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Yarrr! There be too many games about them bilge rat ninjas around these parts!

Today's User Friendly Link of the Day be http://www.ponged.com/actiongames/riseofpirates-4670]Rise of Pirates - make yer way there smartly, lads!
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012

Sorry, no time for pirate gaming, must play more Torchlight
"No can brain today. Want cheezeburger."
From NGE: Nobody Dies, by Gregg Landsman
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/5579457/1/NGE_Nobody_Dies

Holy crap Torchlight!

It's Diablo 2.5!

exactly, I'm vigorously resisting buying it.
-Terry
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"so listen up boy, or pornography starring your mother will be the second worst thing to happen to you today"
TF2: Spy

I'd really like to play the game, and I do want to pay them for it, but I do *not* want and will not accept any of the forms of DRM on the yet-available
versions.

I've started up a thread on the Runic forums asking about (and/or "for") a way to get a legitimate copy of the game which does compensate the
creators (so the rumored no-DRM "physical disc" copy probably won't qualify, since their per-copy profit margin on that is reportedly going to be
almost zero) but does *not* involve acceding to DRM. As of yesterday noonish, there wasn't any satisfactory answer, nor any response from the Runic people
themselves...

One response from a player of the game, however, has inspired the design of something which might be called a DRM scheme, might actually be effective in making
it possible to go after people who redistribute their copy, and be acceptable by my standards - which would be a first. Draft 1 is done but imperfect (it
doesn't allow for "try before you buy" demos which aren't done as a completely separate installer)...