On the other hand, I've bought pretty much every Stardock release over the past five years or so, with the exception of Demigod. I know I'll get a good, engaging game that doesn't need a thumbprint and a blood sample in order to use a product that I own. As long as Stardock keeps making games I like without the intrusiveness that I despise, they'll keep getting money from me.
Same. What these other companies do, it's as criminal as the theft they hope to prevent.
Stardock makes a brilliant game. When I play their titles, I feel like I'm playing something made by gamers who like games, not programmers who like money. For that alone they'd get my business but I also mean to support them for their ethics as well.
Those ethics count with people like me, who are tired of companies effectively punishing the people who put food on their table, over the few who try to take it away. (Like I'm supposed to stop them?) And Stardock makes it easy to support their ethics, by backing it up with brilliant work. Basically they prove that they care, they don't have to puff up about it.
And I've annoyed several friends with this rant, I'm glad you said as much too, Cyrus.
