hat said, this DRM scheme comes across as awfully heavy-handed and annoying.
Piracy is not killing PC Gaming. It's DRM that is killing PC Gaming.
I walked into EB Games on the week end and I had to look really hard to see where the PC Gaming section was located. They were just about wall to wall with 360/PS3/Wii/DS/PSP products. The PC gaming products where tucked right up in the back corner.
Software piracy has been around for a long time. However the Devs where still turning out the games.
DRM only been out for about 2-3 years now and because of that, it's killing off the PC Gaming market. The honest buyer is getting treated like a criminal where the pirates are getting way with cracking the DRM methods.