Zef
Recruit
Well...
I'd never heard of your game up 'til last night or so, when I happened to spot a reference to it while doing my nightly browsing. It looked great, and after a few quick searches I was dying to try M&B out.
Fast forward->
I download your setup directly from the site, do the mandatory virus check, install the game; run it and linger a bit on the pre-menu that pops up.
After maybe 10-15 seconds, another game I'm running crashes and M&B closes. The crash was not due to hardware restrictions, nor resources being unavailable - it was whichever hack protection you're using in M&B.
In this case, M&B's protection and GameGuard felt the need to destroy eachother, leaving me with a messed up box and forcing me to reboot. I can only imagine the issues that -could- have occured with the RIDICULOUS priviledges these hack protection schemes are running with.
In addition to this, it also makes norton stop responding for me (I'll deactivate it, attempt to run the game, makes no difference - it completely messes up NIS).
After all this, M&B wouldn't even load the menu anymore. It simply loaded up and did nothing (while staying in the process list).
I've no right to tell you what to do, I'm not yet a paying customer and (considering I can't play it without dedicating my box solely to your game and uninstalling background services I don't -want- to uninstall) I probably never will be due to the above, but you really should reconsider having this "protection". It's bad enough with cd protection on any game I buy refusing to read properly, or refusing to play as a normal music cd (in the case of audio cds)... or mmorpg's patching in protections which lead to more security holes on the actual box it runs on than removing security holes in -gameworld- it "protects".
Now I can't even play a demo of a game that's not even, apparantly, part of the commerical 'big business' (of which we've grown to expect these ridiculous changes) without looking at a potential system hard crash.
I really am sorry if this sounds insulting, but injecting these hack protection schemes is not something that should be promoted (they are hazardous POS apps that do more bad than good for everyone involved), and in this case it literally removed a potential customer before I could even try the actual gameplay. (after causing me stress and annoyance, I might add)
No hard feelings, no offense intended, just giving you my opinion and my advice.
I'd never heard of your game up 'til last night or so, when I happened to spot a reference to it while doing my nightly browsing. It looked great, and after a few quick searches I was dying to try M&B out.
Fast forward->
I download your setup directly from the site, do the mandatory virus check, install the game; run it and linger a bit on the pre-menu that pops up.
After maybe 10-15 seconds, another game I'm running crashes and M&B closes. The crash was not due to hardware restrictions, nor resources being unavailable - it was whichever hack protection you're using in M&B.
In this case, M&B's protection and GameGuard felt the need to destroy eachother, leaving me with a messed up box and forcing me to reboot. I can only imagine the issues that -could- have occured with the RIDICULOUS priviledges these hack protection schemes are running with.
In addition to this, it also makes norton stop responding for me (I'll deactivate it, attempt to run the game, makes no difference - it completely messes up NIS).
After all this, M&B wouldn't even load the menu anymore. It simply loaded up and did nothing (while staying in the process list).
I've no right to tell you what to do, I'm not yet a paying customer and (considering I can't play it without dedicating my box solely to your game and uninstalling background services I don't -want- to uninstall) I probably never will be due to the above, but you really should reconsider having this "protection". It's bad enough with cd protection on any game I buy refusing to read properly, or refusing to play as a normal music cd (in the case of audio cds)... or mmorpg's patching in protections which lead to more security holes on the actual box it runs on than removing security holes in -gameworld- it "protects".
Now I can't even play a demo of a game that's not even, apparantly, part of the commerical 'big business' (of which we've grown to expect these ridiculous changes) without looking at a potential system hard crash.
I really am sorry if this sounds insulting, but injecting these hack protection schemes is not something that should be promoted (they are hazardous POS apps that do more bad than good for everyone involved), and in this case it literally removed a potential customer before I could even try the actual gameplay. (after causing me stress and annoyance, I might add)
No hard feelings, no offense intended, just giving you my opinion and my advice.
