Sonic 2 HD

[Alpha Six]

Oh God I left a long and angry rant on the release's comment's section. My bickering about the art probably wasn't necessary now that I know they were aiming for the coloring style in the game's manual, but I am still very pissed at the devs for throwing a broken alpha out there. No, not a demo, not even a beta, an alpha!

The compatibility is laughable, the DRM sets most anti-virus software off, and it won't even load on half the PCs that try to run it. I've been waiting for a playable demo since the project's beginning for crying out loud, and they should have waited a bit longer too, when their latest build was actually stable; even if LOst is going on an all out feature-panic with the engine's development from the sound of it. They were way too eager to get this into the public's hands. Pretty much anyone else in the fan community would get roasted on-site for pulling crap like that, what makes them the exception?

The whole thing was delayed because their idiotic programmer, LOst, decided to intentionally delay the ENTIRE RELEASE TO UNKNOWINGLY PUT DMR (or something, it deals with liscensing security to prevent hacking, which also sets of trojan alerts constantly without harm) INTO THE GAME.

To be honest, I could understand why they would want DRM packed in there. Think about, a near-professional recreation of Sonic 2 might just tempt a few pirates into removing the disclaimer screens, burning it onto a stack of discs and selling it for loads of cash on Ebay. Now while the fan community wouldn't dare do this, someone else would. Even SEGA, who may or may not be tolerant of fan games, might feel the need to give Sonic 2 HD a cease-and-desist well before the project's completion for that reason, I think. Something of this magnitude could use a little protection.

Not that it really matters any more, pirates crack right past DRM and laugh at it very rapidly these days, so stemming the whole project's development to implement something that can be so easily ripped out by hackers later on is just a waste of time and turns off the player-base. I find it both stupid and pointless; that guy is just wasting their time.

boy, you sure are Really Mad about a nonprofit fanmade alpha hack that is being made for no other reason than because they want to

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seriously since when is "we really want our fans of this project to try out the alpha of this project" a bad thing? seriously, have you never heard of "open alpha testing?"