

If it were up to the publishers they would force us to give them money against our will. They would shun people for choosing not to buy their games the way they shun people for pirating. Thankfully the first one is illegal and the second one is just so asinine and unreasonable that any publisher who did it would lose all respect for it. But that doesn’t mean they wouldn’t want these things if they could get away with it. These publishers are way more evil and greedy than many of us really give them credit for.
Maybe it will someday, if they think it’ll make cracking harder or that there was something to gain from Windows lock-in they’d do it.