D - DRM is a waste of time and money.

Just stop, please.

I love games. I love them so much that I actually buy them. After I buy them I get stuck dealing with annoying DRM that installs a rootkit or that refuses to allow me to play the game when I reinstall my OS because I have activated it too many times in a certain period of time... or ever.

WHAT?!

Since when does a game company have the right to tell me that a game that I PAID FOR cannot be played because I updated my PC to play it better or lost a drive suddenly. How retarded is that? How fucking stupid do they really think consumers of PC games are? Obviously, pretty fucking stupid, because we eat this shit up. Some of the most popular games have been riddled with issues caused by DRM. BioShock is my favorite example, because it crushed me.

I got BioShock, pre-order, from Direct2Drive. I downloaded it, activated it, then had several issues with the game, as a result of the DRM rootkit and then the poor performance, partially because of the DRM. So... I do a lot of things and eventually format. Well, turns out that I used up all of my activations. So after I uninstall it and then try later to install it (when a patch finally comes out to fix a lot of the issues in the game) I can't. I had used up my activations and now I have to fill out what seems like an application just to be able to play my game. The whole time I know I can get online, find a torrent and just play the damned game. But NOOOOOO! I paid for the game and I go through the proper channels to get it sorted out. A few days later I get an email telling me that they "will allow me" to play the game again. OH, how sweet of them to let me play the game I bought.

What a shitty experience. That isn't the only game. There has been DRM that was cracked when the game was in beta, not to mention all of the stuff they are trying to stuff into music and videos now. Give it a rest. No one wants that stuff. If I pay a dollar for a SONG, I want the song. I used to pay 12 bucks for a CD, now it's 20 for the same CD and the music isn't any better on it. We are over the old way and have moved on to something else. You can than Napster for infecting a whole new generation of music-listeners. They used to just record stuff on tape, now we just download it off the internet.

No amount of DRM is going to stop someone who wants to steal. All it is doing is harming those who actually paid for you product. Please, stop it. If you want people to buy your product, make one that is worthy of the 50 dollar price tag, or bring it down to 20 bucks or so. If MoH was 30 bucks right now, I'd buy it. I really want to play it, but I refuse to pay 60 bucks for a game that will be dead in a year. It's stupid.

Seriously, fucking stop it.