Ouch, that really sucks that it corrupts all save files. I know personally when I'm playing an RPG I have a whole fucking slew of saves from various points in case I screw up somewhere or turn the story in a direction I don't like.
Tranthas' list kinda looks like a standard list of game bugs/annoyances, though. Most of that stuff is workaroundable in a matter of seconds.
There are plenty of virus scanners that give shitloads of false positives, so I'd put money on the idea that whatever virus scanner those people were using that detected the primary exe as an infection would do that same thing for all matter of other games and their files.
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Funny you mention Titan Quest. I read an interview with one of the head guys of the company that made it and he said they made the game unstable on purpose when pirated. In the end the outcry from people bitching how unstable it was (ie, the ones who pirated it) led to the game not selling and the shutdown of the company. I will try to find that article, interesting read.
Still not a single crash here.
Yea, I remember the article being posted up here on the Lanys forums after Ironlore went under. I don't know how true it is that they PURPOSEFULLY fucked the game up for pirates, though. It still makes me sad for the human race that people decided to forgo the game(which was pretty awesome at the time) because of pre-release reports. Even the shittiest developers take a second glance when a major tech issue rears its head before release, and worst-case scenario is that they patch it a week or two later.
Either way, judging a book by its cover always sucks. I'd say its their loss, but when an awesome company like Ironlore goes down because of it, it's really everyone's =/