Good DRM vs Bad DRM

[Mnementh]

Pemalite said:

Galaki said:
Both good and bad DRM are bad DRM.

Not true.

Good DRM is where it can make a consumers life easier and more convenient.
Case in point Steam places your entire games collection in the one place on any Windows/Linux/MacOSX device.
Prior to that you had to handle CD Key's, throw discs into the system, manually patch your games... Steam Eliminated all of that.
That's on top of other standardised features Steam brought to the party, plus who can hate on Steam Sales time?

Basically if the consoles DRM schemes don't: Make playing games easier, cheaper and more convenient then it's essentially bad DRM.

I would say it is bad DRM and worse DRM. So I agree with Galaki, although he made that comment as a joke.

You said good DRM is making the consumers life easier. No DRM ever makes the life of the consumer easier. Without DRM you can always achieve the same. You bring Steam as an example and ignore, that CD-keys are also DRM. Without DRM you always can achieve the most convenience.

Your last sentence puts the nail in the coffin: as no DRM makes things easier only more complicated (things like cloud-saves or similar may be bundled with DRM, but can be made also without it), no DRM makes games easier, because the development of the DRM must be paid on top of the development of the game and no DRM makes things more convenient. Based on your definition every DRM is bad DRM.