2]

I use to think this starforce stuff was overkill but now I'm a firm believer of avoiding it. My system has no dvd-rw unit but it causes frequent hangs on my harddisk that forces reboot when I run non-starforce software (i.e., morrowind). Finally figured out the problem - no more starforce - no more hangs.