I happily purchased Ego Draconis the day it came out on Steam but outright refuse to buy DKS entirely due to the DRM and install limits. It is 100% ridiculous to have redundant double DRM that does nothing to protect the game from piracy, and there is no argument anyone can make to change my opinion on that.

I change hardware and reformat a lot. I also like to keep my desktop, laptop, and gaming-capable HTPC synced when it comes to games. Steam makes this extremely easy via copying the steamapps folder as needed. 3rd party activation based DRM like SecuROM immediately kills that ability. I'm sorry, but I'm not going to manually uninstall your game or try to remember to deactivate it each time I change a piece of hardware in fear of losing an activation on two different PCs that often have hardware swapped between them. I'm definitely not going to do that when reformatting. Instead, I'm simply not going to buy your game until the additional DRM has been patched out or, if that never happens, not buy it at all.

Throw in my past bad experiences with SecuROM, and I fully understand why past posters have been slightly insulting towards those defending it. Some of the problems I've had in the past before simply banning it from my system altogether: retail discs not being acknowledged as legit (FEAR), activations not occurring properly (BioShock), legitimate (sometimes paid!) software being disabled (Process Explorer/Alcohol 120% - both of which can be used for evil, but that doesn't invalidate their legit uses or make it okay for another piece of software to disable them without permission), and plain old crashing and poor performance (Mass Effect retail compared to the Steam version, Titan's Quest as well).

Originally Posted by Lar_q
 
To answer your question, In the past we always removed the DRM from our games after a certain amount of time and this will be no different here.


Can we get an idea of when this would happen? Months from now? A year? YEARS from now? I'd like to know when I might be able to purchase your game without getting a poorer, more inconvenient experience than someone that decides to pirate it.