Ubisoft officially dumps Starforce

Citing "complaints," the publisher ends its relationship with the copyright-protection provider.

Following several days of rumors, Ubisoft has officially confirmed that it will no longer use the controversial digital-rights software from Starforce. "Ubisoft has decided to use an alternative copy-protection system to Starforce for upcoming releases," said a rep for the company. The announcement means that Starforce software will not be included in Heroes of Might and Magic V, the publisher's much-anticipated forthcoming PC role-playing game.

Ubisoft's decision caps weeks of controversy surrounding Starforce. In mid-March, an employee of the Russian-German-Chinese-Cypriot company was accused of posting a link to a site where users could illegally download Stardock's space sim Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords. Shortly, thereafter, Aspyr Media decided to sever its relationship with Starforce and remove its software from its forthcoming game, Spellforce 2: Shadow Wars.

Ubisoft's motivation for ending its agreement with Starforce was more personal. At the end of March, the company was slapped with a $5 million lawsuit by gamers who claimed that Starforce's DRM system compromised the security of their PCs. "We are currently investigating complaints about alleged problems with Starforce's software," said the Ubisoft rep.

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Finally an OFFICIAL update from Pugsy!

14 APRIL 2006 It's been a long time coming, once again I left it so long that it was a massive updating/compiling task. Next time I definitely won't leave it so long as this time I stretched the work out over a longer period and Slade's Cheat Database Checker helped enormously, so it wasn't quite as bad as last time. Anyway thanks to the forum regulars and especially to ShimaPong who has been cheat finding like mad since the last release and his sheer cheat output has shamed me into finally getting my finger out. Anyway it's about a week short of two years since the last cheat file release, and many thanks to the forum regulars. The cheat.dat is available in 2 archive formats...the standard zip and the ultra compact 7z format, if you don't know what 7z is I suggest you grab the zip archive. Whichever archive you grab you will still need to extract it to use it!

>> Get it HERE.