It seems that they are starting to see the truth, these DRMs are pure nonsense. If you buy every game that evokes your interest, you’ll have to work only to buy games. On the other hand, much of the games that even the main games publishers release every year are, at least, lame. The P2P shop is the better way to try games and see if they worth your money or even if they match your taste. And that’s it, period. If I like the game, online or not, I buy it even if I’ll not play it again and recommend it to my friends (yes, more games sold, cause like every every other known game addicted I’m the person who a lot of people asks If they should or not buy a game), if I don’t, just uninstall it and no one was harmed. They can talk about demos, but everybody knows that they aren’t (when they work, most of all are unplayable) exactly what the real game will be. A good demo is a completely playable game. A funny thing in all this protection stuff is that cracked games are normally more stable than non cracked games. This SECUROM crap crashes rigs more than virus and is very easy to crack. I don’t know if the game publishers pays for include that in their games, but if they are doing this, they are suckers that are being cheated.
On the other hand, this stop people from selling used games or just lend or give it to a friend stuff is, in my humble opinion, pure knavery and exaggerated greediness from the game publishers, happy imitators of MS model.
So, if they really want to sell games, they must start producing better games, stop including protections (serials are enough), stop using piracy as justification for their own incompetence and hush to show results (like the owners or share owners believe in that excuses…), and most of all start to believe, that us gamers, are really interested that they continue to produce games and when we like a game, most of us buy it.
To finish this yadda yadda, not releasing Gears of War 2 for PC was one of the stupidest things I saw in all my 54 years of life and more than 40 years of gamer (yes, I started playing games at seven at game shops with sloping boards pinballs and arcades).