Dark, I can definitely identify with what you are saying. Although, my older desktops are pretty much glorified testing and gaming machines I still prefer using them over a laptop when I'm home. However, when I am out of town, visiting in-laws, etc I have my laptop with me and therefore I too need more than one key as it would restrict my access to said games half the time as well. So that is one of many reasons I am firmly against the concept of hardware specific keys. Its too restrictive for the honest paying user to use it on more than one computer he or she might own.
Then again, some companies such as Microsoft only want you to run their software on one and only one machine. That is why they are pushing one license per computer. That's fine if a person buys all the computers with Windows installed, but if that person needs to upgrade all of them he or she will end up paying several times for the same software which I feel is wrong. Even site licenses aren't that affordable on an average home user's income. Cheers! On 1/19/13, dark <d...@xgam.org> wrote: > Hi Tom. > > Well at the moment the two machine thing is even more crytical for me, since > > I currently spend half the week at my own flat in Durham where I do tabletop > > rp, watch films and generally enjoy myself, and half the time at my parents' > > in Nottingham, where I am involved in a production f iolanthe, and where I > am also having singing lessons and lessons in spoken Italian. > > Thus, if a key is limited to one machine, it effectively means I can only > play a game half of the time, which is more than a little irritating, ---- > > heck, even back in about 1997, when my parents bought a very small holiday > shalay in a seaside town my brother and I bought a second Snes machine so > that we could carry cartriges up and down, and thus have them at both > places. > > Beware the Grue! > > Dark. --- Gamers mailing list __ Gamers@audyssey.org If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to gamers-unsubscr...@audyssey.org. You can make changes or update your subscription via the web, at http://mail.audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. All messages are archived and can be searched and read at http://www.mail-archive.com/gamers@audyssey.org. If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of the list, please send E-mail to gamers-ow...@audyssey.org.
