New Supreme Commander Patch
According to this post on the Gas Powered Games forums, a new update for Supreme Commander is now available. It fixes blue screen issues, and removes the SecuROM disc check feature among other things. Thanks Blues News. Update: you can find the patch mirrored on FileShack.
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marmite
reply"removes the SecuROM disc check feature"
Always a good thing.-
I never understand why they even have it.
It gets cracked 10 minutes after the game appears in stores, so is useless at deterring large scale piracy, and you need the cdkey to play on-line anyway.
Might as well ship without it and save a bit of money, from the licensing of securom, the work involved removing it in a future patch, and the tech support/returns costs associated with it not working well with 100% of customers dvd drives.
Still, its nice to see it removed a so soon after release.-
I think the way it tends to work is - the developer has to agree to the publisher's demands. The developer believes/knows that SecurROM poses a problem to a number of people but both because they don't have current numbers in front of them (yeah, that game released two years ago gave people fits but maybe it's different now?) and because they just want to ship the game, they give in to the publisher's demands.
When the game ships and the complaints pour in and the publisher is looking at losing sales for people demanding their money back or warning their friends not to buy it because it doesn't work, they acquiesce and let the developer take it out.-
You could be right. I remember when I followed Temple of Elemental Evil's development closely the game didn't ship with Securom but then the devs came on the forum and said Atari's stockholders were pressuring the company into implementing it for all games, ToEE in particular. They added it in on their first (and only?) patch.
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