Rockstar Games
During the month of October 2019 with the launch of "Rockstar Games Launcher", the single player story mode for the game "Grand Theft Auto V" sold and distributed through "Steam" required activation via the internet every time during the game startup process, whereas previously the game required periodic activation every few days. Whether this was intentional or defective by design due to the effect of implementing "Rockstar Games Launcher" as an extra layer of DRM for the game is unclear, neither the game developer and publisher "Rockstar Games", or the game distributor "Valve" has publicly acknowledged or commentated on the change in status of the DRM. On the 5th of November 2019 "Rockstar Games" rolled out an update to the "Rockstar Games Launcher" which reverted the DRM status of "Grand Theft Auto V" from Always-on DRM back to its previous periodic activation implementation.