Yeah, ARMA 3 was one I skipped on as well because of Bohemia's new-found Steam sycophancy. Operation Flashpoint still runs on my laptop (it's too slow for ARMA 1 and 2) so that scratches my realistic military itch.

Also, I originally skipped on Watch_Dogs and got it for the PS4 instead due to the DRM, although since my PC has died, the DRM is a moot point now.

Not bought and will never happen:
- all uplay games
- all origin exclusive games
- all blizzard games which are sold through their own portal
- all "always-on" games in general
... and yet I have many unplayed games, so it's not my loss, only theirs.

All the single player games that require you to be connected to the internet during play.

Right, for whatever weird reason, I always add an 's' at the end of the title.


But basically, you can't have a digital DRM-free installer then right?

It's fine, I was mildly curious about the game as it was highly rated and looked intriguing, but I wasn't hooked.

Not playing the later X instalments was the bigger sacrifice for me as I enjoyed X2 immensely.

Anything that has limited activations that I can not bypass with a little computer magic.

I haven't bought anything with DRM for a while. I think 2013's Tomb Raider was the last one and before that.. something 2012ish Steam sales stuff.

I would have bought some newer games for certain were they available without DRM. Some of the recent Linux-AAA's like Metro.

I was searching for new historical sailing trading sims or strategy games, and I had to avoid the East Indian Company series and the Commander: Conquest of the Americas series.

I know that their DRM isn't considered heavy by many people, as it is a online activation, but it is a DRM I absolutely hate.

I play some games with DRM. I support DRMfree, but I can't play only those games, unfortunatelly. I've played some with hard DRMs too because some time ago I didn't know anything about DRMfree "ideology", but them made me think about it. Nowadays I don't accept any DRM that doesn't respect my freedom, like going to some place without internet and carry my games to play with my friends for a weekend, for example. Some games I haven't played for DRMs are:

-SimCity: I think most of us know what they did and how it worked.
-NBA 2k14 (in my brother's PS4): You can't play/continue the career mode if you started online and you don't continue paying PSN. Sony said the PS4 wasn't going to have DRM, but finally PS4 has it, and it works with PSN/PS+ (paid, not free), no with games directly. No more to say.
-WOW: I don't want to pay every month I play a game, even if I play only a day in that month.
-Diablo3
-Assassin's Creed 2
-Driver: San Francisco
-Battlefield Series: Their client, the game has to be opened from there...I have it because Origin gifted, but I haven't bought anything there
-Deus Ex: The Fall: It couldn't be played with jailbreak. I had always Android and don't know if with rooted phones it happened too, but it was enough for me.

I could say more but at in a first view those are the games I remember now, but really are much more games.

-Wanna add Windows: I changed to Linux for the DRM limitations (in my case limitation of installations in a bad moment).

I don't have consoles since lot of time, for DRMs too, more than for other comparisons (I prefer a pc at all, but I changed for that). I can't buy Ubisoft/EA games too, I don't want to give them anything. They don't respect their players, and not only with the DRMs.

Nowadays I use to buy in Steam only the new games that aren't DRM free, if I can choose I buy in GOG. Everyday I hate DRMs more. I support Steam in some ways (like the Linux support, the "revolution" of pc gaming nowadays+...), but I don't understand why I can't give directly a game of 2 hours of duration to my sister or to a friend, even if the pc is the same. We have alternatives, but why we have to do crazy things to play it?

I tried The Witcher 2 thanks to a friend that bought on GOG and recommended me to try it. I loved the game and because of seeing how GOG and CDProjectRED work, I bought both games and I've bought TW3 preorder.

DRMs are used to track how we play the games, too. It isn't only for piracy, and that's too intrusive (and maybe ilegal).

DRM supports piratery. DRMfree not

I avoid all of it. I hate it and it serves no purpose. One thing troubles me though: why on earth does it have its apologists? I mean I can understand how some would attack DRM, but why would others defend it? What do they gain?

GTA IV. I can live with Steam for extremely cheap newer AAA titles if there are no alternatives, but GFWL on top of Steamworks is a big no-go for me.

There was a recently-locked (actually, deleted) thread maybe two-three weeks ago where the OP posited - with semi-related links - that DRM helped innovation. IIRC, it was something about how developers would not innovate if they knew that DRM-free was going to lead to rampant piracy (read: loss of income for the hard work).

I get that argument, but it ignores one big point: DRM isn't really preventing piracy. Multiplayer does, to a point, but DRM itself clearly does not. Cracks often appear within hours or a couple days...

I personally started avoiding anything from Stardock.
For someone who was big on Gamer's Bill of Rights they fallen very low in my eyes.
Insisting on additional account at Stardock for "update" purposes for games they did not touch for years. Right...

I had the same reaction. Stardock is completely off my radar now.