Klumpen0815: 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.

AstralWanderer: It uses its own online activation system which is why I boycotted it - and that website you link to still states: "Internet Connection required for multiplayer and Online Activation" under System Requirements.

skeletonbow: Great thread idea! Here are some games that I would have bought on release day and spent as much as $50-60 or more on except I intentionally did not because they contain one or more forms of what I consider to be draconian DRM which harms my experience as a paying customer.

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Every single Tom Clancy game released by Ubisoft after Ghost Recon Warfighter 2, including Ghost Recon Future Soldier and anything else in the series since, HAWX, HAWX2, Endwar, and all Splinter Cell titles after Double Agent.

Just about any/every big AAA game released by EA or Ubisoft to mass appeal since 2008 or so. I am a junkie for AAA games and would have bought just about all big huge blockbusters and a number of not as big ones as well, and then went and bought all their expansions and other crap too, and possibly the battle-chest type reissues essentially buying another copy of them over time.

I'd have bought most of Rockstar's non-GTA games. I own all the GTA games and unknown to me some are DRM laden and I've done my research and they have many games I want but absolutely wont buy because they contain DRM. Pity. Sadly, that almost certainly includes Grand Theft Auto 5 which hasn't come out yet. I'd really love to play that game as it looks amazing... but I wont ever buy it unless it is DRM-free on GOG.com or Shinyloot or somewhere else DRM-free.

The Battlefield games, Call of Duty games, tonnes of blockbusters.

Blizzard's Starcraft 2 and Diablo III - wont touch. I'm an avid Blizzard fan and bought many copies of their original games up to Warcraft III and their expansion packs. I wasn't into Warcraft III and the MMO model with monthly paid subscriptions so I skipped that game, but have all of their games before WoW. Starcraft II and Diablo III DRM and mandatory online features/whatever turn me off bigtime and I just don't trust Blizzard to be a consumer friendly company anymore. I love the look and feel of their games and would love more than anything to play them, but well.. not more than I love my money sitting in my wallet. If they put these games out DRM-free and free them up from requiring mandatory use of their online servers in the future, my wallet will fall open hemorrhaging cash to buy one if not 2 or 3 copies of their games (for online and/or LAN multiplayer).

Warner Brothers games and any company that uses GFWL copy protection in the past and refuses to patch it out of their games when GFWL gets shut down this year are off my list also. So Batman Arkham Origins and its expansion and future titles are off my purchase list due to DRM problems from Warner Brothers games (such as Mortal Kombat).

There are countless other games I could mention, but they're mostly from the big name companies mentioned above or others that are nearly as large (Bethesda for example). If a game has shown up in Steam's top 20 or 30 top played games stats page (which I check at least once a week), chances are if it is an interesting game to me in a genre I like, it's either one I own or have on my wishlist, and if it's on my wishlist it's one I'd like to own but if it has draconian DRM it's one I'll never buy.

There are probably 100-150 or more AAA or AA games I would have bought or would buy now if they were DRM free or at least did not have draconian consumer non-friendly DRM. I'm but one voice speaking, but I know for a fact that at least 5 of my gamer friends feel exactly the same and have not bought anything from EA, Ubisoft and some other companies in 5 or 6 or more years for the same reason. There are literally thousands of other games on the market without such restrictions or with far less restrictions and often at far lower prices to boot, that we're able to find tonnes of fun games to play even if we skip the various AAA DRM-laden ones we'd actually like to play but choose not to support due to the bad choices those companies make towards their customers.