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

[Rattler5150]

is there any game that you refused to buy because its copy protection was excessive?
Some game you didnt want to bother with because of DRM of some sort?

 

[sageoftruth]

Does Uplay count? I if I cannot play Far Cry 4 without using Uplay, then I'm passing on that game.

 

[Ima Lemming]

I never bought Dark Void Zero on Steam because I thought Capcom had some real nerve slapping SecuROM on a friggin' five dollar game.

Captcha: Join the millions. The millions who what, didn't buy games because of their DRM? Or those who pirated them? No thanks, I have my principles.

 

[Rattler5150]

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

 

[The Madman]

I haven't bought a single Ubisoft game since Uplay became a thing and I never will. I refuse to take part in yet more of that shit, which is too bad because I wish I could play the new Heroes, Settlers, and Rayman games but I just don't want yet more publisher bloatware filling up my computer.

Maybe if they ever come out on GOG I'll pick them up. Rayman Origins did, though not the newer Rayman game.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

I've kept myself from buying Dark Souls on PC because I don't want to deal with the bullshit that is GFWL. Thankfully that's dead now, and From Software is working on making Dark Souls function with steam.

 

[Ronald Nand]

I've kept myself from buying Dark Souls on PC because I don't want to deal with the bullshit that is GFWL. Thankfully that's dead now, and From Software is working on making Dark Souls function with steam.

Was this a recent change I played the game about half a year ago and I had to log into GFWL to play.

 

[Dirty Hipsters]

I've kept myself from buying Dark Souls on PC because I don't want to deal with the bullshit that is GFWL. Thankfully that's dead now, and From Software is working on making Dark Souls function with steam.

Was this a recent change I played the game about half a year ago and I had to log into GFWL to play.

It hasn't happened yet, From Software is in the process of patching it out right now since Games for Windows Live is finally going under.

 

[StriderShinryu]

Nope, I can't say there's been a game I otherwise wanted to buy but didn't because of it's affiliated DRM.

 

[Zhukov]

Assassin's Creed 2.

Not a fan of always-online.

As it happened, my then housemate bought it for his Xbox and I just played his version.

Also Diablo 3, but I was at best on the fence about that game to begin with.

 

[Michel Henzel]

I stopt buying any game with online DRM on day 1 and always wait for reports on connection issues from people. The reason being is that I got horribly burned on The Settlers 7 when that came out. Many many people reported being unable to even start the game cause they could not connect to Ubisofts servers, and I was one of those people.

This reportedly went on for several weeks, though after a week I simply had enough and went to return the game. Though being a PC game the story refused to refund it, but seeing I purposefully picked a busy day and there where a lot of people there I essentially got them to refund me anyway. Albeit reluctantly. Make enough of a fuss and they are more then willing to get rid of you for 50 euro's.

If a company demands I be always online if I want to play I thinks it's more then fair that I can expect their servers to bloody work.

 

[Johnny Impact]

Would have refused BioShock if I had known SecuROM came with it. It caused so many problems, there were days my PC would barely operate because of that piece of shit.

Not buying another Blizzard product. Their copy protection fails in the worst way: they don't protect my copy, i.e. my account credentials. I had my Blizzard account stolen three times, twice when it didn't even have WoW on it. This does not happen with Steam, Origin, GOG, or any other service. Not paying for something that's gonna be swiped in a month.

 

[JohnnyDelRay]

- Assassins Creed 2
- Spore
- Sim City (latest one)
- Diablo 3
- Battlefield 3

Yup, basically any always-on (esp when I'm only interested in the single-player aspect), and rootkitted, or otherwise non-sensical bullshit I will stay away from. BF3 though one could argue that it's real ambition is it's multiplayer, so whatever. I would then say it's because I wasn't interested enough, but I actually built my current computer specs to be able to handle it when it came out, until I heard the news about it's DRM. Well, fucking EA and Ubisoft what do you expect.

 

[Something Amyss]

I haven't bought any game on PC where uPlay is required, or any game that requires you to be always online unless it's specifically an online multiplayer only game.

DRM hasn't stopped me from buying some of the worst offenders, though, as I had little interest in the first place.

 

[Fulbert]

Most of the latest AAA-titles. With abusive DRM schemes, crappy PC ports, and dozens of accounts to set up for every new game I basically gave up on AAA-gaming. That's just too much hassle for my money.

 

[Vendor-Lazarus]

Lots and lots of games.
The earliest ones were those that got a bad rep because of securom,starforce, etc.
Nowadays It's hard to find any game to buy at all because of Online Activation and Always Online, not to mention discounting additional DRM.
(not even going into micro-transactions,day one DLC, quicktime events, weird and limited camera views, "slowtime events", etc.)

So, basically, anything on a store platform (steam,origin,uplay) and more.

 

[loa]

Every single retail game since spore.
If I have to jump through hoops, why did I buy the box?

 

[The_Great_Galendo]

Buy games with copy protection? Heck, on occasion I've turned down free games because of it. I considered getting Dragon Age and SimCity 2000 for free through Origin, but decided not to because it's yet another software download doing who-knows-what to my computer. I put up with Steam, albeit somewhat reluctantly (if something's the same price on GOG or humblebundle, I go there instead), but most everything else can take its copy protection and shove it.

 

[Ronald Nand]

I've kept myself from buying Dark Souls on PC because I don't want to deal with the bullshit that is GFWL. Thankfully that's dead now, and From Software is working on making Dark Souls function with steam.

Was this a recent change I played the game about half a year ago and I had to log into GFWL to play.

It hasn't happened yet, From Software is in the process of patching it out right now since Games for Windows Live is finally going under.

Sounds good, I might try and get into the game again when they get rid of it.

 

[Diaconu Cristian]

My little story:
played a lot of games and usually I don't mind copy protection.
I'm a big fan of steam, own about 42 steam games but I also like to have the box if I can (I know it's silly but I just like to have them).
So a few months ago I bought 4 games: 3 of which were on steam and the last one was the "far cry the wild expedition" bundle (far cry 1,2,3 and BD). Never played Blood Dragon and it was a cheap bundle so I said I should give it a try.
I did not pay attention to the box (thought it was steam like the other 3 games). Turns out Far Cry 3 and Blood Dragon can be registered, played and even downloaded from uplay which is OK I guess (though I prefer using a single service instead of 2) BUT Far Cry 1 and 2 CANNOT be registered.
Furthermore the version of Far Cry 1 is not the latest so I cannot play it on Windows 7... like really?! This thing was released when Windows 8 was already here and they couldn't put the latest patch on the disk?!
Never mind DRM, I cannot even register the damn game... uplay does not recognize the keys for FC1 and 2 and instead I have to register with some stupid "register" utility that tells me I'm not connected to the internet?! What?!
Searched some forums and apparently it wants me to forward some specific ports? And these are found in a post from 2005?
I mean holy coconuts if I ever buy a game using any other service than Steam or GOG. Say what you want about steam... sure sometimes you still need an additional account or and additional service running beside it but if you buy something on it, it will bloody work... (can't speak much about indie games though)
Also Dark Souls 2 Steam vs Dark Souls 1 GFWL... no contest. I just hope they finish the migration faster since I'm taking a 3 week holiday