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Might and Magic seriesThese games are tampered with by advertisers(11 posts)(11 posts)
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Posted September 12, 2009
These games are awesome.
However, you should not purchase the version offered by Gog.com because ...
it has been altered by a company called "Massive Incorporated" (according to the Terms of Use) so that advertisements appear in the game during game play. The Terms of Use also claim that Massive Incorporated will connect to the internet to fetch "objects" to load into your game. By this, I assume they can feed the advertiser of the day. However, this kind of back door access to a computer is inherently dangerous and should throw up flags of caution to any computer user who is serious about thwarting computer infections.
I can not say how these advertisements appear in the game, how frequently they appear, or how intrusive they are because I refuse to install the game (the first game that prompts for installation is MM6).
Please also consider:
1) You paid $$$ for this game, and yet you're being submitted to advertising.
2) You are not being forwarned about the games alterations until after the purchase
Sincerely,
Personally disappointed
Posted January 28, 2014
Someone mentioned this post in another thread so i think it is better to reply to it now, even though it gives it attention it does not deserve.

User:Nice_Boat asked about the accusations in this post and my reply to him was this:

98% sure there is nothing in it. Probably just a lame prank, a confused user or someone trying to badmouth GOG for some reason. I downloaded the version I have been using in march 2011. I have never had any problem with it. I use a software firewall so I would have known if the game tried to connect to the internet. (Unless it used some fancy trojan tricks.) Also, there have never been any advertisements in my games. Theoretically this issue could have been there in a earlier version of the installation files, but in-game advertisements would have been so controversial among GOG's customers that I'm sure I would have heard about it before. Putting in game advertisements inside a game is so unlike GOG so I would be extremely surprised if they ever did anything like that.
Posted January 28, 2014
I also checked the EULA and there is no mention of Massive Incorporated. So whatever basis there might have been to believe that there was in-game advertising, it's not there now.
Posted January 28, 2014
And it would be a form of DRM, meaning you have to be connected. Which I highly doubt would happen.
Posted January 30, 2014
I have this game installed on a separate hard drive, with windows XP installed. I have disabled the driver for the ethernet port, so unless it's sneaking into hardware manager and making changes that I can't see, nothing like this is going on.

Never once saw an advertisement anywhere in any of the games.

OP admits he never played any of the games.
Posted January 30, 2014
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Shloulet: Never once saw an advertisement anywhere in any of the games.
Yeah I'm not sure where the OP got this idea about the ads. I've only played MM1 and MM2 from the pack but there are definitely no advertisements in them anywhere. And I had my internet connection on and everything, never saw any trojan activity. I believe the claims are unfounded.
Posted January 30, 2014
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Shloulet: Never once saw an advertisement anywhere in any of the games.
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Waltorious: Yeah I'm not sure where the OP got this idea about the ads. I've only played MM1 and MM2 from the pack but there are definitely no advertisements in them anywhere. And I had my internet connection on and everything, never saw any trojan activity. I believe the claims are unfounded.
This thread is getting on for five years old! Why was it necro-ed?
Posted January 30, 2014
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Sslaxx: This thread is getting on for five years old! Why was it necro-ed?
As per Sargon's post, apparently someone was asking about this in another thread, so Sargon decided to post here too to clarify things. In case someone else stumbles upon it, I guess.
Posted February 04, 2014
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Waltorious: Yeah I'm not sure where the OP got this idea about the ads. I've only played MM1 and MM2 from the pack but there are definitely no advertisements in them anywhere. And I had my internet connection on and everything, never saw any trojan activity. I believe the claims are unfounded.
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Sslaxx: This thread is getting on for five years old! Why was it necro-ed?
It happens pften these days some of my old forgotten posts gets replys after few years.
Posted February 04, 2014
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Sslaxx: This thread is getting on for five years old! Why was it necro-ed?
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Waltorious: As per Sargon's post, apparently someone was asking about this in another thread, so Sargon decided to post here too to clarify things. In case someone else stumbles upon it, I guess.
Indeed so. Better to bury it again than let it haunt new customers from the grave. And so, with a stake to the heart, this thread is officially dead. And let it ever be so.
Post edited February 04, 2014 by Sargon
Posted August 19, 2023
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Waltorious: As per Sargon's post, apparently someone was asking about this in another thread, so Sargon decided to post here too to clarify things. In case someone else stumbles upon it, I guess.
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Sargon: Indeed so. Better to bury it again than let it haunt new customers from the grave. And so, with a stake to the heart, this thread is officially dead. And let it ever be so.
I am the ghost of dead past posts. Call me Lord Postghost. I have been raised from the dead by a very bored adventurer. Bring sacrifices. (oogy boogy boogy)
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