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Reply to ANOTHER VENDOR SPYS ME OUT - updates only via impluse :-( in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

@The_Regicide yes, it says it is for windows. The box says also (translated) "This product is copy protected through technical security meassurements". You would find the same on any game with DRM. @ Zoomba I just hope you are not a typical stardock official. @Impulse Given that Impulse does no

Reply to ANOTHER VENDOR SPYS ME OUT - updates only via impluse :-( in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

@CraigHB you hate it when programs put themself in the startup? Well, now think what .Net does to shorten the application startup time. And of course there is no easy way to turn that of, because at last in Vista that is part of the general windows startup process nad/or login process. So if Windows itself does it, how can you tell application developers they should not do that? I am not citicizing you with that question, instead it was a rethoric one. I am afraid putting things into the star

Reply to ANOTHER VENDOR SPYS ME OUT - updates only via impluse :-( in Sins of a Solar Empire Sins Forums

Mabye I should put my point of view into this discussion. It is not the usual part... I am not a Windows or MacOS user, I am a Linux and Wine user. That means I play all my games for windows using wine. Well, even the bootcamp people do use wine, even if they do not directly see it. It is in the DirectX part. Anyway, I did buy Sins, because it was advertised with having no copy protection. Note I siad "copy protection", not DRM. So I am one of these crank users who use s