This could be intended to settle a disagreement between management people who don't see the trend of gamers finally getting fed up with the bullshit and others who don't call the shots but do have a finger on the pulse (or even feel that way themselves and know they aren't alone).

I'd bet good money there's plenty of developers and other gamers involved with a bunch of these companies watching decisions being made with horror.

Actually I bet management only allowed this to be a poll because they did notice the trend of gamers getting fed up and previous cash cows running dry, but they needed a poll because they don't want to believe that the thing they thought was the best way to fight piracy was hated by people who would otherwise be happy to spend money on it.

I always keep thinking back to a piece of software that took weeks to get running at a job where we were development partners and then when I decided I wanted to use it with a personal project at home, I had a pirated copy running within hours. All the DRM stuff just made it into a pain for legit users while those using pirated copies never even saw that after it was cracked.

And denuvo doesn't even stop sucking once you get it running the first time, it will be wasting CPU cycles and memory bandwidth until the publisher decides it's not worth paying the license fee for anymore.

This is back to the thing where a AAA game studio ignores what they know about their audience and apologizes to investors later.

I hope that's not what's happening here, but I won't hold my breath.

That's pretty sad when you have to pirate a game just to make it playable. I probably shouldn't admit to having cracked games in the past for this reason. Yarrr!