| NJ5 said: When I buy a game, I expect to be able to resell it and/or install it as many times as I want to without having to call an expensive number. To make it even worse, there's the fact that these stupid protections don't protect anything. The game has been cracked from day one. All it does is annoy their paying customers. So let me put the question in another way: What's there NOT to hate about Spore's DRM?
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This pretty much sums it up for me. DRM increases costs for the publisher, reduces value to the consumer, and yields no gains for either party.
There are techniques for de facto DRM which actually work by providing additional value to the consumer. Steam and consoles are the best examples of this. Install limits and rootkits are bad DRM, and deserve all the marketplace punishment they get. It's a major reason why I'm moving away from PC gaming.
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