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Galaki said:
shio said:
mchaza said:

so what does this do?. I dont get why Steam games have DRM when Steam it self is an DRM like i got batman arkum for 7.50 steam sale and its an console port but for some strange reason demanded an product code and an whole heap of pointless DRM things. 

because big publishers believe that having extra DRM benefits them, which is complete bullshit.

In short, DRM works similar to rootkit that install itself at protected level and making it nearly impossible to remove where you mostly have to reintall your OS from scratch to really clear it out of your computer.

Aside from it doing stuff behind your back depending on what they make the DRM do, it also open up to exploit for hackers to easily take over your computer.

But the most damning thing is probably that it causes some side effects to your computer causing some weird incompatibility problem and just outright making something else not work that has absolutely nothing to do with the "original intent" of the DRM. (quoted loosely since we'll never know if its original intent was actually just to stop you from using pirated copy)

And to follow up on the quoted, pirated version is completely free of DRM, which makes you think, the original intent was just a lie. We know it does not stop pirates.

To sum it all up, DRM left a bad taste over the last decades or two where they break many people's system where the more cricital problem was that their Windows just refused to boot at all. I had my share of trouble with DVD burner just doesn't burn or do some funny shit until the computer is formatted.

That sounds pretty harmful. How could they risk it to include it in DA2?