Comments on: Product Key Game

by: Muhammad

Mon, 04 Feb 2008 12:27:45 +0000

I was re-installing Neverwinter Nights 2 and I remembered this post of yours Luke.

CD keys are a huge b*tch! NWN2 has 7 sets of 5 letters, printed on the inside of the manual. If you lose the manual, that’s it. I had to dig it out from the dusty box. And i STILL have to put in the DVD in the drive each time I play (but hooray for daemon tools and cracked images!). Feels like I’m getting punished for buying and supporting the game.

Why can’t all games run like Gal Civ 2?

by: Luke Maciak

Sat, 02 Feb 2008 01:02:52 +0000

Nope - not a challenge at all. There are two solutions here and both are trivial:

1. install linux and give up on games and proprietary software

2. use only cracked software

by: Matt`

Sat, 02 Feb 2008 00:09:37 +0000

A slightly larger challenge would be to do as much as possible in your computing life, all without ever entering a product key.

Although for that, just load up on open source software and it’ll be plain sailing.

by: Luke Maciak

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 04:45:49 +0000

I was kinda going for the satirical angle here - you know, poking fun at the really silly Product Key concept here… I hate these damn things.

Besides, your game is not really a game - it contains no element of challenge and you can’t really lose at it. You see a computer, you install Linux or BSD flavor on it and move to the next one, no?

by: Craig Betts

Fri, 01 Feb 2008 04:37:00 +0000

I have a better game . . .

See how many computers you can load an OS on without entering a product key!

I am ten for ten today!