RejZoR's little secrets

I'm asking myself, where is this heading? Almost every game released today includes this so hated DRM thing from SecuROM.
Developers and publishers try to show DRM as something wonderful that actually protects their intelectual property and somehow makes users happy as a puppy. But does it? Well, at this exact point i kinda lost the track.
This incredible DRM is suppose to stop pirates. But how come all these DRM infested (yeah infested) games show up on torrent sites 1 day after release or even worse, few days before release in my region.
That happened to BioShock, that happened Warhead, that happened to Spore and even brand new Red Alert 3.
"Nice" track record of protection efficiency i must say...
Thats like hoping a kevlar vest will protect your from a nuclear bomb blast at 10m distance lol...

They also advertise that this wonderful DRM allows users to play games without DVD in the optical drive.
Oh, great. After 15 years of using discs in my optical drive, this is really a god send feature. Khm...
Sure it's an ok feature but is it worth the other negative things? I think it's not.

First thing was the obvious one.
It clearly doesn't protect anything as pirated versions show up the very same moment the games are released.
How does this actually help me as a legal customer? It doesn't. At all. I'm limited to a very lame measured activations (yey, some offer revoke feature but thats just not it), i cannot transfer to another PC and usually only i am allowed to play it. Do we also buy 4 cars if there are 4 members in the family? No, we don't. But they expect us to buy 4 games in same case? I sure hope they don't expect that, because not a single sane person would do that. If i play it my brother/sister can't play it. But when they do, i can't. So where exactly is the problem?
This part used to work just fine with a simple CD/DVD check that doesn't require stupid activation and CD/DVD key prevented from same game to be played simultaneously on the internet.

Now lets look from the other point of view. We head to a torrent site and download the game.
DRM was clearly ineffective as we just downloaded the "protected" game. Do we have to worry about activation limit? No. We don't have to use DVD in the drive anyway. We don't have to worry about possible complications with activations. We don't have to worry if activation servers will still be up and running 5 or 10 years later (yeah some ppl actually play these games after so long, and yes that also includes me). I also don't have to worry if publisher will be willing to provide a patch to remove this protection.
We don't have to worry if activation (or shall i say it's protection low level drivers) is going to work on some new OS that will be released every 3 years (Windows).

We don't have to worry about any of these problems and some more, not mentioned here.
So, you buy the game and the result is a disc thats not even allowed to be used as pizza cutter. Or you simply download it from a torrent site and don't have to worry about anything except how you're going to beat that game level...

Are developers and publishers really that blind, they can't see the obvious?
How is some crippled software going to encourage users to buy originals instead warez versions?
This question keeps on rolling through my head. And the answer is always missing there...

Why don't they just save the money they spend on these inefficient protections and spend it on, i don't know, gameplay innovations and research, advertisement, special promotions to increase sales. There are loads of more important things than this useless DRM. I mean this one is painfully obvious.
Hell, pay that extra that would otherwise go for crappy DRM to your programmers and artists so they'll work even better!

But then again, people WILL pay for software if they think it's good. And they do. Many of them. Lots of them. Even i do! But not beacuse DRM is preventing me from getting pirated version.
No, it's because i think developers deserve to be payed for a good job they've done.
And some have done a really great job. If you can find your product on picture below you did an excellent job there... even though some include this DRM. I'd really prefer those games without it... but hell i had no choice. I still rethink buying of DRM games thoroughly. And i dropped many off them from my "to buy" list just because of DRM. Red Alert 3 for example is one of them. And as you can see i like C&C series quite a lot...


Happy bunch of games i'd pay for anytime. Excluding Spore which got there by mistake lol...