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Trackmania Nations - Contains Starforce protection and adware
Grasshopper:
I thought I'd resurrect this old thread as I've just got hold of a copy of Trackmania Nations (came free with a magazine) and I'm wondering whether to risk installing it.
I've just looked through the very long EULA and there is no mention of Starforce although Ad-Ware is mentioned. Does anyone here know whether this has always been the case, or whether the publishers have now bowed to pressure, removed the Starforce protection, and changed the EULA accordingly?
Howard_Casto:
It's always had spyware and probably always will. That's why it's "free". A simple case of getting what you pay for. Trackmania nations is a great game, and the spyware can be removed with a tool, but it must be installed for the game to work. As much as a love the game I won't be running it simply as a matter of principal.
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On a side note, apparently the mameworld genuises don't frequent our forums, or the internet for that matter (as the spyware thing in trackmania was a farily big story everywhere). They recently posted it on the mameworld news, which I find doubly funny, considering not only did they not know about the spyware, but they posted a glowing review of the now, 4 month old game they "just discovered".
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