DRM or no you cannot play the game you paid for

Many many years ago i bought a copy of half life 2 and it was one of the worst experiences i ever had on the pc. Not because of the game which is great but the time it took me to get to the stage of playing the thing.

At the time only had a 56k modem and of course with half life 2 you had to install STEAM which back then was a far different beast. I really do not know how long it took me from actually putting the disc in to actually playing the game but it was a long time and i was getting very annoyed.

Now i have to say if someone had said to me here is a pirate copy of the game on disc you just install and play i would have done it and justified it by saying i already paid for the thing.

Now many years later steam is far better (though now having broadband helps) but there many games where drm is a issue i heard the new dragons age inquisition caused a few problems and then we have the always online issues.

In the end drm affects the people who actually pay for the game make it much friendlier for example instead of having always online perhaps have it check into the servers once every week so if the servers are down you can still play it.