I did something similar with Doom 3.
When I got my preordered copy, put it in the drive and found it wouldn't work because of Deamon tools installed on my PC, I just put it back in the box and downloaded a cracked version using bittorrent.
"No problem with that" you might say as I bought a copy so ID software got paid for their work - except that while downloading it bittorent uploaded almost 2 copies worth, just one more example of how excessive copy protection actually hurts the games industry.
Note: I use Deamon tools because my DVD drive has run out of region changes (I live in the UK and watch an approximatly 50:50 mix of region 1 and 2 DVDs as anime is usually released region 1 long before region 2 and I'm too impatient to wait) and there are not any firmware updates available yet to workaround this. So to watch a DVD from a different region I have to rip it and mount the ISO.
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I did something similar with Doom 3. When I got my preordered copy, put it in the drive and found it wouldn't work because of Deamon tools installed on my PC, I just put it back in the box and downloaded a cracked version using bittorrent. "No problem with that" you might say as I bought a copy so ID software got paid for their work - except that while downloading it bittorent uploaded almost 2 copies worth, just one more example of how excessive copy protection actually hurts the games industry. Note: I use Deamon tools because my DVD drive has run out of region changes (I live in the UK and watch an approximatly 50:50 mix of region 1 and 2 DVDs as anime is usually released region 1 long before region 2 and I'm too impatient to wait) and there are not any firmware updates available yet to workaround this. So to watch a DVD from a different region I have to rip it and mount the ISO.
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