What's your take on "online pass"?

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Baalzamon said:

Zkuq said:

vlad321 said:

Zkuq said:

vlad321 said:
It's a CD key. If anything this just shows that even in DRM the consoles take around a decade or more to catch up.

Not really that simple. On PC, I doubt it's very common that CD keys are in use unless the game has online accounts that use the CD key, which is not very common for older games.

I can install and play single-player Starcraft with any CD-Key, but I can't get online unless it's unique. That was 13 years ago.

AFAIK there's tons of games that only check that they key is not in use at the same moment, not if it's never been used.

Yea, that is what Starcraft does.  I think what he is saying though, is that do you really trust somebody else to not have copied down the CD key, and just continue playing the game after selling it?

Personally, I'm actually honest, apparently unlike some people, so people who have bought games like that from me in the past have had 0 issues whatsoever.  I don't know that I would trust buying games like that from somebody else, however.

That's how I used to play CS at the begining... "go see John he'll get you what you need", here's a CD and a CD key.... I left my comp on all the time with CS minimized because once you passed the verification, you didn't need to check the CD key again untill you restarted CS....

Eventually I bought the game cause I really liked it but hey ... people do share CD keys that are not their own ^^.

(tested UT2004 in the same way... I own it too now :p)