...we still hope that larian's next gen rpg will generate enough money to justify another sequel in the future.i just hope that larian is reading this post to know how much its fans stand by their loyalty
Wouldn't it be better to hope that their next RPG is
good enough to generate sales? Larian, in my view, had a fairly good initial product (Divine Divinity) but with a dismal followup (Beyond Divinity).
As such, I won't be rushing for their next RPG until it has gained considerable (and credible) positive feedback. And not at all if it uses obnoxious CD-checks (Divine Divinity is the
only game I've encountered that
has problems with a no-cd patch) or online activation.
From what I've heard about BD, I can assume that Larian will definitely learn from the issues and use that experience to create another quality product. After all, what kinda company would squander all that money for nothing? <img src="/ubbthreads/images/graemlins/smile.gif" alt="" />
You only faced these issues with BD? You must be really lucky. I've had friends who'd problems with cd/online checks from games like Still Life, Ankh, Half Life2, Dreamfall, Splinter Cell: Double Agent and many other various type of games including indie games. When they tested the cds on various computers, the same problem occurred for many of the games, no matter how much hardware was disconnected/replaced or how many modifications they made to the o/s.
Do note that the cds were original and cost quite a bit and the hardware was quite new too. (Edit: They often ended up using no-cd hacks to circumvent these issues. After all, time is a resource and if the technical support isn't that helpful, then you'd want to try another method so you can play the game.)
There're still many games which use Securecom and Starforce and other types of crappy protection. Chaos knows what kinda suffering those poor gamers have to go through.
