I remember playing that all the way back on the Amiga

I played the first game for a bit, I’ll give the sequel a shot for sure

oh that brings me back

I simrace competitively, autogears would destroy my MMR 🤣

Though lack of practice would do that too.

Realistically, I won’t have fun doing it that way.

I have a couple severed tendons and lots of stitches, my entire left hand is immobilized and wrapped up.

Oh look, another shitty live service game getting scuttled after people gave their money to the corporation.

I can’t wait for the next shitty live service game release.

Dungeon Master was distributed on a floppy disk that had a specific weak sector that would randomly return 1 or 0 when read. The game would periodically read that sector and, if it returned the same bit x times in a row, it would kill your entire party. When copying the disk, the original would read either 1 or 0 and then write that value in that specific sector, meaning the copy would always return 1 or 0.

The check was random, hidden in graphics files, and this, combined with some obfuscation and some more copy protection, meant it took over a year for the game to get cracked. A record at the time.

The dev claimed that the time and effort spent on the protection scheme was worth it as it allowed the game to keep selling through typical sales channels for much longer than usual.

Linux was at that point two decades ago. The dogmatic infighting between Linux developers users is ultimately what prevents Linux from being actually useful as a desktop OS.