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Originally Posted by mjfur
1. If CoD uses/has STEAM will the game be loaded on my hard drive or on a STEAM server somewhere?
2. If CoD uses/has STEAM will I need an internet connection to fly single player missions?
3. If STEAM goes out of business or breaks down will I still have CoD to fly?
4. Who, what, where is a DRM? How does this affect me?
5. I currently have a pre-order in with UBI (USA), should I keep it or cancel it and get the game somewhere else.
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1. It will be loaded on your hard-drive like IL-2 is now, but it will be located in a folder within your Steam installation.
2. No, but you will need an internet connection to do a once-off online activation of your Steam account. From there, you can choose to run all your Steam games off-line.
3. If Steam breaks down (at their end, not on your computer), which is highly unlikely, yes you will still have your game installed and be able to play it offline. If Steam goes out of business, which is also highly unlikely to happen in the foreseeable future, you will probably still be able to play your games offline, but nobody knows for sure.
4. DRM stands for Digital Rights Management, also known as copyright enforcement. Generally speaking it's there to prevent unlawful copying of your games. DRM takes many forms. In the case of Cliffs Of Dover, it will be implemented by having you contact a company online and giving them a code that's issued to you when you buy the game. This unique code will associate your copy of the game with unique attributes of your computer and prevent you or anyone else from using copies of your copy of the game on other computers. Installing and activating your game to be played through your Steam account will also act as a similar form of DRM, so there will actually two DRM systems in place.
5. Wait and see. As far as we know all versions of the game will be the same no matter where you get them from. The only advantage in having the game on a retail DVD is that you probably won't have to download it like you would with a digital delivery version. Nobody knows at the moment whether there will be a delay between delivery of the disk versions in different regions, or between delivery of the disk versions and availability of the downloadable versions.
I hope that helps.