BetrayerX used our news submit to tell us about a new game called Painkiller that is probably going to wind up in the contraversial protection catagory. It is reportedly not working in many drives. There are rumblings that the problem was identified prior to release and no action was taken. You can visit this thread to read some more about this protection scheme.
Anybody who wanted to buy this game: HOLD ON! DON"T BUY IT!You have a good chance its not gonna work in your machine! Due to its copy protection, this game IS NOT working AT ALL with a DOZEN drive, including the widely used (HP, Compaq, Dell) OEM LG drives! I compiled the current list - still counting:
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This story is also at Warp2Search with many comments. There is a pretty lively thread over at Beyond3D as well. Maybe this would be a good topic for discussion over in our Copy Protection Forum.
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