It's official that Ubisoft is the Publisher. Ubi_Marc, Admin of German IL2 Forum said it is a leak and they wanted to announce it next week. Also he said DRM its just for activation!

http://forums-de.ubi.com/eve/forums/...409#9571002409

Maybe we just have a Spitfire Manual, because as I read here

http://www.gbase.ch/Global/news/IL-2...992/47724.html

that solo campaign ist just playing on British side.

We are not going to get a printed manual for every aircraft that is flyable.

Thanks DoorGunner -
-It looks like the real thing

http://www.gbase.ch/uploads/ci/cbild...ver_113507.jpg

http://www.gbase.ch/uploads/ci/cbild...ver_113506.jpg

DRM just for activation is awesome news, I just hope that as a community we pay Oleg back by making sure we all buy it and do not tolerate those who use pirated versions to play with us online as was the case with many IL2 players :(

Yer, but activation how often?
You'll exscuse me if I have little trust for Ubisoft. (SilentHunter1,2,3 and 4 fan)

Just the once after an install I'd guess, much like any game with a key, you enter the key, game goes online to check it's not blacklisted and is valid, game activates and that the job done.

With any luck it's simply Steam they're talking about and nothing on top of that (Ubi recently released RUSE with Steam as the only DRM, so I was mildly optimistic they'd do the same here).

Deutsche SoW forum FTW :)

:grin:!!!

I'd prefer to create an account or something similar, or some could steal your key