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This is why I don't buy games with DRM other than steams default DRM (although I mostly play games on PS4 nowadays anyway) and why I generally tend to avoid Ubisoft games (amongst others). I might buy a second hand copy at some point, or if its very heavily discounted, but I'm certainly not pushed to get this game, especially with this news.

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> This is why I don't buy games with DRM other than steams

Valve did an amazing job at building their reputation (by doing things the right way.) Very few can do DRM without pissing off people.

Maybe you were not around but they did piss off a lot of people.

The switch from WON to Steam basically destoryed a huge part of the Counter Strike community (for example you couldn't play older versions anymore like 1.5)

Also Valve was one of the first company that required an online activation for a single player offline game (HL2). It was unheard back then.

Its terrible, DRM is one of the low points of steam. I got windows games I paid for I can't play anymore because of it.

Its garbage that reduces the value of games. It just increases Steam's profits.

They pissed me off by locking me out of my entire library for several weeks when their password changing mechanism was silently truncating passwords. Since then I haven't spent a single penny on Steam, or anything else with DRM.

I wait until big games like the Witcher series hit GoG.com. That means I miss out on a ton of AAA games, but I'm not a hardcore gamer so it's no big deal. Most of my time gaming right now is split between catching up on late 2000s titles like the Crysis and Saint's Row series, and on open world games like Rust.

I love GoG! But as seer said, The Witcher is a special case, since GoG is owned by the same people. Still some fantastic games there though, just not the latest-and-greatest.

(I also have a lot of Humble Bundle games)

The witcher is an exception though, as CDProject red are the creaters of both gog and the series, thus it was available from day 1 :)

Wow, I wasn't aware of that.

What cemented GoG for me was two events: One, they got the entire classic Thief series (my all time favorite game series which won't install on modern Windows from my game discs) and two, when a few games on Steam that I thought I owned were pulled or otherwise tampered with; something I paid for was suddenly gone or altered with no recourse. I still have my Steam account and I do play games on it, but going forward all of my game budget goes to GoG and thrift store finds.

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