[the8472]

Ok, this is even more invasive than my worst experience and and also worse than some practices that already received backlash (such as persisting after the game closed, as previously mentioned). I wonder why game companies come to so different conclusions about the "need" for such things. Are their games easier to exploit and they just try to paper over it? Or is money involved, raising stakes?

If they go further we'll end up with closed, console-like systems (secure boot only with microsoft's key, only signed apps allowed). And of course DRM vendors would follow their footsteps.