Poll: Does DRM ever actually affect your purchase?

[JET1971]

I wont ever buy another Ubisoft game until they stop with the draconian DRM. and now EA is forcing Origin for games looks like I wont be buying from them either until they make it optional. I have steam so using Origin would be redundant and just another program eating system resources.

I dont mind having to register the game during install but anything after that it just gets annoying and ubisoft owes me for FC2.

 

[archvile93]

Some DRM I can tolerate, but I draw the line at always on and GFWL. I don't care how flawless a game is, it's not worth the money if it either takes ten hours to et it working or I'll lose it at the drop of a hat.

 

[Worgen]

I hate restrictive drm, especially install limits, I didn't buy a game to be renting it, I will never buy a game with any kind of drm like that unless its super cheap, like under $5 and even then it has to be something I really want. I don't really mind steam, right now it is a pretty good drm option but I think the real problem will be when Gabe Newell retires.

 

[babinro]

Interesting Poll results.

50 percent of gamers are not purchasing due to DRM regardless of game quality. I wouldn't think a process that takes about 2 minutes would cost so many sales.

It would be interesting to know how many of that group pirate the game or if they hold true to their boycott of the product even when it can be purchased for say $5 on a Steam sale.

 

[ultimateownage]

EA and Ubisoft have both turned me off their games. Though buying and not buying games are influenced more by the overall attitude of the company. I dislike THQ and Activision, too.

 

[Klonoa Prower]

I will not buy ME3... or anything that requires the use of Origin. I don't care if the game turns out to be god's gift to man, I'm not going to download spyware.

 

[Piorn]

I bought Assassin's Creed Brotherhood for PS3 because of the terrible DRM on AC2(PC).

 

[MammothBlade]

Yes, definitely. I won't touch any game which uses Origin or otherwise punishes you for buying the game legally. I might get the same game for PS3 which isn't usually affected by stringent DRM, but the chance I'll let it anywhere near my PC is an absolute ZERO.

 

[Imperioratorex Caprae]

I find it funny that people ***** constantly about "always online" DRM but allow themselves to suspend their "hate" when it comes to Steam. Seriously thats sad.

 

[Assassin Xaero]

I prefer to have games on Steam.
Origin I will avoid, but will get if I need to (doubt it though).
I refused to support any game with always-on DRM. Which is why I'm not sad at all about STALKER 2.

 

[kasperbbs]

No, if a DRM annoys me i can always remove it, didn't need to do that lately, but i keep the tools to do it in some cases where i couldnt play my games if my internet connection went down.

 

[Daniel Janhagen]

Somewhere between 1 and 2. If I wasn't sure if I was getting the game in the first place, then any DRM at all is going to count against it. If it's a game I really really wanted to play, then it will only matter if it's really fucked up, such as always-on, limited install, anything that says Ubisoft on it, that kind of thing.

 

[idarkphoenixi]

Someones going to need to explain this to me in captain dummy talk and tell me why this "DRM" thing is so horrible. I see threads like this all the time and it usually ends up in a total uproar of violent posts. "I HATE DRM!!" "I won't buy this game because it has DRM"

It's my primitive understanding that DRM is something like needing STEAM to install Team Fortress 2. okay, kind of inconvenient but if I didn't need to do the same for Empire: Total War I never would have downloaded STEAM at all, which would have been awful because now it's currently one of my favourite programs.


Side Note: A cookie to whoever spots my popular Sci-Fi reference

 

[Stormz]

Yes it does. I'm noting buying Diablo 3 because of it's forced online. I refuse to be treated like I'm a criminal.

 

[mjc0961]

Yep. I didn't get Red Alert 3 on PC until years later when it was on Steam with that SecuROM bullshit removed. Anything with an always online requirement can go get bent after C&C4 (everyone keeps saying "I don't care because I'm always online anyway". wake the hell up and realize that the problem is the COMPANY not keeping the servers on all the time, so half the time I wanted to play the fucking game, I couldn't because their server was a piece of shit). Anything that requires Origin can get bent. I will not bend over backwards and put up with all this bullshit just to try and prove I own a game that I paid for.

I also won't pirate it though. Pirates are the reason we have this crap, and all those people who say "Screw it, I'm going to pirate the game and play without DRM", you're just as shitty as EA, Ubisoft, and others for helping make this happen. Thanks for ruining a lot of games due to your own greed.

I find it funny that people ***** constantly about "always online" DRM but allow themselves to suspend their "hate" when it comes to Steam. Seriously thats sad.

Steam doesn't require you to always be online, so how is that sad? If Steam required that, I wouldn't use it. The only thing sad here is that you're making stuff up to try and insult people.

 

[Naeo]

Depends on the extent/sort of DRM. Online passes, while annoyinger than fuck, are ultimately just that to me: annoying. So they don't dissuade me. But if I have to use Origin to play it, I'm not going to buy the game no matter what. Mostly because of the "we get to look around and monitor your computer for whatever" clause rather than any DRM thing.

In general, though, no, DRM does not affect my purchasing habits that much.

 

[JeanLuc761]

I don't buy games from Ubisoft anymore, so yes, DRM can affect my purchase decision.

 

[Baked potato]

depends on the DRM but thats why i havent bought starcraft 2. i dont buy 60 dollor games on steam for the same reason, if a game sucks or i just dont like it i should be able to recoup my money by selling it.

 

[AstylahAthrys]

Yep. I will no longer buy any Ubisoft games or EA games due to their DRM, which is a shame, because I was interested in going back and playing ACII and getting ME3 for the PC. Now I absolutely will not due to DRM.

 

[thahat]

yep. i refuse yo buy ubisoft crap, cause i dont mind about drm so much as ANOYING INSTALLING CRAP I DONT WANT DRM ( im looking at you ubi, if you use steam STICK WITH STEAM ALREADY DONT ADD OTHER CRAP )