Running out of games to buy

Update (2011-12-14):  The way things are looking, STALKER 2 might finally include no "always connected" DRM protection at all. The dust is still setting, but GSC seems to have closed its offices. A sad day for Ukranian game developers and players all around, for sure. Please, guys, if you have the opportunity to finish the game, respect your clients and protect the game in a sane way.

Original post:

Today I have learnt that the next chapter in the STALKER (no more s.t.o.p.s., please) series will come with a little present: DRM requiring constant internet connection. Another thing I've learnt today is that I will not play that game. And that realization hurts, because I am a huge STALKER fan. I own the trilogy: Shadow of Chernobyl, Clear Sky and Call of Pripyat. The last two, I bought them on release date, and was proud of having supported GSC.
Why not buy STALKER 2? I will not accept been treated like a criminal by default, and I have already been bitten by this DRM stupidity. Clear Sky in Western Europe was distributed by Deep Silver, who slapped TAGES into it. TAGES, I found out, is incompatible with my DVD reader, and what did Deep Silver's support recommend? Get a new DVD. Haven't bought a Deep Silver product since, the same as I do with any company who betrays my trust.

But, sadly, during the last years my boycott list has grown non-stop. The videogame industry is becoming more and more unfriendly to its clients, constantly creating barriers between games and players: DRM, online passes, activations and even DRMed save games. The joy of playing is gone, replaced by the absurd requirement of registering, activating, checking the internet, writing codes and what not.
CEOs of the world: I am tired of all this. I don't see the point in giving money to your companies, when you only think of ways to make me pay full-price and give as little as you can in return. I refuse to ask for permission to play my games and I sure don't like having to rely on your servers, either.

After more than a decade of faithfully buying several games per month, I find my options limited, but not for lack of promising games, but for an excess of stupidity in the industry. I've gone from buying 3-4 games a month, even if I had no time to play them, to 1 or 2, with luck. And that average only holds because of independent developers and Good Old Games. For me videogame news are just a list of games I will not play, either because I am boycotting the company as a whole (Ubisoft), or because I find the security measures excesive (all the rest). And you read it right: not play. I won't even bother pirating the game, because I talk a lot about what I play to friends and acquaintances, and I will not give free advertisement to Ubisoft and company. You are not getting even an indirect sale from me.
Once DRM is removed, as happened with Mirror's Edge and Mass Effect, I'll gladly buy the game. But, most probably, by then I've already lost interest in the game and the publisher will have lost a sale.

Nowadays PC gaming is almost completely lost to me, and I fear that Valve's intentions to integrate Steamworks into PS3 releases will bring console games to the ground, too, as online passes are starting to do. If things keep going this way, I'll have to forget about playing, and bring books and movies back as my main hobbies.

And I won't feel sorry for any of the developers who forced me out of gaming.