Sims 2 Blocked by CD Copying Software

bairy writes "EA says The Sims 2 will refuse to run if you have Nero, CloneCD or Roxio's EasyCD installed on the same PC. Although they link to a patch to bypass this, a lot of people are upset by this."

Roxio's EasyCD?

[sgant]

Um...that came with my wife's Gateway machine. It's not like we copied some "l33t" CD copy program hack. It fricken CAME with the machine!

What up? Then they list a patch that will bypass it anyway? What up? Why did they even include it in the first place?

Again, what up?

Re:What really gets me is this...

[hambonewilkins]

murronrose basically responds like that. However, murronrose backs down and says (essentially) "I like Maxis, please don't kick me off the board" and offers to buy the game again.

Looks like the threat worked. To the rest of us, it looks like AWFUL customer service!

Re:so what

[jasonmicron]

Daemon Tools and Alcohol 120% both work fine. I have them both installed. I also have Nero installed and it works. I don't understand this "report".

That's weird

[thelenm]

That's weird... I went out and bought a DVD writer so that I could play the Sims 2 DVD edition (oh yeah, and my wife wanted it for making DVDs too). The DVD drive came with a bunch of Nero programs for creating DVDs, which I installed. Then I installed Sims 2 with no problems. I wonder why I didn't see this issue?

Not the only one

[hawkbug]

Have you tried to play Far Cry yet? The game came free with a brand new video card I bought, the eVGA Nvidia Geforce 6800, and after I installed it and then patched it to version 1.1, it refused to load. It said something about detecting drive imaging software on my machine, and it said it would not load until said software was removed. I can't tell you how much that ticked me off. So, rather than uninstall the cd copying software because I NEED IT FOR LEGIMATE PURPOSES, I simply found a crack for the program I legally own, and was forced to use it. It's just wrong. There needs to be a class action law suit, I'd even help spring for the lawyer.

Useless waste of time and money

[Bonewalker]

I just want to know who the genius is that thought this was a good idea?

"Let's make the game more difficult to play with a pirated version which will prevent about 0% of piraters from playing the game illegaly, and prevent about 75% of legitimate users from easily playing the game after they have paid us their hard-earned money. Sound like a plan? Good, get on it. I expect to see large ROI numbers by next week."

The moral is...

[RotJ]

The moral of this story (and any other stories detailing CD protection idiocy) is to always download the NoCD crack for any game you own. This bypasses any stupid annoyances caused by misguided copy-protection software, as well as saving you the trouble of having to insert your discs whenever you plan on playing a game.

Re:CloneCD Current Version is Directly Causing Iss

[GreenKiwi]

How long before CloneCD has the ability to change where its reg keys are located. That might fix this problem. well, at least be a hack around it.