Wildbill wrote:
If you conduct a search, for example, on "La Wares SNES English Translation" you will encounter a fair number of hits that appear to announce the release of our patch. Some hits actually do, from reputable sites that cover gaming activities objectively. Other hits, however, direct you to malware sites that a decent antivirus software may help you deflect.
This, I would say, is intentional, since it follows our release so soon. Could it be the cart pirates? Maybe, or other malignant souls could be afoot. Carefully examine a few hits, and you might be surprised at what turns up. Prior to helping produce these patches, I enjoyed a long career in military intelligence and other government security fields, so digging up information from many sources poses little challenge to me. Although inactive now, I am still under oath, for life - subject to recall at the pleasure of the President - to protect my countrymen, residents, and allies from any kind of harm to their persons or property.
My background should explain why I enjoy RPGs so much, now that I no longer engage in real missions. It is sad, however, that sociopaths are trying to spoil this and so much of what was once good in the world, but D-D has enemies lurking in the shadows. I would not want to hear that a La Wares player suffered system damage, due to an interest in our patch. I don't know how to overcome such hate and resentment toward D-D's hobby work, but always remember this. Bad things only get worse when good men and women do nothing.
Thank you very much for the warning, Wildbill. One cannot be careful enough in this "every man for himself" situation that has become the internet lately. I wonder what these kind of people hope to achieve aiming at a community of retro-rpg enthusiasts rather than the sites delivering pirate versions of newly released games such as the Neptunia games, Trails Of Cold Steel, Lost Sphear, and the like. They would have a lot more potential victims. Well, I suppose they're aiming at those as well.
I, for one, when in need to download any legal game/software, translation patch, you-name-it, always try to go to the official site and get it from there. That way one avoids (at least partially) taking unnecessary risks.