What game did you refuse to buy because of its Copy protection

[Pr0]

I haven't refused to buy any games due to DRM because I can honestly say DRM has never caused me any issues whatsoever.

Steam's been fine for me for as long as I've ever used it, it had something of a rocky lift off at the beginning but these days I barely notice its there til I need it and it always delivers. Some people consider Steam DRM, I consider it the best way to give Gamestop the finger for selling all its shelf space to console companies and attempting to manufacture the argument that "PC Gaming was dead" to sell more consoles.

Overall Steam as a DRM is a DRM I am more than willing to accept when the "non-DRM" based copies of the very same game are literally shuffled off into a back shelf behind CONSOLE GAMING ACCESSORIES, and the retailers using this stocking tactic spent a large chunk of their time between 2005 and now trying to manufacture the illusion of a failing PC gaming industry for their own profit.

So you can be very sure I happily paid for every game I ever bought on Steam. I never once had a hardware failure due to "DRM", I never gave a fuck about Secure-ROM cause it never affected me, and theres not a rootkit on the planet that can survive a drive swap so...DRM..just don't give a fuck. If a company wants to use DRM, they're welcome to waste the money on it...if a company doesn't use DRM..good for them.

Overall I've always found DRM kerfuffles to be far more hot wind and sophistry than any true and legitimate concern.

 

[Morghuk]

Diablo 3, I refuse to buy it, Im being treated like a criminal because I have the audacity of playing a game on a pc.
I loved Diablo 1 and 2,, I played D2 dozens of times from beginning to end, mostly with the barbarian and the necromancer. but I refuse to play D3 until I can get a drm free version and an apology

Just a point here...
You do realise that every game of D3 you play is run on a battle.net server?
unlike the earlier ones it's not a choice between playing on battle.net and playing locally.

Calling that DRM is like saying Everquest, LoL or Guild wars has DRM because you need to be online.

now, SimCity, Asscreed, and many EA titles that require you to be online on a completely single player game... THAT is DRM.

 

[Silverbane7]

anything that requires me to install origin, prety much is a DO NOT WANT! for me. so no sims 4 (unless they allow it onto the consoles, which is where any sims games from now on will live for me. and i will make sure they are 2nds hand too, so the store gets the money not EA)

i was burned by sims2 years ago so have allways hated allways online (unless its for MMORPG games, in which case it does make sence then) and SecuR0M and its ilk.
the fact that, as a purchasing PAYING customer, i had to do naughty things (cracked game exe) to play my legit bought game safely (and had to keep the disks far away from my dvd drive to KEEP the sux off my machines, becasue every time a sims2 disk ran, it would reinstall teh sux) burned my bacon so badly.
it killed 2 mainboards (north and south bridges burned out) overworked 3 graphics cards and murdered a hard drive in its years while i wrestled with it.

now, i have it storted thankfully.
with sims2, you install it all, install the cracked no disk .exe and run the SecuR0M remover and then kill the groups.cashe file and you are good to go (mostly lol)
sims3 is harder becasue you cant avoid the Origin unless (like me lol) you have the old original DvD relase. when you have that, the game asks you if you want to install the EADM (old pre origin download manager) and you say NO. then when it keeps asking (for newer eps and packs) you also say no to Origin. then you slap the NoCD mod into your package folder and you are good to go...so long as you ignore the Launcher and start your game with the .exe file too that is lol

and my Sims PC is totally offline, so it has no connection to call home and tell on me.

its nice that some people never had any issues with DRM, but a lot of us had such bad issues, and i guess this is the issue.
if they didnt act like everyone was a pirate (or potential one) and slip this stuff into your game, we wouldnt end up acting like them to make our BOUGHT LEGIT games work in the first place.
i bought every single sims 1 and sims 2 game legit. all the stuff packs all the expansions. and yet, i have to turn to a cracked executable to get my paid for game to work.
*sigh* thats MY (personal) issue with DRM. we arent pirates. *they* dont have to deal with the DRM, becasue its removed from their version. as a PAYING customer, i shouldnt *have* to do these things to use my PAID copy to run without destroying my computer. i (and many like me) cannot afford to replace my PC every 6months to a year, just becasue the company thinks its okay to infect my machine with stuff, to supposedly protect their bottom line.

so now, if something is available via console (like diablo3, where i can play 1 player offline alone if i want to) i prefer to get that if i want it that badly. or stick to the older versions.
or grab it via GoG

 

[kasperbbs]

My internet randomly died for the second time today while i was attempting to post on the escapist, thats why i didn't buy Diablo 3, having to be constantly online for a sinle player game is a joke.