The harm that software pirates do

[Ubik]

Well, I fully agree with you... As far as I am concerned 98% of the games released are just crap. But I also play Rowan's Battle of Britain (good blend between flight sim and stategy game), X-Tension (a game in the line of the old ELITE), Europa Universalis (very good strategy game set between the XIV and XVII centuries, where you play one of the 8 major powers in Europe). I am also a big fan of an old tactical game called Steel Panthers
(you can dowload it for free at www.matrixgames.com)
I must say I also enjoy Heroes of Might and Magic III... although the real breakthrough wass in the first of the series the others are just more of the same...