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On Take On Helicopters DRM; Demo Plans

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A post on the Bohemia Interactive Forums asks for help with a problem causing a watery image degradation in Take On Helicopters, Bohemia's new flight simulator. As it turns out this can be the result of using a pirated edition of the game, as Bohemia explains this comes from their "unique anti-piracy countermeasures," also noting a demo for the game is in the works. Here's word:

Bohemia Interactive deploys various antipiracy countermeasures in its titles and Take On Helicopters is no exception, some users have reported morphed/watery image degradation (see http://forums.bistudio.com/showthread.php?t=126991 ). The original version of Take On Helicopters does not suffer from this degradation of visual quality. Piracy is a big problem for Bohemia Interactive, as an independent PC developer, and we're trying to focus our support as much as possible towards users of legitimate copies. Counterfeit copies of our games may degrade and, moral aspects aside, we certainly recommend only playing the original version. We have a free public demo version of Take On Helicopters in the development pipeline for those that prefer to test it before buying.

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Re: On Take On Helicopters DRM; Demo Plans

Nov 11, 2011, 15:38

Dades

And no, I am no DRM advocate, I hate DRM, but this DRM works and has no detrimental effects on legit customers. Its much better than having to insert a disc all the time, having some bloatware like Steam that drives other publishers to make similar, even worse stuff like that, or always on Internet DRM, or account forced bullshit. I'm not pro-pirate and I don't hate DRM on principle if its well implemented, I'm simply not convinced that they have somehow developed the magical DRM that always functions perfectly without ever even having the potential to affect a customer, something claimed in this thread. When people ask how that's possible based on their knowledge of its inner workings they can't seem to provide a working explanation. If he had just left it at that it can function while potentially affecting a minority of users I would have never even posted because that's how most DRM functions and its usually accepted.

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Comment [quote="Dades"Nov 11, 2011, 15:38]q[And no, I am no DRM advocate, I hate DRM, but this DRM works and has no detrimental effects on legit customers. Its much better than having to insert a disc all the time, having some bloatware like Steam that drives other publishers to make similar, even worse stuff like that, or always on Internet DRM, or account forced bullshit.]q I'm not pro-pirate and I don't hate DRM on principle if its well implemented, I'm simply not convinced that they have somehow developed the magical DRM that always functions perfectly without ever even having the potential to affect a customer, something claimed in this thread. When people ask how that's possible based on their knowledge of its inner workings they can't seem to provide a working explanation. If he had just left it at that it can function while potentially affecting a minority of users I would have never even posted because that's how most DRM functions and its usually accepted. [/quote]

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