As a person who loves gaming, and as a developer (not games tho), I relate with your pain. But while I support games I enjoy, I still find it hard to justify drm as a consumer. I don’t condone piracy, but it’s not the only evil hurting gamers. On the other end of it you have greedy publishers doling out crap…

Most sales happen through preorder exclusives these days, hardly any dev bets on post release figures, making the point of drm moot. And drm punishes legitimate consumers. The only party in favor of it is the big publishers who employ every trick of the trade to penalize genuine buyers, be it broken game releases or…