Still haven't played Skyrim because of the DRM. That one has definitely been the hardest to resist.

Another one I really wanted at released but passed on at first was Divinity II: Ego Draconis. The publisher insisted that the online activation was only a temporary measure and would be removed "at some later date." I politely informed them that because of that I would then be purchasing their game "at some later date." They did eventually drop the activation, though, and I immediately purchased a copy -- which then was the "director's cut" version including the expansion. I had to wait a bit, but I got the game with the expansion for less than half the original game's price. Good things do indeed come to those who wait.

Same here, I swore off buying new PC games when retails started to force Steam upon everyone. Emulation of my old console classics and hunting down all the old PC games that I always wanted but didn't have the funds as a kid was my way to go for the last years and the upside of that is, that I didn't need a new PC in all that time.
Since it has gotten worse with the big game companies, I kept WinXP for gaming and changed to Linux later on for indie gaming and everything else.

It strikes me as very odd, that people pay so much money for renting a game, while there are so many good games on GoG and HB that you can actually buy. The prices at Steam are just horrendous.

It's like a video store would tell you
"hey, give us the full amount and you can rent it without a set time frame, just keep in mind that it's not yours, always tell us when you want to play it and give it back as soon as our shop closes."

Dafuq?

While GoG and HB are telling me
"Give us the usual amount or use our weekly sales to buy it cheap, you can have all the bonus stuff and DLCs that is/are lying around on our servers for free, if you want them. Oh, and if your copies somehow got damaged or lost, we give you a new one anytime, we may add other languages too later on if we do not have them yet, have fun and don't forget installing it on your netbook too if you like, we stopped using CDs and DVDs and all this SecuRom and Starforce stuff.

diablo 3 and the last sim city

None. If I'm interested and the price is right I get it regardless of DRM.

I am unsure if postponing the purchase due to DRM counts?

I generally started buying much less games back when CD and DVD games started having Starforce and stuff. I just didn't want to gather a library of wonky copy protected games, and I am glad I didn't, as I think many of them have severe problems running on newer Windows versions, just because of the copy protection.

For online-authentication DRM, I am unsure if I've decided not to buy some game _ever_ due to the DRM. Sometimes I end up getting e.g. Steam-only games from Humble Bundles.

More likely the DRM causes me to postpone the purchase, which in time may turn into forgetting about the game altogether => not buying it at all. For DRM-free games, I am more likely to buy them earlier into my gaming library, and pay more for them.

About as important to me though is the DLC madness with some games. I prefer knowing beforehand how much the "full experience" will end up costing me, so I prefer getting a full package with all the relevant DLCs. I usually feel that trying to evaluate each and every DLC separately (whether I should buy it or not) is just too much work, for just one game. Games like Magicka, Darksiders 2, some Total War games with dozens of big and small DLCs... meh. Better to wait for a full version with everything included.

I'm sure some will claim it is very easy to tell by just a short description whether certain DLC is relevant(?) or not, but I haven't developed that kind of sixth sense yet. A new weapon and vehicle? Cosmetic or not? How the heck do I know, without playing the game first with and without? For the record, I don't think that e.g. the extra truck in Far Cry 2 Fortune's Pack was merely "cosmetic".

To me it seems that people comment on whether they found certain DLC interesting and relevant _after_ they have played that particular DLC. But that doesn't help much when you have to decide that before the purchase.

Maybe SPAZ (Space Pirates and Zombies) would have been one game I wouldn't have bought at all, if they had not removed the DRM in the end. But that was because they promised to remove the DRM, but then kept moving the goalposts.

I didn't want to reward them for breaking their promises, so I solemnly decided not to buy SPAZ until they keep their promise and remove the DRM.

Eventually they did... by releasing it as part of a Humble Bundle. Ok then, I bought it as part of that HB. They kept their promise, I kept mine. Had they removed the DRM earlier, I would have probably paid even more for it.

The list is long. Hopefully gog can help to make it shorter as time goes ;)

From the top of my head:

Torchlight 2, and anything else that relies on online-based activation.
Everything Valve, and all software that is Steam-only
Everything from Blizzard after Diablo2+LOD
Everything from Bethesda / ID after they went steam-only
Everything Ubisoft / Uplay-only
Everything EA / Origin-only

The Walking Dead is most definitely worth breaking the rule, though my policy for DRM games is less then $10, I usually wait a long time to buy games that I want to play. :)

I bought Vampire The Masquerade: Bloodlines from ImpulseDriven a few years ago, you have to download it/install it with their client, but as far as I can remember, that's the closest thing to DRM on it. Once it's installed you can play it without having launch/log in to their client.

Of Orcs and Men springs to mind. I read some horror stories about that game's DRM so I gave it a wide berth.

Thanks, I'm a bit weary of actually getting that one with Troika having a reputation of not actually finishing their games and all.

I could of gotten Dark Athena on Steam or Amazon with gift card credit many many times but havent. Been meaning to buy it on here one of these days, better before its de listed
It was on DotEmu for the longest time and so it was DRM free. Good game but yes quite glitchy

I'd recommend getting it but hey, it's possibly my all time favorite game. If you're worried about bugs (it's not as buggy as it's reputation would imply) there is a fan patch that fixed almost all of the bugs, and that fan patch gets updated a couple of times a year or so haha.

If it requires a connection to the internet for single player i wont touch it. If it will run without a connection thats OK.