Wing Commander III is now free
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EA has failed its race. It has failed itself. It has failed the human it knows as the customer. The gamer, its playmate, it has failed. Its heart has not been valiant enough, its marketing has not been skilled enough, and it has failed the true gamers.
In fact, that would send a very clear message to EA that their DRM is worth, at best, negative $6 to some customers. If people would rather pay $6 for a game without the DRM than pay $0 for the game inextricably bundled with the DRM, even a corporate executive could do that math without screwing it up.
Of course, if you opt for Origin instead, I guess that also sends the message that you don't value your control over your computer any more than $6.
But still, had so much fun playing this on my 68030 back in the day (just before Apple made the 68K to PowerPC transition...)
That's the irony of the Mac processor switch: it's usually easier to run an old game in DOSBox or a Windows VM than to run a classic MacOS or PowerPC OS X game.