"We don't want people to pirate this game, so we're going to take a bunch of features out of it" Anti-piracy measures, WITHOUT FAIL, only end up hurting everything. It makes gamers angry and thus "I'm not gonna pay for this crap, I'll just pirate it" even to the point where people who WOULD have bought it change their mind and just pirate it because the devs are bastardizing the game to "combat piracy".