Last week Ubisoft officially confirmed it will stop using Starforce copy protection on it's upcoming games. The official reason being, 'user complaints'. Maybe the lawsuit that gamers filed agains Ubisoft has something to do with it. Anyway, this is strike one. And remember, oh dear Starforce, strike three and you're out :pThat being said, it seems the russian company is losing ground in copy protection world. In my opinion this is a good thing for gamers but also for Ubisoft. Starforce is having a lot of bad press lately, as you might have noticed on my blog :p It's only a matter of time when the few remaining studios / publishers follow suit. As a matter of fact, with Ubisoft ditching Starforce, the only big and wellknown publisher using SF, that I can name off the top of my head, is Codemasters. I sincerely hope they also move to another copy protection scheme. They have some nice franchises like DTM Race Driver and Colin McRae Rally, luckily these are also released on consoles :)
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