A lot of people claim that Fallout 3 requires GFWL, but that's not actually true. I bought the "Game of the Year" version of it last year and it only uses a disc-check. Hell, that copy protection only affects the game's launcher, because if you start the game's .exe file directly from the directory, it never asks for the disc.

According to ogdb.eu, all of the Call of Duty games before Modern Warfare 2 only used disc-checks and sometimes serial keys.

Same with Bloodlines. The retail versions relied on disc-checks, but apparently, some of the later re-releases removed the copy protection altogether.

Well, Steam (and, for the most part, DRM in video games) debuted with HL2.

Diablo 3

I got Fallout 3 Goty, Hitman 1-3 and Vampire the Masquerade - Bloodlines for a long time now and they are all great and without evil DRM.
If you start Fallout 3 with the Fallout Mod Manager, it won't even ask for the CD/DVD and since this game needs some mods to be way more fun, you should do this anyway.
Hitman was never a problem and it's available at Gog.com.
Bloodlines is one of the best RPGs ever made and you can see, that's it's from guys that were behind the great Fallout 1. The company went bankrupt and therefore never really finished the game the way it was meant to be (multiplayer, more nonlinear story, etc...) but with the community patches and the widescreen mod, it's not buggy at all imho.

I really don't care about DRM as long as it does not hinder my ability to play. That said, there hasn't been a game I've not bought because of drm. If I want to play a game, I don't care what DRM it has.

And yes, I do like the new sim city and Diablo 3, bought both at launch.

But the real question is did you get to play them at launch? If you did for both you are damn lucky

Well, I didn't play D3 at launch, only a few days after and it worked. I know there were problems when it came out, and I am in no way defending always-online DRM.

Sim City worked like a charm, though.

- Portal
- Fallen Enchantress
- Bioshock
- Civilization 5
- Skyrim
- Crusader Kings II
- Magicka
- Supreme Commander

and probably others that I forgot. However, my backlog of DRM free games is so huge, that I'm not really mad, it simplifies the decision of not buying these games and adding them to the backlog, saving me money.

I was looking for something else and I came across this. I think it belongs in this thread. :D

Oh very good:)

Boycotted:
Everything Valve- or Steam-exclusive (Half-Life 2, Total War series from Napoleon onwards, Civilization V, Skyrim, Risen 2, recent Paradox titles, TalismanDE)
Everything from EA since Dragon Age: Awakenings (Mass Effect series, Dragon Age 2)
Everything from 2K games (Bioforge series)
Everything from Ubisoft from Far Cry 2 onwards (Assassin's Creed series, picked up FC2 and AC1 on GOG though, )
Everything from Blizzard (Starcraft 2, Diablo 3)
Everything from Stardock since GalCiv 2 (more than $300-worth here, including Object Desktop renewals, other desktop enhancements, GC expansion packs, Fallen Enchantress and other games)
Mount and Blade
Two Worlds series (until they were released on GOG)
Dream Aquarium

plus loads of others I can't remember... ;)

Any game with constant online DRM, any game with install and/or activation limits/hardware authentication, any game that requires GFWL, any game that requires UPlay, any game that requires Origin.

Huge thanks to the following (I hope all of you read this): Klumpen0815, InfraSuperman, NoNewTaleToTell, grunthos64.

I was mostly concerned because it seems I may have heard Vampire and Fallout had Securom and I saw a PAL version of a collection with the first four Hitman games on Amazon for half the price you can get them here.

I've stopped buying anything on the Steam DRM platform. Fuck Steam the walled-garden DRM platform.

DRM free, and I won't back down.

ANNO 2070

Luckily based on the demo of 2070 I greatly prefer ANNO 1404 which has the DRM patched out. 2070 was still a good game (since it's ANNO after all), and maybe they'll remove the DRM someday so I can buy it.