In some cases DRM hinders performance of the game . Recently Forza Horizon 3 had micro stuttering and outright frame drops because the DRM had to decrypt scenery files on the go , so you ' re doing 100 mph and it ' s frame skipping because of unnecessary work load . Other examples are games like the new Hitman which despite being a single player game , require an always on connection . Players reported that they may be in the middle of a level and get kicked off because Square Enix servers went down . Ubisoft also used to employ similar drm in the assassin ' s creed 2 era of games where the screen would just go black of the DRM couldn ' t contact the servers . Pirated versions didn ' t have this problem . They also used to limit the number of times you could activate the game , so some people who upgraded or had to reinstallrepair their computer found the game wouldn ' t activate and they couldn ' t play their $ 60 purchase . In these cases where drm has been cracked by pirating , people argue that people who paid for the game are getting a worse experience than those who pirate the game . Considering most games are available and cracked on or near release , those who are against DRM say you paid for the game and should be able to play unrestricted since the DRM is not effective . On a personal note as someone who had published digital content and seen it pirated , I think a basic level of authentication is fine , like a one time CDKey activation for single player games . Multiplayer games have to be online anyway and the servers aren ' t going to let you play without a genuine game , so that problem solves itself . Hope this helps .