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Hellgate: Swindled in London
Submitted by George Walker on November 5, 2007 – 10:48 pm2 Comments
Well, I went against my better judgment. I accepted the EULA. I laughed in the face of draconian copy protection schemes.
And they laughed right back at me.
I suspect that, like Joe and I discussed on the Aeropodcast, this is most likely due to having “virtual drive” software on my machine. Despite the fact that I use it for legitimate means, such as beta-testing development software, EA and Flagship have decided that I cannot play their game.
Now, there is a patch that might get around this. I’ll leave it to you guys to find it. But, unfortunately, such a patch usually only works until EA releases a patch for Hellgate: London. I imagine that will be any day now.
Remember, copy protection kills kittens.
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I’m sure it’s par for the course for the biggest publishers to make their games not run on these piracy-enabling drive virtualization systems.
Just after the HDLoader appeared on the PS2 game after game wouldn’t work with it.
I just assume that anything I look at today requires the CD to be in the drive until the publisher at some time in the distant future decides it’s not necessary anymore. Or until all the patches are done and a No-CD crack for that particular patched version of the game is available, then I can play it happily without the disc in the drive.
That’s the problem, though… I get that error message when the CD is in the drive. :-/