Its DRM like this that has prevented me from buying several games I enjoyed as well. I was gonna buy BioShock till I heard about the activations - even over Steam - I have bought the game, why should I not be allowed to install it as many times as I please, technically, no, it is my property.
A fine example as well of DRM would be Starforce, which really annoyed me when I had to install it to play Funcom/Empire's Dreamfall: The Longest Journey. Ubisoft learnt from its mistakes with Starforce (albeit at first only released Starforce "Lite") and eventually removed it from their products. Another example lets bring up is the The Witcher, its protection was so **** retentive that it would ignore SATA DVD drives.
The point is DRM screws people over into products they invest their money into. I was incredibly excited about the Mass Effect PC port until I saw this copy protection.
Of course, with most developers its a vicious circle of "we'll stop pirating your games when you stop putting in copy protection, "we'll stop putting copy protection in our games when you stop pirating". As for the registering online, as of past that was a completely optional choice. Why force it upon us now? If it wasn't because of the activation limitations. Yes. I'd probably have no issue with registering online.
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