Going back in time, there was some talk about online activation or requirement for The Sims 2 expansion (Bon Voyage, I recall) and I never bought the last ones. I never actually checked what became of the discs, and I did only look what the expansions were within the last few years. I want them. DRM free. :(

These days, or really, since, I haven't much followed PC gaming. Been buying few things, I got unpleasantly surprised twice over time because I did not research. Eventually it became to just not buying new games anymore, just play what I already have. Including buying them again in here.

I boycott most mainstream FPS games these days like Call of Duty, Battlefield, Wolfenstein etc.
I boycott Ubisoft. Haven't bought a Ubisoft game since 2012.
I boycott EA. Haven't bought a EA game since 2012.
I boycott any games requiring the unnecessary Denuvo DRM.

Literally every game with DRM. Not that I'd've bought all of them, but there are quite a few.

I'm not sure I'd call it a boycott but I was waiting for Celeste to release on GOG in order to play it. So much time has passed now however, that I'm not sure I'd buy it even if it did release on GOG.

Or Games for Windows Live... services die even if the company might be still around.

I don't think a giant like Steam might go "dead by market" anytime soon. I think the "dead by legal issues" is the greater risk. If someone finds a way to convince a court that something isn't right there (one able patent troll with determination...)

I am proud to boycott any game with DRM, so my list would be a long one. I am mostly boycotting Square-Enix (Final Fantasy and Dragon Quest games) as well as the Crash and Spyro Trilogies. The only exception I make when buying games outside of GOG would be Nintendo Handheld games. I don't believe physical media counts as DRM, even if you do have to buy another copy if it breaks. Unfortunately there are too many companies out there that still believe that DRM actually works. It honestly doesn't bother me that much if I have to wait longer for a game to be released on GOG.com. It's worth the wait.

Personally, I hate games that need to connect to a server even if I just want to play it alone. It's not even that it has co-op features but that the moment those servers are down, the game will become unplayable.

I've just had a look at the steam store page and don't see Denuvo mentioned on it under the drm part (I dont recall the two recent console ports of Bayonetta or Vanquish having denuvo (I might be wrong though)).

I can confirm that Bayonetta and Vanquish don't use Denuvo. If it's not mentioned, it's probably the same for Catherine (even though there are Denuvo games for which Denuvo is not reported on the store page, like MGSV).

Same feeling.

I have stopped buying console games with an always online system, it’s crossed my mind I wont be able to play my favourite old games when the servers go down eventually, that might be cutting off my nose to spite my face but I don’t want to support that practice by publishers. So far I’m ignoring Destiny 2, The Division 2 and Anthem for this reason. What a surprise they’re published by Activision, Ubisoft and EA.

I’d love to ditch Steam for GOG entirely but I’m loving Half Life and Counter Strike too much right now.

I'm not really boycotting any games, I'm just boycotting the DRM :) If the games with DRM becomes DRM-free in the future I will buy them if they are of interest to me :)

Last time I bought a game with (sadly very invasive) DRM it ended up costing me too much money to fix my broken computer, but worst was the very long time researching how to get rid of whatever it had done inside my computer.

The only thing DRM does is to punish paying customers for legally buying the game! Pirates get the game not only for free, but clean from DRM as well, so DRM has no use except to hurt the people who gives them money.

You can get Celeste at itch.io, and it appears to be DRM-free there.

For me, Dragon Quest 11 is currently at the bottom of my list of games to emulate eventually (some 3DS games, like Bravely Default and later Etrian Odyssey, are above it); this way I might be able to emulate the 3DS or Switch versions.

I know that being able to emulate the game in English is probably a long way off, but there is progress being made (apparently there's a Switch emulator, but there are very few, if any, games that are playable on it), and it may be a long time before I reach the point of wanting to play it. (The fact that DQ11 seems to take after DQ8, perhaps my least favorite game in the series, rather than 3, 6, or 9, is another factor that makes me less interested in the game.)

(Of course, if by some miracle the PC version gets released DRM-free, I might consider it then.)

By the way, why haven't there been more indie games that copy Dragon Quest? I would like to have some to play. (Maybe I'll have to make that Dragon Quest clone with queer characters someday.)

I've also been sort of boycotting (or girlcotting) those games, but for other reasons.

The Final Fantasy series took a turn I didn't like starting with Final Fantasy 6, so the only later game in the series (not counting remakes) that I bought for myself is FF9. (My parents bought FF7PC, so that's how I played that unstable version of that game.)

For Dragon Quest, I didn't get Dragon Quest Monsters Joker 2 because SE decided to localize only the original version despite the Professional version being out in Japan. I could also point out that Dragon Quest 8 was a bit of a disappointment (though not as bad as FF7), though DQ9 at least was better. (I still wonder why, after having 2 games that allow you to make the main character female, why all but one later game in the series (I don't count DQ10 as being in the series, same with FF11 and FF14 in their respective series) onoy let you play as a male character.)

As for physical copies and my anti-DRM stance, I consider physical copies allowable provided that:
* There isn't any effective copy protection.
* There is no online connection.
* The platform that the games are on does not support region locking or online DRM. (The console games I bought came before I stopped supporting region-locked consoles, while the last handeld I have, the DS Lite, came before Nintendo bought DRM-ed digital downloads to their portable games.)

Of note, I decided that the NES Classic Edition was acceptable (though I wish it had Earthbound Beginnings, so I could get a legal copy of the game). On the other hand, a physical copy of a game on a handheld that has a DRM-ed online store is not OK by my rules, even if the DRM doesn't apply to the physical copy.

Verb "boycott" refers to a person who is boycotted, not a person who is boycotting. Also, it's based on a proper noun - name Boycott.

I don't buy any NEW game if it has DRM of any kind (be it 'passive' like Steam or 'active' like Devuno etc). I fully support what GOG has been about from the begining and let my wallet do the talking in that.

I don't play any OLD game if it has DRM. I use era-specific DRM removal tools and sometimes NO-CD cracks if forced to.

I am 100% happy to pay for my games, as has been the case through my 20 odd years as a gamer, but i'm never happy to be treated poorly after paying for the game. I've had hardware and software break from game DRM in the past, so i just don't do it these days.