Speaking of DRM, I encountered the bad side when I recently picked up The Witcher Enhanced Edition earlier this week.
The game took about a half an hour to install on my PC, I go to play it and it crashes giving me a message to the effect I need to run it as administrator. I think "okie dokie," maybe I need to patch it. I download The Witcher 1.5 patch from CD Projekt's website. Going to install the patch and it crashes out on me.
I spend the next hour searching for an answer to find out that I got a bad version of the 1.5 patch. I spend the next hour downloading the patch from another site and 5 hours later after purchasing it I find myself playing The Witcher for the first time.
This DRM crapola is over the top. I had not noticed this ever since I stopped buying new PC games in 2005 and transitioned into WoW in early 2007. The two year difference was my last 2 years of college where I was playing old games in between getting laid and hanging out with friends getting shitfaced every night off of pot and alcohol.
Not only do I notice this in games, but I notice it in the ease of use from Windows XP to Windows 7. In Windows XP, you could learn how to find and manipulate files fairly easily. For example, the .sqlite files for Mozilla Firefox required a few steps to get to them and send them to the trashbin. In Windows 7, the ease of use is just atrocious. I have to run a search just to find the .sqlite files to delete.
I understand measures taken to prevent piracy and hacking, but gosh damn did the PC industry overreact and go so far as to make operating systems damn near unmanageable for those of us who became comfortable with Windows XP.
