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Old 12-03-2006, 12:00
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Scandalous news about Starforce

From Celestail Heavens, a Heroes of Might & Magic V fansite:

The Starforce made the headlines once again when an administrator of their forum posted a link to a torrent site distributing Galactic Civilizations II: Dread Lords, as a proof that software piracy was bad for sales. The post has since been edited. The publisher of the game, Stardock, reacted by posting a rather diplomatic editorial on their own forums, calling the admin's action unnecessary. The post is also an interesting description of the current state of software piracy, along with Stardock's own way to deal with the issue: "Our primary weapon to fight piracy is through rewarding customers through convenient, frequent, free updates. If you make it easy for users to buy and make full use of your product or service legitimately then we believe that you'll gain more users from that convenience than you'll lose from piracy."

Here's the image of the incriminated thread (torrent censured)
http://www.galciv2.com/temp/starfo2.jpg

So...Starforce just hit a new low...no serious developer should have relation with a such self-righteous comany like it.

Spread the news EVERYWHERE, maybe this time we can bring some good developer back to reason...
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