Confession...

[Mina Darsh]

Um, well, I dunno if this is wise to tell and such, but, I just felt like at least letting Frictional Games know this.

When I first read about Amnesia, I was a bit skeptic, new studio, screens were good but couldn't find a (p)review on Gamespot, only user made ones, so I feared wasting money and first downloaded the game the non legal way, and played for a bit. Then I started to read more and more about how good this game was, and meanwhile while playing I got to see for myself how good it is. Then later I read the 'A week after release' blog entry, reading how Frictional Games seems to suffer a bit too much from piracy.

So, I bought the full Steam version now, and threw the non legal aquired copy in the trash. Because this studio really needs to grow, as if their games stay this good, it could make some of the greater studios bite the dust. Now please don't hate me for almost having pirated this game, I admit it is very wrong, and probably no excuse is good enough, but in truth I do not want to pirate at all, as legal copies simply bring so many benefits. (Updates, no extra bugs due to the rip, et cetera.)

Only excuse I can come up with, even though it is still wrong, is if companies just make it too hard to buy the actual game, or in my example, content. I wanted the DLC for Fallout 3 for example, but no physical game copies are sold, so the only place when I wanted to buy them was in the Microsoft store, and there, you need Microsoft Points... And yup, you need to buy them with a Credit Card, no PayPal available... In that case, since I cannot even get a Credit Card in my country, I simply can't buy the points needed. I those cases I'm really like: "Okay, you don't want us to rip, then perhaps you should not only raise security, but also work on availability?"

Anyway, the game is downloading on Steam as I speak, and gonna enjoy playing the legal version finally. (Price is a bargain, really! )