I have almost no interest in this game...

Good of an excuse as any I suppose. Your lack of enthusiasm also shows by coming to the forums, registering and telling us about it. Very little interest indeed

Hehe....we'll make a convert of you yet    Once you bomb your first planet you can never go back   

LoL, For years I've maintained that I hate RTS's. But recently a friend just got me interested in SupCom. Been enjoying the heck out of that title and kind of changed my tune. It's helped that I've started looking at it as a giant chess match. Well I read today about these guy's fearless-no-DRM stance, and well I just gotta support anyone who does that. Of course my friend has this on preorder so I'll have ppl to play with for certain.

So yeah, I'm jazzed about Monday. :^)

./Remembers the Starforce incident... Yeah, they were (dead) wrong!

Its pretty stupid to buy a game you arent even interested in, just because it has no protection
But it is a very good game, and you wont be dissapointed.

Actually, I think what the OP is saying is that he's putting his money where his mouth is -- he doesn't approve of the DRM practices, so he's rewarding the one company that doesn't practice shi-- er, really nasty -- DRM in the hopes that other companies catch on sooner rather than later.

I did the same a while back in beta 1, and i've had loads of fun since, so welcome!

I myself bought 2 copies of the game in gratitude of Ironclad DRM stance and the incredible support I know they will give the game. Just like GalCiv

Indeed. How many people do you know who (for instance) hate Sony but play their games? I won't. It's a known fact that Sony hates gamers. :^)

Anyway, absolutely putting my money where my mouth is and making sure the devs (and any others reading this board) know WHY they got my purchase.

I have bought many titles I'm not interested in and a few SD titles I never used as well for that exact reason. I do not consider it a stupid thing to do either. Stupid is liking the idea or concept and not supporting it. Voting with your wallet is how one gets their voice heard in our capitalistic society pure and simple.

Many good ideas have vanished due to a lack of short to mid term finical support and people complained after they go away. They say things like "wow I liked it but I was not in the market" or "it was a nice thing but I was to busy to get active at that time" -etc...

You do realize this game does actually have DRM in it, right? The original DVD install does not, but the launch update which includes the modding tools and pretty much everything besides the initial DVD burn requires you to authorize it online. Technically, that is DRM. And if you want to argue that it isn't then iTunes doesn't have DRM either.

Essentially, it's the same as iTunes' system. You can't listen to songs until you 'authorize' the computer, and you can't restore patched games with SDC (Not sure how Impulse will handle it) without reactivating*. I don't see what the fanfare is for.

(Footnote edited)
* Yes, if you want to copy your entire windows folder with your backup, a sig.bin file, and you never plan on changing computers in your life then you get a one-time-ever activation.

As long as i have no hassle to reactivate it as a legitimate license* buyer, i have no problems with it.

*You buy a license to use it.



A not to underestimate problem is that, from the press some Games get hyped to the moon and other get slapped for slightest fails, or even get ignored.
The Money my friend, the Money, marketing is today almost more important than the Product itself(from the perspective of a big Publisher.)

I think even more important than not having DRM, which I think more companies are going to be doing simply because it pisses their customers off and doesn't do anything to slow piracy, is that it's not one of the major publishers, like EA, who don't give a damn about their customers once they have their money. I think small publishers, and self-publishing, are the best way to go. I've seen too many games ruined by crappy publishers who shove a game out of the door to meet some quarterly expectations. Just look at how EA spited Will Wright and Spore, simply because they didn't want their game rushed out buggy and unfinished. With all that Will Wright has done for EA, he's made them billions, and they still crap on him. EA is everything that is wrong with gaming today.

It's not directly the Company itself but the Shareholders that force them to handle like that.

Thanks for your support PPLSPMorse   

Stardock's DRM is virtually non-existant... at least it saves us the stupid CD shuffling!

Don't feed skrylar either, we've been over it on IRC yesterday and he just doesn't understand the difference between DRM and a one time online activation.