Not only does independent developer/publisher Stardock put out some great strategy games, they’re also somewhat well known for completely omitting any sort of DRM in their releases. Building upon this idea of actually, y’know, treating PC gamers with some modicum of respect, they’ve released a list entitled “The Gamer’s Bill of Rights,” a collection of standards that we can expect to see the company employ from this point on.
Best list ever or best list ever?
Some of the items — ok, more like ALL of them — might seem like painfully obvious things to do, but, as I’m sure most of you are aware, are still not practiced by many publishers and developers. And yeah, I understand that piracy is part of the reason for why they don’t do some of them, but if more and more companies started employing these standards then pirates would haveabsolutelyno credible excuses to download games beyond “I’m a cheap bastard.”
