steam games can get cracked but they coz problems sometimes ai disabled graphic bugs

It'll be cracked very quickly.

Stupid and sad. This will force a lot of people into getting the pirated version instead.

Seriously, the hardcore gamer knows this thing and frustration it brings and might skip it. The casual gamer (The Sims buyer) will have serious problems running the game and may forget it.

I don't quite get the idea to make such damn irritating and life-poisoning protection, it'll be broken in a week. Throwing cash into all this stuff to protect their properies form losses.
Maybe I don't understand all this idea but for me it's like f*cking for virginity.

I remember some anecdote(more like urban legend but still funny and obciously fake):
During the race to the stars there was major problem, pens didn't want to write in zero gravity. NASA pumped a lot of cash into special pen which would achieve this feat. After months of research they finally made it.
What did the Russians do all this time? Used pencil.

Stop throwing cash for useless and damn irritating protection! Give all this money to charity organizations(or me)! Stop annoying customers! Earth for potatoes!

and this the best they can come up with to save it? This is only slightly better than the music industry deciding to form RIAA so they can sue their customer base. If they really wanted to get a good measure of the piracy problem GTA IV would have been released on the PC as well as the Xbox and PS3. I keep hearing developers complain about downloads but like the music and movie industries they can't point to any reliable numbers.

My uncle, an avid gamer from the day games began has no internet connection. I bought him HL2 for Christmas last year and he was unable to play it at all due to the need for internet validation. Stupid me for not reading the box but heck, I have never bought him a game that needed that and I have bought him quite a few. After that, he was so turned off of gaming that he bought two consoles and has not touched his PC since. Outside of the fact that his graphics card was about a year out of date, he said it was more the pet peeve of the DRM issues lately and has gone console gamer since.

there wouldn't be online periodic validation if so many people didn't pirate games. You work hard for your money and people spit on you for making a good game. Way to go PC gaming. I wonder why so many companies opt to release games on consoles instead.

Whats funny is I was actually gonna buy mass effect for PC now ill just download it. Who knows what this software purges on your pc.

Tell me again how the multiplatform strategy was supposed to fix everything. Look at your results and compare them to Nintendo, which keeps thriving with exclusives. Your loyal fans are gone. And let’s not forget the pile of IPs you purchased only to let them rot.

The worst thing is this is down from last years numbers/expectations which was down from the previous years numbers/expectations. You think about how long “down” has been a consistent part of the communication and you realize those subscriptions are what’s holding that boat together. The price cut of gamespass is still a price raise in a string of price raises. They are trying to use players to offset the missing revenue. Now call of duty is out of gamespass, which is literally WHY they bought the company. To draw people to the subscription. They realized they missed a boatload of money and that wasn’t sustainable. Now you pay for it like you would have if they never bought the company… so why buy the company? Mind you those billions still need to be paid back. Yeah it gives you a chance to say we make the biggest FPS… but the internal conversations must be brutal at high level on topics that really matter. Like revenue. Profitability. And ROI for the shopping spree.

Is this like the 10th quarter in a row they're down 33% on hardware how is that even mathematically possible. You would think their mediocrity would Plateau