Sorry guys, you are seriously mistaken here.
I don't think DD is a conspiracy, but it IS a customer rip-off. Let me explain in detail why I will never ever sign in a DD service or a payed online game.
(On a sidenote: I'd love to play The last Remnant, because I like both Western and JRPGs, but I cannot, because I have to install Steam to play it. I don't know why the publisher is unable to produce a working, non-inversive authentification tool, like say telefone (Two Worlds) or even online (Mass Effect). I can't sell the game, though, because I'm a collector)
1. Games are about games, like music is about music. Not true. Three years ago there had been an exhibition about record cover art from the 1920s to 1980s in our local Frank Gehry designed Art museum. The exhibition made something perfectly clear: the impact of music as a form of art, as an expression of its time and as a driving force of social development can not be divided from its presentation, e. g. lyrics, cover art, liner notes etc. If you do so, you could also start judging Once upon a Time in America by its dialogues only and not consider image composition or the score.
Retail boxes are an integral part of video and computer games. Destroying them means destroying the art form.
2. Games are cheaper online. Not true. Mostly games are sold for the same price here in Germany, no matter if online or retail. This is massively criticised in the media, but still it stands true.
3. The haptic element is unimportant. Not true. I work with 16 to 25 year old students mostly, who use illegal movie streaming services all the time. I argue with them that they steal copyrighted property and suggest using legal services. They always deny that with one explanation: "Why should I pay for s.th. that I can obtain for free and with no real threat of being punished?" - The interesting fact is that they DO pay for movies at the cinema (nowadays it's even more expansive than buying DVDs), because they get "something more".
The physical copy of a game that I can touch, the box, the manual and the cloth map, the figurine and such, those are "something more" that the industry should focus on, because people are ready to pay for this.
These are the three most important reasons that I could think of and, yes I am for real.