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Posted September 12, 2009
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How many companies sell DRM Free games. Keep adding to the thread others developers you may know about that produce DRM Free games.
DRM Free Gaming Companies:
<span class="bold">Good Old Games</span>
2D Boy
Archive Games (All games DRM Free except Qwak. See Robby's Post [14th post]) requires the Archive Games installer
Basilisk Games
Bit-Blot
Citeremis
Cryptic Comet
Dejobaan Games
Digital Eel
Ethereal Darkness Interactive
<span class="bold">Good Old Games</span>
Hemisphere Games
Longbow Games
Ludosity
Matrix Games (only requires you to enter your serial key.)
Paradox interactive (Some of their self produced titles.)
Pom Pom Games.
Positech Games
Tale of Tales
TimeTrap
Zombie Cow Studios
DRM Free Games:
And Yet It Moves
Armageddon Empires
[url=bit-blot]Aquaria[/url]
Aztaka
Bob Came in Pieces
Crayon Physics Deluxe
Emberwind
Eschalon Book 1 (very nice RPG)
Eufloria
Faerie Solitaire
Gratuitous Space Battles
Machinarium
Osmos (if bought on the developer's site)
Prince of Persia 7th game in series
Stalker:Shadow of Chernobyl
The Spirit Engine II
World of Goo
Time-Limited DRM I.e. The DRM has been removed over time through patching of the game.
Civ 4 : DRM (Securom) removed with the latest patch at least for retail version.
NWN2 : DRM (Securom) has been also removed with latest patches.
The Witcher : DRM (Tages) removed with latest patches.
Titan Quest
X3 Terran Conflict : DRM (Tages) removed with the latest patch 2.5.
X3 Reunion : Starforce removed with latest patch and is out of the Gold Edition Retail version.
Post edited April 30, 2010 by Faithful
Posted September 12, 2009
There are some companies that are hit and miss. For example, Ubisoft's Prince of Persia was released with no DRM. Stardock's an odd case.
All their retail games are (and will be) released with no DRM, but you'll need Impulse to get patches.
The Witcher had the DRM patched out. So did NWN2. So have other games.
I believe Paradox releases their games with no DRM, but I could be mistaken.
Some games from D2D are DRM free.
It's really something you have to do some research on. Seems funny, but if you want to get DRM-free games, you have to put in more time researching the DRM schemes used (if any) than you spend finding out about the game itself.
Posted September 12, 2009
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Coelocanth: Seems funny, but if you want to get DRM-free games, you have to put in more time researching the DRM schemes used (if any) than you spend finding out about the game itself.

True, I wanted to purchase Scrabble Blast for someone and I wrote Microsoft asking about any DRM in the game, they did not answer but pointed me back to the game info page for the game system specs. *sigh Of course I never bought it.
some companies are not forthcoming and I think not honest with their customers when they ask honest questions about what is going to be installed on their computers.
Posted September 12, 2009
DRM policy varies with publisher and games.
THQ published Stalker:Shadow of Chernobyl DRM free. The second, Stalker: Clear Sky had severe DRM restriction.
A number of Aspyer published games has no DRM. Dark sector, Men of War, Death Track: Resurrection, Cryostasis, Necrovision, and 4X4 Hummer all have no DRM.
A number of wargames publisher are DRM free. For example, Matrix games published DRM free wargames.
Posted September 12, 2009
If you count indie games then a ton of those are DRM free. World of Goo by 2D Boy is one example.
Posted September 12, 2009
We should create a list of all known Companies and Games that are Truly DRM Free.
Posted September 12, 2009
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Faithful: We should create a list of all known Companies and Games that are Truly DRM Free.

What about updating your opening post with titles and developers/publishers as people post suggestions?
Posted September 12, 2009
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Faithful: We should create a list of all known Companies and Games that are Truly DRM Free.
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Navagon: What about updating your opening post with titles and developers/publishers as people post suggestions?

Good Idea, I will.
Posted September 12, 2009
I confirm for paradox games and only the game they produce themselves are DRM free so far.
Posted September 12, 2009
Patched versions of the Unreal & Unreal Tournament series only require serial keys for installation.
Pathologic doesn't require the disc or a serial.
Dawn of War and its expansions have been patched to remove disc check.
Posted September 12, 2009
Civ 4 beyond the sword : DVD edition has removed the CD-Check DRM with the latest patch tough Securom may remained installed on the PC but I risk to say that you can uninstall it without issues if you know how to do it.
The Witcher : Tagès removed with the latest patch, tough this may cause dysfunction with other games that uses Tagès.
X3. Reunion : Starforce removed with the latest patch.
X3 Terran Conflict : DRM supposed to be removed someday at least it's what they say on their forum.
Armageddon Empires : http://www.crypticcomet.com/games/AE/armageddon_empires.html
Indie DRM-free game.
AGEOD games : http://www.ageod.com/en/ Indie-niche wargames. Their production can be considered DRM-free so far as they only need a valid key to be launched. Other games on their sites have DRMs.
Posted September 12, 2009
Osmos (if bought on the developer's site) is DRM free, the download link on the other hand, is only availible 5 times, although you could probably get another if you mailed them.
http://www.hemispheregames.com/osmos/
Posted September 12, 2009
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Narakir: The Witcher : Tagès removed with the latest patch, tough this may cause dysfunction with other games that uses Tagès.

The patch only removes the protection from the game. The stupid drivers still remain installed. They caused me quite a few problems with 7 x64. They surely did add several more seconds for me to wait, for Windows to boot. And after every boot, a driver compatibility issue message was coming up.
But I fixed it easily, by deleting the files manually (the official removal tool doesn't work in 7 x64).
Post edited September 12, 2009 by KavazovAngel
Posted September 12, 2009
...i think, in essence, all 'old' games are the safe ones when it comes to DRM-free. You just cannot be sure on any other, and as said, we know have the silly situation where we spend more time researching for a game DRM-infected or not. That said distribution might have something to do with it as well. For example, i have Warlords Battlecry III and that's the actual retail game in a DVD box (bought way before GOG.com). And that game DOES have a check wich IIRC is starforce or whatever (its installed on older PC and i'm away, and can't properly remember, but its that grey symbol that reminds me of star trek :B ).
Now, that game is also at GOG and believing the site's guide lines, it should be free of such thing. (anyone that got that game at GOG please verify this for me? thkx :] )
Also, Unreal and UT (thats the original game), do not require anything really other than install (again, these are the actual CD retail versions). I suppose that UT2004 at GOG requires only a CD-key?...
Posted September 12, 2009
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zM: ...i think, in essence, all 'old' games are the safe ones when it comes to DRM-free. You just cannot be sure on any other, and as said, we know have the silly situation where we spend more time researching for a game DRM-infected or not. That said distribution might have something to do with it as well. For example, i have Warlords Battlecry III and that's the actual retail game in a DVD box (bought way before GOG.com). And that game DOES have a check wich IIRC is starforce or whatever (its installed on older PC and i'm away, and can't properly remember, but its that grey symbol that reminds me of star trek :B ).
Now, that game is also at GOG and believing the site's guide lines, it should be free of such thing. (anyone that got that game at GOG please verify this for me? thkx :] )
Also, Unreal and UT (thats the original game), do not require anything really other than install (again, these are the actual CD retail versions). I suppose that UT2004 at GOG requires only a CD-key?...

ALL games on GOG are fully DRM free, no exceptions. Some games have a CD key (UT, for example), but that is already set up at install time, if you want a new key to play online (in case the server you're connecting to detects a duplicate key or something) just send a mail to the support team and you'll get a new one.
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