It's the most backwards assed system I can think of. Why do we as an industry still pretend DRM is worth a damn?

I ended up having to pirate it in addition to buying it in order to play it the first few weeks. They eventually released a patch, but by then I had been playing the game for weeks without another problem and there was no way I was risking their countermeasures.

At the time, I was pissed that I spent my good money and they screwed me like that, and even denied the problem for weeks before fixing it.