Hello and welcome to the forums Stubbie!
The veterans here that actually read Swen's (Larian Studio's owner) blog (
www.lar.net) will know that he actually did this himself. It was the only way for him to play video games growing up. The end result is he is running a successful business and helping tons of independent game developers build their companies. He's even advertised some of their kickstarter products.
I'm not sure why there wasn't a demo version available, I guess because of how they ran the beta. I wish Larian would have made a demo along with the current game. I would suggest making the last version of the beta a demo.
Torrents are not bad. I myself have pirated a Larian game. When the hack came out about converting the German version of Divinity 2, I torrented it and hacked it. Of course when it came out I bought the game, then DKS, and then again with the Divinity Anthology pack.
The important thing is that Stubbie here is now a paying customer. Also Larian doesn't care to waste money on DRM that gets cracked rather quickly. If anyone here got the Anthology and read the developer diary, there will know how much Larian hates DRM themselves.
I'm sure there will be another kickstarter campaign in the future going off the success of this past one, would be a way to help fund the next game in development and help beta test it.
