What game did you refuse to buy because of its Copy protection
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Every single game with Uplay, ever. Any game that had GWFL, but this is after I bought DaS. That's because I can't play DaS with other people now, or with the save or load game feature because I let a hotmail address get fucked. Yep, can't log into an email address which has a live account attached to it so I can't fully access a game on steam. Fuck you too, Microsoft. I'd fix it with support, but can't fucking contact them without being able to access the email, which they claim I can still do. I can't.
So, nothing is coming to mind except maybe some ass creed games in the latest sale as a specific answer to your question but I have a kind of workflow or checklist I go through when I purchase a game and looking for U-play or GWFL is very early and very much a stopping point.
ps. Anno 1404 if that is the name. I was intrigued and never bought it because what, 3 installs? They took this drm away before this past sale but I'd long stopped caring enough to do the mouse clicks required to buy the game by this point.
So, nothing is coming to mind except maybe some ass creed games in the latest sale as a specific answer to your question but I have a kind of workflow or checklist I go through when I purchase a game and looking for U-play or GWFL is very early and very much a stopping point.
ps. Anno 1404 if that is the name. I was intrigued and never bought it because what, 3 installs? They took this drm away before this past sale but I'd long stopped caring enough to do the mouse clicks required to buy the game by this point.
It's a long shot but steam does allow you to add games that aren't steam games. The place to do it is the + ADD A GAME... in the bottom left corner. It's there to allow you to find a game easy and even use the steam overlay while playing, but if you put in the keys you got for FC 1 and 2 then steam may recognize them enough to let you install em, even though you don't have steam keys.Diaconu Cristian said:
Anything that used StarForce after The Fall: Last Days of Gaia and it's version of StarForce made my system unbootable. Took me a day or so to get it back into working order. The mafia like methods of the copy protection system's maker didn't help either. Among other games I only bought X3 Reunion after Egosoft had patched out StarForce, which they luckily did.
I'm not prone to conspiracy theory type shit but you will never convince me that Blizzard employees don't sell inactive WoW account info they can access to gold sellers. This is because I've only ever been "hacked" during a /wowquit, have been hacked during every (3) failed wowquit and have had friends who experienced the same pattern.Johnny Impact said:
I pretty much stopped buying mainstream PC games after having to deal with Half-Life 2's steam install which was, at that point, using dial-up so you can imagine how slow that was. That and seeing the draconian DRM that was being pushed at the time such as the limited instals in Spore really drove me away from using PC as a gaming medium. Like others have said I'm not going to be treated as a potential criminal by companies when I've purchased their product (which perversely leaves the pirated non-DRM copies as superior versions of the games) - I will find other games to play that don't treat me that way thanks.
Mass Effect 3 on PC (Got the PS3 trilogy when it released and ditched my PC versions)
Diablo 3 (again PS3 version came out and removed all the shit I didn't want) Turns out it lost something since 2 anyways.
Sim City
Most Uplay games - although I paid $3-5 for a couple later during a Steam sale. Checked out From Dust, Farcry 3/Blood Dragon, Anno 2070 and Tropico 4. All are worth $3-5 dollars even with the inconvenience of Uplay.
If I gave a crap about assassin's Creed I may have bought it for $3-5. But I am anti-always online DRM so if that is part of the package, I probably would have declined. I don't buy Assassin's Creed games due to them not being to my tastes somehow though. But their DRM is shit.
Diablo 3 (again PS3 version came out and removed all the shit I didn't want) Turns out it lost something since 2 anyways.
Sim City
Most Uplay games - although I paid $3-5 for a couple later during a Steam sale. Checked out From Dust, Farcry 3/Blood Dragon, Anno 2070 and Tropico 4. All are worth $3-5 dollars even with the inconvenience of Uplay.
If I gave a crap about assassin's Creed I may have bought it for $3-5. But I am anti-always online DRM so if that is part of the package, I probably would have declined. I don't buy Assassin's Creed games due to them not being to my tastes somehow though. But their DRM is shit.
The one that still kills me was Dead Space 2, which I technically did buy, finished, thoroughly enjoyed, then got bored with.
"Hey" I thought. "There's a multiplayer?". So I tried it out and loved it. I love horde mode style multiplayer games.
And then the trial ended and asked me to pay for f***ing in-game multiplayer season pass BS... EA. No EA. NOOOOOO EA! BAD!
Then I gave the game to my cousin, who didn't pay, and got angered for the same exact reason.
"Hey" I thought. "There's a multiplayer?". So I tried it out and loved it. I love horde mode style multiplayer games.
And then the trial ended and asked me to pay for f***ing in-game multiplayer season pass BS... EA. No EA. NOOOOOO EA! BAD!
Then I gave the game to my cousin, who didn't pay, and got angered for the same exact reason.
Everything from Ubisoft back when they had their always-online requirement (Splinter Cell games, From Dust, Driver: San Francisco, Assassin's Creed games, etc). Even now with Uplay it needs to be a great deal (<$10) before I'll even consider it because of all of the stories I've heard of Uplay problems.
Diablo 3. Seriously, WTF Blizzard?
Everything with GFWL. Thankfully this seems to be dying out.
I'll always buy on GOG.com rather than Steam if given fair opportunity. It's just comforting to be able to download a game, save a back up of the installer, and know you can play the game on any machine at any time you like, internet connection available or not.
Diablo 3. Seriously, WTF Blizzard?
Everything with GFWL. Thankfully this seems to be dying out.
I'll always buy on GOG.com rather than Steam if given fair opportunity. It's just comforting to be able to download a game, save a back up of the installer, and know you can play the game on any machine at any time you like, internet connection available or not.
PC Assassin's Creed II. Still baffles me on why there was DRM on a single-player game. If I remember correctly, the game itself ran a lot smoother without said DRM.
Naturally I said fuck that shit and didn't touch it ever again.
Naturally I said fuck that shit and didn't touch it ever again.
- Anything requiring Origin. Seriously, fuck Origin. Dodged the bullet that was Mass Effect 3 this way, so it's not all bad I guess.
- Anything requiring Uplay. Same deal as with Origin.
- Any single player game requiring constant online connection, e.g. Diablo 3.
- Any game with limited amount of installs, e.g. Spore
Basically, when I pay for a product I demand to be treated as a paying customer, not a dirty criminal.
- Anything requiring Uplay. Same deal as with Origin.
- Any single player game requiring constant online connection, e.g. Diablo 3.
- Any game with limited amount of installs, e.g. Spore
Basically, when I pay for a product I demand to be treated as a paying customer, not a dirty criminal.
Like so many others I find Origins distasteful due to its invasive properties and haven't bought an EA game since they mandated that their games needed to be verified through that system. Same for Ubisoft and Uplay. When I was younger and more foolish I gave GFWL a try and well, the rest is history I guess. At the time I had once used a Windows ME box and thought that Microsoft wouldn't drop the ball that badly again and was unpleasantly surprised.
Not exactly copy protecting but southpark from within Aus becasue of the " censorship " to our version
Actually that is the first thing I tried for every gameSecondPrize said:
It worked with Dark Souls 1 even though the steam version does not sell in my region and it was not a steam key ) (while it still needed the GFWL bs at least the game downloaded faster from steam than installing it from the DVD). But of course ubisoft has to be "special". Really other companies I don't mind since they never make stuff I care about - like Blizzard and the Diablo 3 single-permanent-connection-player.
For me pretty much any PC exclusive in the last 4/5 years. When they started making it compulsory to authenticate your hardcopy purchases with online services like Steam, Origin, UPlay etc I went back to consoles in a big way. I still clasify myself as an occasional PC gamer but only old games that I can still run, or games I can get from GOG.
Assassin's Creed and any game that requires me to install Origin.
Sadly, there are a lot of games that I really would have purchased and played had they not done that.
Sadly, there are a lot of games that I really would have purchased and played had they not done that.
I'm not sure an MMO being online is necessarily considered to be the result of DRM. That's actually more of a feature of the genre.SmugFrog said: