And wait until the first massive sales 3d arcade game uses this system , out of the niche market the protection is more vulnerable.
( a lot of hardcore gamers, teams, crackers, searching for a cure)

March 16, Assassin Creed 2. 'nuff said. :haha:

If ROF is cracked, then the ONLY argument in favor of OSP is gone.

O_o and why?

If I'm not wrong, "steam only games" can be also purchased through the "classic" dvd-release, and if not they only need to be dowloaded once (then you can make backups).
Furthermore a single player can be played in offline mode (no internet connection).
Steam remains a great service, and way above this UBI crap.

PS: I noticed SH V isn't available on steam yet, so I guess the UBI drm crap will be the only option available. Another ingenious decision by Ubisoft, congrats :)

I bought an ETW DVD, and I had to load steam just to install it.

If I was less forum savvy (I had found the modding forums before I even bought it) I'd have been tearing my hair out to install it properly (it just crashes on install and no where tells you to install steam first, and in fact, even that doesn't work, it tries to DL the whole thing).

Major PITA, frankly.

Then the mod that makes it worth playing got nuked by an auto-update that was for some add-on I don't even have. So far my only Steam experience has been crap, frankly.