Yay for posting about others' blog posts

I have definitely reached a new low. [grin]

So here's a couple of things I read recently which I found interesting. Firstly, care of "Tales Of the Rampant Coyote" we have "The Top 6 Reasons to Support Indie RPGs". I think you could apply these to all indie games, but nonetheless I think his observations are spot-on.

Secondly, here's another entry into the "Why do people pirate games" discussion. In this case, he's asking why people pirate his games, but again, it seems like the responses were more about game piracy in general.

Personally, I still see these reasons as just excuses for what is essentially theft (and that's with the full admission that I used to engage in game piracy in my youth), but I am steadily being persuaded that this attitude is an unproductive one when considering the question: "How do we convince pirates to purchase games legitimately?"