Hallo, I'm interested in knowing which steam games have some kind of additional drm protection that limits somehow the maximum number of activations of that game.
I have many downloaded games in my pc and since it has symptoms of possible failure I want to delete and deauthorize the ones that can have limitations on further downloads and try to get back a +1 to the activation count.
I tried some searching around and I found https://pcgamingwiki.com/wiki/The_Big_List_of_3rd_Party_DRM_on_Steam.
It is quite big and it's not clear to me which games is better to delete (for instance I would not delete the GFWL games because I'm not sure if I would be able to activate them again and they seem to have many activations attached; securom or tages seem instead good candidates).
I'd appreciate some guidance in underlining the games that are known to have the least activations available and thus more "sensitive", pointing out in that list the most relevant games/drm type/publisher. I'm mostly concerned by: Ubisoft/Uplay, Codemasters, EA, Denuvo antitamper, Securom from the linked page (i have many games from those and I can't understand well the limitation).
Thanks in advance :)

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Let me know if you find out!!!

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Check under the hardware-based DRM section on that page. Only games that have hardware based DRM are able to limit your activations, and it's a pretty short list. And even of those most don't have limited activations. It is listed under each type of DRM if it has activation limitations or not.

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Tages is a limited DRM. I actually had to call that company a couple of a years ago to get them reactivate my "Chronicles of Riddick" Lol. I think that game had a 3 activation limit. They gave me unlimited activations after the call.

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X-Blades

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