I love steam - works great. Good MP choice 1C.

Bad thread title is bad tho.

The faq has not been further clarified as of yet, but it does seem to be indicating that Steam is required. Hopefully we'll know for certain soon.

It is not spy or malware that is factually incorrect.

You are monitored in every aspect of your life by far more sinister and intrusive elements than Steam. Realistically, you've nothing to fear from it. For instance, the Steam hardware surveys are tremendous - why would you worry about that? You can of course opt out of them.

here's the last one: http://store.steampowered.com/hwsurvey

I personally adore SteamWorks. Pre-ordered IL-2:CoD a week ago from a physical store. Hoping it will allow me to register the product code when it arrives so I can handle the logistics through there instead of installing from discs or UBI's own download service.

I love steam.
I have 81 games on steam.
Yes it sucked when Half life 2 launched. But that is long ago.
Yes it sucked a bit when call of duty black ops launched, but what do you expect when 80.000 users try do download the game? (Yes the install cd with data on it did nothing. Mistake in the installer. So almost all of the 80.000 users downloaded the whole game tru steam instead of installing the game from the dvd and then downloading the decrypt stuff from steam.

By the way the installer problem was not a problem cause by steam.
Activision made the same mistake in the installer of call of duty modern warfare 2. So they used the exact same installer (code) for CoD Black ops.

I love Steam, it helps me remove stamps for my collection.

Blogs been updated,you will need steam for offline play as well...

Steam has a offline mode.
And who cares this day and age?
My internet connection is always ON. So whenever one of my pc's is turned on its online.
All people i know also have that.

After reading this, it looks like the boxed version is little more than a single coin tossed at Oleg and team:

http://www.mcvuk.com/features/808/OP...etail-vs-Steam