I apologise for this post in advance, but I bought this a while back and only just decided to install and start playing it today.

I really don't appreciate the developers leading with a (seemingly unskippable) screen where they appear to guilt trip you because they were nice enough to release their game DRM-free on somewhere like GOG and that we mustn't make copies for our friends or whatever.

I really do not appreciate this kind of attitude from developers, as if they really do not trust that people paying for a DRM-free copy is enough, but they need to remind us that we are oh so lucky that they even bothered giving us the option at all.

It's hard for me to look forward to playing this game now and leaves quite a sour taste in my mouth which is not what you want at the forefront of your mind when trying out someone's game for the first time.

As I said, I'm sorry; this just rubbed me the wrong way.

I would agree with you but I don't see this in my Super Turbo Championship edition of the game. Maybe this is still apart of the Gold Edition (which doesn't include the DLC)?

I just played and finished the game last week and enjoyed it most of the way. I found some of the secret areas difficulties to be far too punishing but overall it's a solid game and worth getting into.

Anyway I can't imagine downloading something from iTunes and getting some notice lecturing me about piracy so I certainly don't expect to see it in my games, especially if developers want to make a fan of me for their next title.

Well it's in whichever version I bought from GOG. I would have taken a screenshot as proof if I weren't so shocked. I'm assuming it's tied to installing and playing at least some version of the game for the first time (it "saves" when you hit the title screen). Unfortunately this put me right off so I haven't played beyond the title screen, and I actually emailed the developers to inform them of my thoughts, for all the good it will do (got a pretty generic response). Although there are mediums where this is more common, such as films, for example, I don't think I've ever seen a game lead with something as clearly accusatory as this.

I know I must sound so whiny, but this type of thing is really irritating.

It's there but you only see it the first time you run the game. Super annoying, it instantly got me in a bad mood. Unfortunately there's no Linux version of Super Turbo Championship, and I'm not interested in battling the game and wine to make use of my gamepad, so it looks like I'll be skipping this title...

Can't download the soundtrack either. And so I regret the money spent... should've pirated it instead.

I disagree. YMMV obviously. Guacamelee is a game full of so much charm and humour, that I don't mind being reminded that the people who made it want to be paid for it. And it only happens once. (If it's happening every time you start the game, you may have a problem with the game being unable to write to the MyDocuments subfolder where it saves save-games, and - it seems - some kind of "I've already shown the DON'T PIRATE message" indicator: see my "no save games on Windows 10" message in this forum).

For me, seeing a polite message like that brings me back to the good old days, when game developers had a sense of humour, knew that you can't prevent piracy 100%, and relied on some kind of mutually-beneficial honour code between them and gamers. They have fun and work hard making the games, we have fun playing them. So we pay them. Some people pirate games, but most don't, and it works.

That's a million miles away from the hideous control-freak world of Steam etc, who think we're all criminals and want to squeeze every last cent/penny/whatever out of us. To get away from that I'm happy to be shown a momentary "please don't copy this game" message.

If it was in-game, now.... like what I've heard about AC Origins' code being nerfed by DRM code, taking up valuable mips on your CPU and GPU.... that would be evil on a Steam level. As it is, I don't mind it.

I definitely saw this on the Turbo Championship Edition but only for a millisecond but I could understand why people would be upset about it.

What is upseting is that the description do mention 4 local coop players on Good old Games, and the GoG version still don't have it...

That is merely contemptuous from devs, and upseting for their customers who pay the exact same price !

Are we getting petty or what? Just a simple screen and there is people saying that they'll skip this game. Plain ridiculous and entitled.

Eh its not petty when crude like that is pulled .. infact this sort of crude when its pulled actually makes many people annoyed and others temped and others who was against sharing it actually then sharing games for such things .. Its a sorta''you going to be like that then I might aswell do what you don't want '' thinking.. Is it right to do so? No but it shows that the ones putting a game here actually would rather not from seeing it as like a step above piracy to pull something like that.. As its like''we only did this for pr reasons not because we wanted to'' scenario feel to it