Hey Guys,

Two weeks ago we made an announcement to let everyone know where we stand on (invasive) DRM in PC Gaming and where we want to take the PC Gaming Industry with our vision and our plans. Today we are happy to announce that all our members will receive a condensed form of our business proposal within the next 10 days that will encompass our story, our vision and our plans for the immediate and long-term future. With this, our members will be able to discover:

1. Who we are as Consumer-Focused DRM Evaluators for the PC Gaming Industry,
2. What we provide in our line of services catered for our members, Consumers, other DRM vendors and Gaming Publishers,
3. Why our presence and why our solutions are sorely needed in the PC Gaming Industry,
4. When we can achieve our goals and tick off key milestones,
5. How we as Consumer-Focused DRM Evaluators can go about providing our products and services to the Industry, and, more importantly
6. Where we can go from here.

Most importantly, members will be able to see where they fit into the model and why we are determined to help not just our staff members, fellow Gamers, Consumers and the Industry, but also in other parts of the Community through:

• Our Values
• Our Mission
• Our Goals, and,
• Our Vision for the future.

Some of our members, Interested Parties, as well as our current and prospective staff members have already received a comprehensive version of our business proposal. Without their inspiration, timely advice and patience through our rebranding process we would never have completed the business proposal. Without them, we would never be able to show you, the members, what we have in store for you.

However, there’s much work to be done.

Over the next few weeks RYG will reform and redesign its DRM Testing Regimen, Project RYG. More Testing Questions, Categories and enhanced testing guidelines and methodologies will dominate the revision process. We will also start to investigate PC Games marketed for children, something which Parents may be interested to see. Members and the Gaming World will start to see these changes as we begin our self-financed independent tests and analyses on all DRM schemes and Digital Distribution systems within the PC Gaming Industry. We will include Steamworks, Ubisoft’s “Online Delivery Service” as well as revisit some household DRMs, such as SecuROM and StarForce.

Our goal: set the record straight on each DRM scheme and show just why DRM, as a whole, have been getting worse (and not better) within the PC Gaming Industry.

While we continue to improve our DRM evaluating services, we will also target our members with relevant DRM news and content on our website, reorganise our forum to coincide with our rebranding process as well as start spreading our message outwards to other DRM Vendors, Developers and Publishers.

For now it is pretty much business as usual. If you have any questions or queries regarding the raft of changes and future projects you can contact Martin via. email (martin.pham@reclaimyourgame.com).

For now we’re letting each and every one of you know that RYG isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. Our focus is to keep Publishers honest with better DRM services from Vendors. We want Gamers to enjoy playing any PC Game they choose without the hassles of badly-implemented DRM.

It’s what we promise to deliver. And a promise we intend to keep.

From all of us at RYG, we thank you for your patience and understanding.

The RYG Staff

Hey guys,

First of all we would like to say thank you for staying patient with us.

As you know the migration, along with the rebranding process of RYG has been difficult. But it wasn’t impossible. Our team have been working tirelessly to get RYG back on its feet. Most of you keeping a close watch on RYG would have noticed:

• Ruben’s (Sblade) efforts to transfer our data from Joomla over to vBulletin, which has benefited our Communications Team
• Mary (MaryH) and Anna (Choklad) and their contributions with growing our Twitter base as well as their well-written articles
• Kath (saraswati) coming on board to assist in the functionality of RYG and ensure our members, as well as our readership, have easy access to our source of DRM-related information

Their handiwork will become much more noticeable in the coming weeks leading into September where we will begin our ‘Soft Launch’ into the PC Gaming Industry as Independent DRM Evaluators. Lisa (Calipip4) and Martin have already begun laying the foundations with the registration of RYG within Australia. We’ve also found 4 new staff members with 3 potentials to add to our ranks. And with our current staff we’re rebuilding RYG from the ground up with the aim of delivering our products to Consumers, DRM Vendors and Publishers. As many of you know, they include our:

• DRM Testing, Advice and Evaluation from an end-user point of view, as well as
• Our DRM-related news service and content

We will keep you abreast with what’s going on as we continue to make final preparations in the coming weeks. There’ll be updates regarding our DRM Testing Service, which will feature new Testing Sections. With more Questions and Testing Sections ensures that we test every aspect of any DRM based on its end-user qualities. DRMs now will have an even closer eye to watch thanks to our updated Tests. We’ll also let you know with where RYG is heading and, most importantly, how it affects you as a Gamer. If you would like to be involved in some way with RYG please email myself at martin.pham@reclaimyourgame.com and we’ll see what we can do for you. For now we’re letting each and every one of you know that RYG isn’t going anywhere anytime soon. Our focus is to keep Publishers honest with better DRM services from Vendors. We want Gamers to enjoy playing any PC Game they choose without the hassles of badly-implemented DRM.
It’s what we promise to deliver. And a promise we intend to keep.

From all of us at RYG, we thank you for your patience and understanding.

The RYG Staff

If you want to be a part of RYG's move to push for end-user friendly DRM schemes you can:

**** Become a member of RYG through our forums HERE
**** Become a member of RYG through our Facebook, Twitter, Tumblr or YouTube sites

**** Enquire either through our forum HERE or via email HERE if you wish to:
- ** Become a DRM Tester
- ** Work with our Communications and Research Team
- ** Submit articles, open letters, podcasts, videos and reviews

**** Help spread the word about RYG through your websites, newsgroups, forums, blogs and the like

We appreciate your continued support and hope it continues as we continue our fight against invasive DRM schemes and those who choose to employ them.

We've just tested more games protested by ByteShield implemented on eight JoWooD Games. The testing results confirmed the End-User Friendliness of ByteShield as it passed all 8 categories. Receiving a 100% in 7 categories and 1 category with 92%. That gives ByteShield v2.2 a 98% overall score.

Congratulations ByteShield.

* Batch 1* Agatha Christie – And Then There Were None, Agatha Christie – Evil Under The Sun, Agatha Christie – Murder On The Orient Express, Gothic 3 Forsaken Gods (English version), Gothic 3 Götterdämerung - (German version) - same game as Forsaken Gods but in German.

*Batch 2* The Guild 2 Pirates of the European Seas - Gold, The Guild 2 Venice, Painkiller Black Edition
To view the full testing results, see attchments to download the PDF files.

RYG is happy to report that we've completed the final testing of the initial testing of StarForce. This time was to test their Disc version.

We've been working alongside StarForce for many months and are very pleased with the testing results from the last round when we tested their ‘FrontLine ProActive’ but we're also very happy with the results of this last lot of testing for their 'FL Universal FL Disc Pro' & 'FL Universal FL ProActive Pro', both were included for testing using their disc based version, unlike the last round of tests which was done via download.

As you can see from the Summary images below, 'StarForces's FrontLine Universal FL Disc Pro' passed 4 out of 8 components and 'StarForce's FrontLine Universal FL ProActive Pro' still passed 6 out of 8 components.

Full comments are included on each of the testing forms and are available for download.

StarForce once again proves through these testings that their DRM has improved immensely over the years and is still being improved to this day. StarForce is currently hard at work with the development of a newer type/version of their protection and we wish them the best of luck in succeeding in making it end user friendly.

Download the full testing report for StarForces's FrontLine Universal FL Disc Pro (see attachment - below).

Download the full testing report for StarForce's FrontLine Universal FL ProActive Pro (see attachment - below).