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I really dislike gameguard. Firstly, I do not enjoy them lighting up my computer like a christmas tree with invasive kernel hooks able to moniter key-strokes and such. Secondly, even though I do not have that big of a problem with it, it does introduce extra processing. It introduces some measure of lag, which can be unbearable in high-density area's.
Furthermore, many people with obsolete PC's would be hit the hardest. Many people who suggest using Gameguard are completely ignorant fools who never consider someone running this game on a Pentium III for instance. Some operating systems cant even run gameguard effectively.
Sure you will get rid of botters for a period of time, but thats only until they figure out how to bypass gameguard. Meanwhile, you punish a good deal of your population, and restrict a population from playing simply because their PC's dont have the horsepower needed to deal with the poorly constructed kernel hooks gameguard embeds.
Although I would like to see botters be gone, I wouldn't want to see people on my friends lists dissapear just because they dont have the power to run the game anymore...
Had gameguard been developed by americans or europeans who actually know something about the windows-internals (kernel), then I'd say gameguard would be nice. But due to the fact it was developed by overconfident asians who have no clue how badly they are messing up the windows internals - well I'd rather not have it in this game.
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