Oh absolutely. Any method of backing up is a good one. It just doesn't help when your computer code keeps changing. As long as certain developers keep using said system no matter how good the product is, I just won't buy from them because of the hastle said registration system causes.
-----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of dark Sent: 27 November 2009 03:44 To: Gamers Discussion list Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Q9 and cracks Fair enough, it's justa method which has worked very well for me in the past. Beware the grue! Dark. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Darren Harris" <[email protected]> To: "'Gamers Discussion list'" <[email protected]> Sent: Friday, November 27, 2009 3:33 AM Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Q9 and cracks > Oh I've got my emails auto archiving every 24 hours so it's not > backups that's the issue. All keys and codes are stored in their own > folder which is stored on an office data file on another drive. So > it's definitely not that > which is the issue. > > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of dark > Sent: 27 November 2009 02:31 > To: Gamers Discussion list > Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Q9 and cracks > > > personally, whenever I get a game, I copy the E-mail directly to a > text file, save it in my folder ---- imaginatively called game keys, > and that folder, ---- along with just about everything else on my > computer's harddrive which I want to hang on to get's stuck onto my > handy backup external harddrive. > > This is a usb drive, which only gets plugged into a computer for > purpose > of > backing stuff up, and usually just sits in the bottom of my draw. > > I Also copy across all the game setup files for good measure, as well > as music, audio, any game information like extra rail racer tracks > Interactive fiction games or lw missions which could be useful, ---- > not to mention my thesis and related materials (which I'd be in real! > trouble if I lost). > > I even copy across my address book and favourites folders too, sinse > finding > > all those sites again and organizing them into the folder structure I > like would be a pest. > > A lot of these (including the game keys folder), then get coppied onto > my laptop too for safe keeping, ---- in fact the only reason not > everything does is because my laptop only has a 36 gig drive, ---- and > my collection of > > randomly important stuff has now reached about 40 gigs, ---- which > includes > about 16 gigs of music and 10 gigs of audio. > > This was why even when my desktop's drive exploded in 2008, it wasn't > such > a > > major deal to replace things. > > Personally, I'd recommend this backup method to anyone. No having to > keep cds or anything else messy, no complications with scanning, just > one piece of equipment, which needs plugging in occasionally. > > In fact the only real problem with backing stuff up is waiting for > folders to copy across! > > Beware the grue! > > Dark. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Scott Chesworth" <[email protected]> > To: "Gamers Discussion list" <[email protected]> > Sent: Friday, November 27, 2009 12:11 AM > Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Q9 and cracks > > >> Wow, that's 3 games down the pan... quite an expensive pan! I'm >> assuming you're smart enough to be doing so already now but >> definitely try and keep backups of your emails with keys in and >> whatnot. Having been denied an extra key for a GMA purchase for a >> pretty daft reason myself I feel your pain, but should think if you'd >> had a copy of the email where David himself sent you the key he'd >> have been alright over it. >> >> On 11/26/09, Darren Harris <[email protected]> wrote: >>> Hi >>> >>> Well I do have a legal copy but David Greenwood can't find me in his >>> records so I just haven't ever bothered buying either game again. >>> They're good and >>> it's sad that I lost them but I just can't be bothered to shell out more >>> money for something that I know I did purchase. That's the real danger >>> with >>> this method of security it really is unfare on the end user quite >>> honestly. >>> I have keys for 2 games that I can no longer play through no fault of my >>> own. Actually I have sod as well but same problem. >>> >>> -----Original Message----- >>> From: [email protected] >>> [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Willem >>> Sent: 26 November 2009 19:19 >>> To: Gamers Discussion list >>> Subject: Re: [Audyssey] Q9 and cracks >>> >>> >>> I agree. I own many games that use this method of registration, but >>> I didn't email the developers for keys. Among them are all the >>> titles made with the GMA engine, railRacer and Judgment day. Darren >>> Harris >>> wrote: >>>> Right. Yes if the devs make it to difficult for people to use their >>>> product then they just won't bother in the end. I've avoided >>>> certain titles for that reason. As good as lw and tank commander >>>> are, it's a pain to put either game on more than 1 system or if >>>> there's an issue with 1 of my pc's and it needs formatting and >>>> reinstalling then yeah it does become a problem and you just don't >>>> bother. So now when any of these blind friendly games come out I >>>> tend to look at their methods of registering the game. If I think >>>> it's going to be too much of a hastle then I simply don't bother >>>> because I don't see why I should have to keep asking and asking for >>>> such and such keys all the time, quite frankly I have better things >>>> to do than that. >>>> >>> >>> >>> --- >>> Gamers mailing list __ [email protected] >>> If you want to leave the list, send E-mail to >>> [email protected]. You can make changes or update your >>> subscription via the web, at >>> http://audyssey.org/mailman/listinfo/gamers_audyssey.org. >>> All messages are archived and can be searched and read at >>> http://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]. >>> If you have any questions or concerns regarding the management of >>> the list, please send E-mail to [email protected]. No virus >>> found in this incoming message. 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