If publishers didn't care about potential lost sales, DRM wouldn't exist in the first place.

Yes, but do you honestly think that if 1000 or even 10,000 gamers boycotted theSims3 that EA would notice? Not a chance in hell, my friend. DRM (in a publushers mind, with all it stats and poll numbers, surveys and demographics) is used to combat mass piracy, not some John Doe Gamer that wants to make a copy so him and his friend can co-op. BitTorrent scares game publishers, much like the RIAA. And the music industry's answer to piracy is slowly beginning to take hold over here with micropayments and DLC. You want a song (legally), $.99. You want DLC, $5.00...
My point was that nowadays there is no way a single gamer or group of gamers are going to change the thinking of a big publisher like EA by just not buying a game. You're fooling only yourself and you're missing out on some good stuff while you're at it...

=-Rigs-=