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Galactic Civilizations II Breaks DRM Mold
Machitis writes "A recent news item at GalCiv2.com says, 'Our license allows you to install the game onto as many machines that you own that you want as long as only one copy is being used at once. How many sales are lost because people want to have a game on their laptop and desktop and don't want to drag CDs around so choose not to buy the game? [...] we were quite disturbed to discover that the company that makes Starforce provided a working URL to a list of pirated GalCiv II torrents. I'm not sure whether what they did was illegal or not, but it's troubling nevertheless and was totally unnecessary.'"
I've never played any Galciv games. I've played the fuck out of Civ1, Civ3, Alpha Centauri, and a tiny little smattering of Civ2. With Alpha Centauri, I spent so much time building units, I was cussing the un-organized interface all the time. Kept playing; kept cussing. You'd figure that I would have gotten pissed enough to microwave the CD, like I did with Mechwarrior 4, but nope. Alpha Centari was the bom.
Haven't really bought any games lately. Last round was Sid Meier's Pirates (remake), Doom 3 RoE (which I *still* haven't played through), Silent Hunter 3 (which has fortunately been cracked, Praise Allah!!!), and Hordes of the Underdark.
I've gotta do a bit of shopping on Amazon this weekend, so I do believe I will be ordering Galciv. If it's anything like Elite or Civilization, I'm totally there, dude.
I heard Master of Orion was also good. I bought that one in a massive pack of games in ~1996. Still haven't played it, although I did load it one time. I've got it imaged with CloneCD, rar'd down and saved to a DVD. I hear it's good, but I could never figure out to get started on it. I think it was one of those fancy "manual-on-CD" jobs, and I just never printed out the manual.
Galciv it is. Gracias, Slashdot!