Agreed. But what kind of backlash would a publisher get if they announced one day they had decided to simply stop producing PC games? The internet would be screaming in 30seconds flat and the negative press and badwill would be enormous. It's not worth that kind of publicity, therefore something like DRM which pisses people off but is a fight against pirates and other enemies of the industry can be used instead.



Exactly. That is my point, games publishers would far rather sell console versions, bigger profits, less hastle from vocal minority, much harder to pirate as you need to mod chip etc.



PC users are more aware of what is running on their PC and what it is doing. So if a trojan in disguise of DRM or anti-cheating software is installed they know about it pretty fast, they know what it does, they know how to stop it if they so choose, and it's all over the web in a day. If a game mutliplayer game uses resources to run a server rather than using a company server, they know it and look for the best PCs to run this etc. Your average console user sticks the game in plays, has no idea what data is collected, how it is used, never considers that the companies can modify with their property, until something like the xbox chip zapping comes to light.



Console = higher profits, less piracy. The vast majority of publishers would rather people play on console than PC. Throw in that every study i've seen shows that DRM on pc games not only fails to stop piracy, but actually increases it and leads to the alienation of legitimate customers like myself...and why are they doing it?

Maybe it's not to destroy PC gaming, but to destroy non=online bought/played PC gaming. The lack of shelf space given to PC games these days would be a testament to it's falling market share. Publishers are all about online transactions, micro transactions and copying the WoW model these days, and that can be a sad thing for single player gaming.