Damn DRM. Bought Batman Arkham City and Arkham Asylum on steam with all DLCs for $20 both, turns out I can activate it only on 5 PCs ever. Oh, and only 10 times per PC.
My problem with DRM and activations type stuff is not what they allow, but when it Breaks. The systems they design are attempting to keep from being hacked and adjusted and messed with, that means if any single aspect of the protection does not work as planned, the whole use of the data is disabled.
The PC I installed the game to test it on is my girlfriend's laptop, because mine is ancient. Let's say I want to play this game 10 years from now. So in 10 years I can only own 4 PCs, including laptop, desktop, media center, and I can only format each 10 times? =/
They are always nice to paying customers though, so when they know that I paid, every one of them has provided me a way to run again. After 4Frilling hours on hold ... etc etc
A weird one with ms, i had disabled (by sheer accident) one aspect of thier protections, and a hour or so on the phone , suddenly they gave me some kinda backdoor different style of activation (still long coded bs) and it was back again.
Indie Humble Bundle was what converted me into a game paying customer. Indie games, with freedom to developers to experiment, without DRM, and cheap? Instant love.
I often had to phone in activation with XP, because of how many times it failed (hash changed). as xp became obsolete, they just re-activate it via computer without asking anymore. which i hope means i can keep it going for more years.
