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Posted April 09, 2014
The only thing I own that comes with modern style DRM is a Half-life compendium type thing on Steam [bought at a way knock-off price]. Other than that I haven't purchased and games with DRM since 2000 or so [I didn't buy any, at all, for a long stretch before GOG and then the Humble Store came along.]

Mind you - I don't have the hardware to run most modern games, anyway - but even if I had I wouldn't touch lease-type game purchases. Same reason I don't own an ebook reader yet - way too much vendor tie in with those, still [though getting slightly better.]
Posted April 09, 2014
This is a bit of a lazy post as I'm not going to list all the games I've not bought - suffice to say there are loads. I often look at the Gaming Deal thread and Isthereanydeal.com and DRM is the first thing I look for....if the game has it, I don't want it.

There are two exceptions:

Mass Effect 2 - I got this soon after buying my laptop to see how it performed on newish titles
Dead Space - As it was free and I just love the series.
Posted April 10, 2014
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Mnemon: Mind you - I don't have the hardware to run most modern games, anyway - but even if I had I wouldn't touch lease-type game purchases. Same reason I don't own an ebook reader yet - way too much vendor tie in with those, still [though getting slightly better.]
Not one of my hundreds of eBooks has any DRM.
They are all from the Project Gutenberg (huge free classic collection) and some from Humble Bundle.
Thanks to Calibre, you can convert anything to the Amazon .MOBI-format (the DRM-free one, not the other one).
Maybe I'd go for the Kobo Mini (5'') today though, but my Kindle Paperwhite is good too.
Post edited April 10, 2014 by Klumpen0815
Posted April 10, 2014
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KneeTheCap: I really don't care about DRM as long as it does not hinder my ability to play.
Yeah, that is one of the reasons I don't generally like Steam. My wake up call was when it suddenly decided to hinder me from playing any of my existing Steam games on my Windows 2000 machine, for which I had bought those games.

I presume the same will happen again when the Steam client stops supporting XP. I'm pretty sure I have many older games on Steam too that run better (or at all) on my XP machines, than on my Windows 7 or 8 machines. Too bad if Valve will suddenly decide I shouldn't be able to run any of them on XP anymore. In some cases it may mean I can't run them at all, period (because they don't work right on my newer PCs with newer Windows versions).
Post edited April 10, 2014 by timppu
Posted April 10, 2014
any game that has an always-online requirement is a deal breaker for me.
Posted April 10, 2014
I forgot to mention: Age of Wonders III.

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/troll off

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Posted April 10, 2014
Umm... where to begin?

Half-Life 2
Bioshock
Bioshock Infinite
Mirror's Edge
Kane & Lynch 2
Ghostbusters - The Video Game
Fallout New Vegas
GTA 4
Dead Space
Duke Nukem Forever
Rage
Deus Ex HR
Tomb Raider
Dishonoured
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Post edited April 10, 2014 by fronzelneekburm
Posted April 10, 2014
Skyrim and Dishonoured.
Most modern games try way too hard to be movies anyway, so I don't feel I really miss many good games.
Posted April 10, 2014
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AstralWanderer: Mount and Blade
Mount and Blade isn't Steam exclusive.

http://www.mountandbladewarband.com/buy

Even if you do buy it on Steam, you can use the CD key it gives to activate an otherwise DRM-less version you can download from somewhere or other on the site. It's been a while since I did it, but you can find instructions on the forum.
Posted April 10, 2014
I stopped buying games for ages, after the first bad DRMs and limitations.
Normal old keys inside the boxes were ok for me, but, anyway, I had to avoid more physical titles, due to space issues.

GOG brought me back to stores due to their beliefs, catalog, community, and cheap prices.

I hope they'll continue to grow and that other media will follow this example (my current movie\music purchases are sadly 0)
Post edited April 10, 2014 by phaolo
Posted April 10, 2014
All of them. I will never ever pay for a copy of a game, fullstop. I pay for the service. When I buy games on GOG, I pay for permanent cloud hosting of the files, reviews, support, and communication by the blues. I see absolutely no problem with piracy, and the only reason I haven't pirated a game in ages is because GOG provides better service for the games I can actually run and I get paid enough to afford it. Which is to say, between a GOG game downloaded off GOG with quality support and (some other) non-GOG game with support provided by the TPB comment section, I will always choose the GOG game because my time is worth more than the money.

Now DRM is shitty service. I will never pay for service I know in advance to be worse than what I can get for free.
Posted April 10, 2014
Starcraft II expansion (the original game tricked me... damn online/log in nonsense), Skyrim, Mass Effect series, Diablo 3, Thief, any Assassins Creed game after the first one, Fallout 3+NV, any Valve game, Crusader Kings II, Total War games after Medieval II... I can go on forever :p

Pretty much any tipple AAA game that interested me but requires online clients.
Post edited April 10, 2014 by Tpiom
Posted April 10, 2014
Skyrim, Thief, all the newer Serious Sam.

It is nice to see I am not alone thinking that giving up a little to protect our obvious rights is worthwhile. :D Thanks guys.

However personally I have no problem with the "code on the back of the manual" thingy; if I can legally uninstall, give the CD to a friend, and he can play without problems to me it is not a violation of rights.
Post edited April 10, 2014 by etb
Posted April 10, 2014
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Starmaker: All of them. I will never ever pay for a copy of a game, fullstop. I pay for the service.
From what do you think game developers should live while making great games if nobody should pay them?
It's either starve or do something else if one follows a pirates way of life. There are no great games anymore then.

I love donation systems, but look at the statistics at HumbleBundle.com.
Linux people always pay the most out of their free will, while the majoritiy (Windows users) tries to get it as cheap as possible.
Post edited April 10, 2014 by Klumpen0815
Posted April 10, 2014
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Mnemon: Mind you - I don't have the hardware to run most modern games, anyway - but even if I had I wouldn't touch lease-type game purchases. Same reason I don't own an ebook reader yet - way too much vendor tie in with those, still [though getting slightly better.]
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Klumpen0815: Not one of my hundreds of eBooks has any DRM.
They are all from the Project Gutenberg (huge free classic collection) and some from Humble Bundle.
Thanks to Calibre, you can convert anything to the Amazon .MOBI-format (the DRM-free one, not the other one).
Maybe I'd go for the Kobo Mini (5'') today though, but my Kindle Paperwhite is good too.
And eventhough it has DRM, the DRM is easy to rip off the .azw kindle files. I do it after each purchase. The first book I ever have a problem removing the DRM, will be the last book I ever buy from Amazon.
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