Gothic 3 to be protected with SecuROM; community petition delivered to JoWooD

Community representatives handed over the petition against intrusive copy protection to JoWooD at the Games Convention in Leipzig. The publishers once again made clear that Gothic 3 will not use Starforce. A short time earlier it was confirmed their choice is SecuROM.

The petition against undue copy protection techniques used with Gothic 3, an idea born within the German section of WorldofGothic some months ago and hosted and administered by the diligent folks at Mondgesaenge.de, collected some 7,242 subscriptions - was finally delivered to representatives of JoWooD Productions and Deep Silver, the publishers for Gothic 3 in Europe, at the current Leipzig Games Convention this Saturday.

WorldofGothic.de offers a video made at the occasion where Kai Rosenkranz, public liaison officer with Piranha Bytes, admits of having signed the petition himself. He calls the copy protection solution found for Gothic 3 a win/win-situation for all parties involved.

The dreaded StarForce programme has been abandoned by the publishers Deep Silver and JoWooD, which was one of the primary concerns of the many Gothic fans who participated in this movement. Gothic 3 now will be shipped with the newest version of SecuRom - a copy protection programme that was already used for Gothic 2. Whether this solution will prove beneficial to the buyers of Gothic 3 remains to be seen.

Source: World of Gothic