The thing is, DRM never works. The only thing it does is inconvenience genuine customers, slapping restriction after restriction onto a user whilst the pirates have the game cracked within hours of release with no restriction or DRM at all. Tell me, how is that fair?

The publishers that enforce these methods surely know this, so why are genuine paying customers still forced to jump through hoops and be treated like criminals? Firstly it's to keep the clueless shareholders happy, and secondly to further kill the used games market. Implementing new forms of DRM isn't cheap either, costing millions of dollars which could be better spent developing higher quality games.

I don't think the PC gaming community brings these measures upon themselves, of course there will be a fair few people who will pirate just for the sake of it, but I'm sure theres also a lot of people who would be fine purchasing the game legally, if it wasn't for these draconian means being implemented.

Piracy is also used as a scapegoat when a PC game sells poorly, it's much easier for the publisher or developer to point fingers at piracy instead of blaming the actual game itself. Ubisoft is a prime example of this, seeming as over the past few years the quality of their PC titles has been extremely poor, with PC gamers often getting terrible ports 6 months after the console release, hardly enticing as it is without sticking some nasty DRM on it as well.

DRM only makes piracy worse, not only do you get the people who already just pirate games because they can, but now once paying customers are being forced to as well just so they can play the game they may have paid for.

"Only 1 out of every 10 copies of Crysis was legally purchased."

Have you got a link backing that up? I've heard something similar before and I highly doubt it's at all accurate. Crysis sold 2m units relatively quickly after release, and has probably continued to sell well ever since, so saying that for every 1 sold there were 9 others pirated just sounds unbelievable.

Once publishers get it into their heads that all forms of DRM do not work, then I will be a PC gamer. I do not want to have to have a constant net connect, be connected to a network to play a game, or have a limited number of installs.

DRM must become a thing of the past.

I'm not inciting piracy, but look BlackOps. Most pirated game of 2010 and engrossed millions. For me piracy is just when you copy an original game and sell for your own profit. I can't say i never downloaded any pirate game,but piracy can't destroy the sells of a game. But yet piracy is a bad thing. I don't know in the US, but here in Brazil piracy is a normal thing. Sad

Are you serious bro with this comment?

1. Mod support
2. Steam > XBL

why would pc frickin' want XBL ?? They've got the same if not better matchmaking services , without the hassle of being forced to p2p . They can simply used dedicated servers , and should the need arise , wich never happens , go p2p too