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> I literally don't know why they would force me to present a (virtual) DVD if there is no other checks whatsoever. This makes no sense but to hurt customers.
by Tijdreiziger 4y ago
> I literally don't know why they would force me to present a (virtual) DVD if there is no other checks whatsoever. This makes no sense but to hurt customers.
This was very common back in the day. It’s a form of DRM: it prevents you from playing the game on two computers at once.
It used to be common to make your life easier (even if you weren’t sharing the disc) by downloading an unofficial ‘no-cd’ patch, which was a patched game executable that omitted the ‘disc present’ check.
- julian_sark 4y agoYou're absolutely right! Man, I used to download so many no-cd patches back in the days, but lumped it all in with "real" copy protection in my mind. +2 for the trip down memory lane. -1 because now I need to drink before noon to forget about the horrors of fiddling with CD-ROM based games and their silly schemes. So yeah, +1 :)