cnn article on fs2004

On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 19:26:09 -0700, Chuck Forsberg WA7KGX wrote:

No mention of the copy protection.

Why should they mention copy-protection?? It's a standard feature with
nearly all games these days. Win XP and Office XP has also got it in the
form of 'Product Activation'.

FS2000 and FS2002 where also copy-protected.

You don't suppose Microsoft advertise on CNN?

Yup they probably do.

There's also some advertizing within FS2004 itself, in the form of the
'Partners Page' in the Learning Centre. Funny how all the big-jets in FS
are all Boeing, product-placement or what?

On Sat, 30 Aug 2003 04:12:22 +0000, Nathan wrote:

http://www.cnn.com/2003/TECH/fun.gam...tor/index.html

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On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 12:08:59 GMT, paul s
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Why should they mention copy-protection?? It's a standard feature with
nearly all games these days. Win XP and Office XP has also got it in the
form of 'Product Activation'.

But they don't require the user to put a disk in the CD to use the
software.


FS2000 and FS2002 where also copy-protected.

FS2002 does not require a disk to play.

ArtP wrote:
On Sun, 31 Aug 2003 12:08:59 GMT, paul s
wrote:


Why should they mention copy-protection?? It's a standard feature
with nearly all games these days. Win XP and Office XP has also got
it in the form of 'Product Activation'.

But they don't require the user to put a disk in the CD to use the
software.

There are a couple of hacks for that, as detailed recently in this forum
recently.

FS2000 and FS2002 where also copy-protected.

FS2002 does not require a disk to play.

Yet FS2000 and FS2004 require the key-disk to play

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On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 16:17:30 GMT, "paul s"
wrote:


FS2002 does not require a disk to play.

Yet FS2000 and FS2004 require the key-disk to play

Which is why I have FS2002 with no plans to go to FS2004.

If that is your _only_ reason, then that's is silly. Get a no cd
patch or shudder live with a CD in the tray or laying nearby. I
could understand a catalogue of reasons, but a key CD alone? Bah.

On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 18:24:39 GMT, ArtP
wrote:

On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 16:17:30 GMT, "paul s"
wrote:


FS2002 does not require a disk to play.

Yet FS2000 and FS2004 require the key-disk to play

Which is why I have FS2002 with no plans to go to FS2004.

On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 16:02:39 -0400, wrote:

Based on others posts the benefit of FS2004 over FS2002 is marginal
(but not zero), which I offset against sending a message to MS
(hopefully I am one of many) that I don't want to keep a CD in my
drive just so I can start the game. Yes there are patches (I used one
for FS2000), but they must be found and installed and after a patch
the new patch version (if applicable) must be found and installed.
While I used to be a computer programmer, I now see myself as a pilot
and don't wish to spend my time trying to get around a short coming in
the software that should not have been there in the first place.



If that is your _only_ reason, then that's is silly. Get a no cd
patch or shudder live with a CD in the tray or laying nearby. I
could understand a catalogue of reasons, but a key CD alone? Bah.

On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 18:24:39 GMT, ArtP
wrote:

On Mon, 01 Sep 2003 16:17:30 GMT, "paul s"
wrote:


FS2002 does not require a disk to play.

Yet FS2000 and FS2004 require the key-disk to play

Which is why I have FS2002 with no plans to go to FS2004.