News Spore de-authorisation tool released

[CardJoe]

http://www.bit-tech.net/news/2008/12...ool-released/1

EA has released an official de-authorisation tool for Spore, while a Ubisoft patch corrects widescreen issues in Far Cry 2.

[WildThing]

So all this time people playing Far Cry 2 with widescreen monitors have had this bug??!! Can't believe they have only just released a fix!

[Bauul]

And was there any point in including the DRM in Spore in the first place?

*checks piracy figures*

No.

Originally Posted by WildThing

So all this time people playing Far Cry 2 with widescreen monitors have had this bug??!! Can't believe they have only just released a fix!

It's the same thing that happened in Bioshock, the widescreen view is a vertically reduced version of the 4:3 view. It's not a bug per say, just a developer's choice, but unfortunatly one that a lot of people don't agree with. I happen to agree. You have normal monitors and widescreens, not tall screens and normal ones. Widescreens should have wide viewing angles.

[faugusztin]

But bad day for European Steam customers (except UK).

[karx11erx]

And you still can't user proper wide screen in FC2 multiplayer! Now why is that? In order not to put 4:3 screen users at a disadvantage? So they happily put the widescreen owners at a disadvantage. In my book the people responsible for FC2 are the most incapable, dumbest, moronic failures I have ever seen.

"Designer's choice"? I have a bigger screen and get to see less? Designer my ass!

If you follow this logic you'd need to add code to hamper mouse control from hires mouses, etc. etc. etc.

[scarrmrcc]

Originally Posted by karx11erx

I have a bigger screen and get to see less?

what makes you say you have a bigger screen?

widescreen is NOT a regular screen with screen added to the sides
it is a different format (and square inches to diagonal, it is actually smaller)

[Drexial]

Originally Posted by scarrmrcc

what makes you say you have a bigger screen?

widescreen is NOT a regular screen with screen added to the sides
it is a different format (and square inches to diagonal, it is actually smaller)

My 21" has a resolution of 1680x1050 a standard 17or19" has 1280x1024. Games don't care about size they care about resolution. which means on my monitor i can see more when scaled like a normal game. vs FC2/Bioshock, where I wouldn't be able to see the top and bottom fragments of the screen.