The truth about lying

It is essential to incorporate the framework of playability in a game rating in general and this one in particular. And that can only lead to one result: negative vote. Here in a matter of course a game is declared as 'offline' and the customers 'online' imposed that the consumer and data protection departments of the Republic should go a cry of indignation. If, mind you, for we have heard ... nothing.

Before I misunderstood: I do not begrudge all game publishers the success retract the work of its programmers capable. And should you not be stolen by piracy. The programmers who beat the nights around the ears to get an absolutely perfect product, have my deepest sympathy, because their work is trampled. She moves into the background because it only comes to the supposed fight 'good versus evil'. The 'good' - these are the developers and publishers, the 'evil' - the pirates. And most of those have to be protected - with online registrations, spyware and lifelong accounts. Other funds are not available to us. While I was still at least a button 'privacy' have in social networks, where all boundaries are crossed. This is nothing less than a large-scale attack on our freedom fundamental rights. While the federal government has to admit sheepishly looking for right-wing terrorist cell that certain actions may never be associated with an offender, because the databases must be deleted after a period X; while the majority of the population gets goosebumps when term 'data retention' and railed against it, are the software / game publisher Ubisoft & Co. already on. And justify all this with a lie that is agreed to make matters worse, even with great acclaim: 'We have to protect our property.' - Gladly, I protect my property also. But not so!

The solution is so simple that only the knowledge of these reveals how shameless are the publisher. - Use USB dongles! The most secure way to protect its software ownership, precisely as Ubisoft wants us pretend it with an online account for life: Not the product itself is protected, but the royalty proper use. The installation disc can I copy it but the software itself runs only when the corresponding dongle is plugged into the computer. So I can play anytime, anywhere, with no Internet. Bonus content and online multiplayer modes are available in addition, and I can decide whether and how much I want to use it themselves. And one day I had enough of my software, I sell it with my dongle, and you're done. The Publisher may out of necessity make even a virtue and offer special packs with a dongle in Anno-planks-Design, or Family packs with 2,3,4 dongle in the package.

And what does it cost? Pro dongle no more than 6 euros. Judged that the EIA for Anno 2070 was 54.95, the game currently on Amazon but just 39.99 costs, which is due to the many bad reviews not least - a miscalculation. I have been working for over three years daily using software that requires a dongle. I've never had a technical problem with it. The dongle is mitgefahren more than 10,000 km across the country in the car, put on personal computers and laptops and is until today no wear or fatigue. I guess its operating period to date about 4000-4500 hours. For comparison: My Anno 1404 is not even on the 600th

When the first publisher protects his game with dongles rather than online compulsion, we will see how much is worth all the truth. Because then all pirates can prove that they were not lying when they said: 'I would buy it myself honest, but not so' The publisher must only once provide the opportunity for it.

Supplement on 22.12.2011: The use of the game is not possible, either in online or offline mode, since every time the user ID and password are requested, however, the game does not start, because the "connecting to server" is.