Poll: Does DRM ever actually affect your purchase?

[Emergent System]

I'm at the point where I'm seriously considering deliberately pirating Ubisoft games out of spite just because of the DRM. When I sit down to play my expensive game and it tells me I'm not allowed to because Ubisoft's online service is down, that actually pisses me off.

There's not even any incentive for me to buy the games rather than pirate them. Pirating them makes them *easier to use* most of the time, doesn't do annoying shit like limit you to a number of installs, and it's *free*. As of right now, only my frankly amazing (*pats self on back*) moral convictions and self-restraint make me buy them rather than take the easier, cheaper, more rational route...

 

[Spy_Guy]

Origin can rot.

...and the only Always-On game I got was Silent Hunter 5 (which as a submarine game is unattainable elsewhere).

Apart from that, exception, if the DRM is being bothersome, then I won't get a game.

I also noticed I won't do that with shady DLC either.
See Saint's Row III for an example (three throwaway DLCs launched before the game? Oh you, Volition and THQ)

 

[Aprilgold]

Steam is the DRM equal of a Console. You NEED a console to play the game, thats DRM there.

Yes, I won't buy a game with a Onilne pass no matter what it is to me. I shouldn't need to type in a 90 digit code and wait several hours for it to verify.

It depends on how BAD the DRM is, if its just that I need Steam, I'm OK with it. If its a online pass or one that blocks of 50% of the game then I won't.

It's one of the main reasons I'm not a PC gamer.

You do realize that your DRM is worse then ours, yours is a 200$ console, ours is a free downloadable game auto-installer that keeps accounts safe and across the webs. Also, we don't have any actual DRM that isn't broke in a week. Infact, all PC games now can be bought over the interenet are legal copies. We have a different DRM that is supposed to fight piracy which doesn't work.

I'd also like to point out that if your box there gets broken by some mechanical failure, its usually cheaper to buy a new one. Not counting that we don't have the code entering online passes, or ones that cut off a part of the game for DRM.

Now, tell me again, your proud to hate on PC's yet can't see past your own console?

By your own bizarre logic, PCs themselves are also a form of DRM, because you need them to play PC games. Which, by the way, are much more expensive than consoles.

If you already own a pc, even a old one, you can make it to the specs of a console for less.

Consoles are DRM since you need that specific thing to play the game, while PC's are a DRM for PC specific things. Its not backwards, its true. I need Steam or Origin or Direct To Buy to play games on my PC. Consoles are the = of steam, since you need a console to play a game as much as you need Steam to play a game. Consoles just are the 'classic' way of playing a game, that doesn't stop them from being DRM.

 

[targren]

Yep.

Most recently: Mass Effect 2, Diablo III. Possibly Torchlight II, depending on if/what DRM gets used.

Also, just about every PSP game I've wanted in the past 4 years, Metroid Prime Trilogy, and the new Zelda: By requiring updates to the system firmware to play games that have nothing to do with the firmware version, just to troll CFW/homebrew users, they're trying to control how I use my own purchases. That's DRM.

I have literally hundreds of games from just the past three generations (not to mention all my old NES/SNES/MD games). I've got enough games to hold me off that I don't have to submit to the corporate bullying tactics to get my gaming fix.

 

[Zenkem]

Absolutely. DRM:s have been catastrophic from the start, and now they have gone so far that we MUST stop buying them. I don't want to be a strikebreakear.

With EA games its easy, Origin is horrible and their games suck. Saints Row would be interesting, but you must resist or they'll keep pushing the DRM:s further and further.

 

[The Hero Killer]

No, I still dont exactly know what it even is.