If anyone was thinking of picking this one up, stay far away! You have to put in this ridiculous long registration code. Problem is, the code is written so small, that you can’t tell the difference between A and R. I have been all over their tech support site to no avail. So now I have this game that I can’t do a single damn thing with.
Certainly the best $40 I ever spent! :evil:
They write it small to protect them from crackers! :)
Sorry, that’s not helpful. What about getting a crack at gamecopyworld?
Couldn’t you buy a magnifying glass?
Couldn’t you buy a magnifying glass?[/quote]
All the good computer tool kits come with one. :)
Just patch and crack, jeez.
It’s not a matter of needing the CD. You have to put the code in before playing the first time. I have a magnafying glass and still cannot tell any difference. I mean this is the single worst copy protection I have ever seen! Complete rubbish! :x
Are you sure you’re using the little red plastic overlay you have to put over it to read the code?
I’m joking, I’m joking… :)
There are no cd patches and there are cracks. You want a crack. Unless you also want to play the cracked game without the CD, then you want the no cd patch, too.
I think the point is that he shouldn’t need a crack to play his legitimate copy of the game ;b
http://spellforce.jowood.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=4043
Infos on how to solve this problem, alone or with help from tech support, can be found virtually everywhere on the official site and in the forum. JoWooD made it so obvious that it´s really hard to overlook.
You don´t have to register if you get the keycode sticker from the official site. Fixed in the top right corner.
Hey fucker, I live in NC now. Be careful who you’re calling “cracker”.
Besides, for ethnicity I prefer the term “Saltino”.
So now that we hopefully have that out of the way, how’s the game?
Generally, it’s excellent. Huge environments, loads of quests (I’d estimate 80-100 hours of play), compelling missions (I couldn’t stop playing it :) ), not a few plot surprises, great draw distance and beautiful graphics (which really come to the fore in the 3D mode).
On the other hand, it struck me as more of an RTS with RPG and action elements than an RTS/RPG. The automatic restore on death to the nearest Bindstone (markers that allow you to teleport around the game world) gets old. If you want to go back to your last save instead, you have to wait through two loads. (Then again, this resurrection system seems to be necessary to beat some of the scenarios.) No interiors; everything takes place on the surface. Some of the voice acting is poor (at least in the UK version), though it improves as the game goes on, and it crashed right at the end (a situation I was ultimately able to work around).
Peter
http://spellforce.jowood.com/forum/showthread.php?threadid=4043
Infos on how to solve this problem, alone or with help from tech support, can be found virtually everywhere on the official site and in the forum. JoWooD made it so obvious that it´s really hard to overlook.
You don´t have to register if you get the keycode sticker from the official site. Fixed in the top right corner.[/quote]
I’ve been all over the site and seen all the “help”. This is one of those things you would have to see for yourself. Magnifying glass does nothing to make it look like their blown up letters.
I have a UK version, so I know that it´s still problematic, even with this other font at hand. I was lucky, it took me only one try.
I read the other procedure is mailing support or sending the user CP-support a PM with the first 15 letters as you see them. They type it into the DB and you get the key back.
Don´t know if this really works, though.
Keep trying, the game is great.