The brewers would probably do a better job than steam.

Thats more like it, I seriously doubt Steam has anything to do with any of the problems we are observing at present.

Another subject like the retail version not being linked to Steam :-P

Lol, true :grin:

In all honesty though, i think this is a very good compromise. If i want Steam integration, i buy from Steam and get what i want. If i don't want to use Steam, i buy a boxed edition from a retailer and i'm good to go.

Options are there, people can choose, everyone is happy. I just wish we knew that from the get go, it would have saved me a lot of smashing against brick walls arguing with people who though lack of options and forcing everyone to the same platform was going to be good for the game :-P

Except for Gimpymoo. :)

I would be tempted to have one of my mates across the pond get a boxed version for me so I could have it a bit early, but besides the uncertainty of the whole region locking thing, there's the whole "England pays half again what everyone else does" problem. Makes me laugh that we're going apoplectic over gas approaching $4 a Gallon here.

I'll have to wait for others get the DVD version and verify whether this is true or not. It makes sense that if they have online activation through solidshield that they wouldn't need a second activation via steam too. So this hopefully turns out to be true.