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Offline Troublemaker.NA

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Thank you for a game easy to install and play
« on: November 04, 2010, 06:31:43 am »
I found this game almost by accident. While looking around, I just read this:

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We've been asked if our games contain any signficiant DRM, and the answer is, emphatically, no. Each game has a simple license key (which turns the trial version into the full version), but that's it. No need to contact our servers during install, no hidden drivers, no encryption, or install limits.

We want to make it easy on our customers, and we've never really felt like DRM works, anyway. If you like our games, please buy them so that we can make more, but we're not about to start treating our real customers like thieves just to thwart the inevitable pirates.

Does it mean that I finally have a game I just install, and that's it?
Hell guys, I bought the game even before deciding if I really want it. Thank you so much.

I personally try to avoid games where I have to register, activate, have an internet connection, or things like that. I regret buying silent hunter 5 for my dad, and I'm now more careful when I look at games. This is really relieving.
I wanted to post this even before starting to install. Now let's hope I won't get a bad surprise  :)

Thanks again guys. Much appreciated

Offline Mánagarmr

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Re: Thank you for a game easy to install and play
« Reply #1 on: November 04, 2010, 06:46:30 am »
You and me both, buddy. I don't even play Tidalis (Arcen Games other puzzle game) and I bought it anyway, simply because of their awesome look out for us customers. I want to support them in any way I can.

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Offline Ozymandiaz

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Re: Thank you for a game easy to install and play
« Reply #2 on: November 04, 2010, 08:39:20 am »
I found this game almost by accident. While looking around, I just read this:

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We've been asked if our games contain any signficiant DRM, and the answer is, emphatically, no. Each game has a simple license key (which turns the trial version into the full version), but that's it. No need to contact our servers during install, no hidden drivers, no encryption, or install limits.

We want to make it easy on our customers, and we've never really felt like DRM works, anyway. If you like our games, please buy them so that we can make more, but we're not about to start treating our real customers like thieves just to thwart the inevitable pirates.

Does it mean that I finally have a game I just install, and that's it?
Hell guys, I bought the game even before deciding if I really want it. Thank you so much.

I personally try to avoid games where I have to register, activate, have an internet connection, or things like that. I regret buying silent hunter 5 for my dad, and I'm now more careful when I look at games. This is really relieving.
I wanted to post this even before starting to install. Now let's hope I won't get a bad surprise  :)

Thanks again guys. Much appreciated

Indeed, Arcen has a lot of cool things going on for it ;)

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Offline keith.lamothe

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Re: Thank you for a game easy to install and play
« Reply #3 on: November 04, 2010, 09:36:52 am »
I found this game almost by accident. While looking around, I just read this:

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We've been asked if our games contain any signficiant DRM, and the answer is, emphatically, no. Each game has a simple license key (which turns the trial version into the full version), but that's it. No need to contact our servers during install, no hidden drivers, no encryption, or install limits.

We want to make it easy on our customers, and we've never really felt like DRM works, anyway. If you like our games, please buy them so that we can make more, but we're not about to start treating our real customers like thieves just to thwart the inevitable pirates.

Does it mean that I finally have a game I just install, and that's it?
Hell guys, I bought the game even before deciding if I really want it. Thank you so much.

I personally try to avoid games where I have to register, activate, have an internet connection, or things like that. I regret buying silent hunter 5 for my dad, and I'm now more careful when I look at games. This is really relieving.
I wanted to post this even before starting to install. Now let's hope I won't get a bad surprise  :)

Thanks again guys. Much appreciated
There is an enter-your-serial-key thing, but it doesn't connect to the internet, check for number of activations, or anything like that.

And yea, with the Unity versions _all_ the prerequisites (.net, slimdx) have been removed, so you can (iirc) actually play the game off of a thumb-drive if you really wanted to.  I'd suggest at least copying the files to a hard disk, but up to you ;)

Edit: to clarify, you'd have to download the installer, run it, and then copy the game files to a thumb drive, and you could play it from there.
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